Ken Dixon

Mar 10, 2025 | energycentral.com | Jacqueline Thomas |Alex Putterman |Ken Dixon

Mar. 8—Last spring, the leader of the state panel that oversees energy companies in Connecticut was warned about a small electric company co-owned by state Sen. John Fonfara that months earlier had gone out of business.

Dec 3, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Ken Dixon

HARTFORD — Gov. Ned Lamont on Monday didn't exactly tip his hand on priorities for the next two-year budget, but he admitted that expanded child care and home ownership opportunities could be among his chief goals when the next legislature meets in January.

Oct 24, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Jacqueline Rabe Thomas |Ken Dixon

Legislative leaders on Thursday called the spending spelled out in a CT Insider investigation by the leader of the state's largest public college system "tone deaf" and "troubling" -- and announced they plan to open an independent probe into Chancellor Terrence Cheng's spending and benefits, ordered the college system to turn over all records of the leader's spending within 10 days and called on the system's governing board to freeze his ability to charge anything until records are released.

May 1, 2024 | ctinsider.com | Ken Dixon |Alex Wood

HARTFORD — Tuesday’s threat of a violent attack on the state Capitol came from a secured, possibly foreign-owned phone and was similar to threats phoned to at least four other states, Capitol police said Wednesday. “It’s pretty much untraceable,” Lt. Gregory Wimble, the State Capitol Police spokesman, said of the call, received by the Hartford Police Department around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday. “We knew we had nobody on the property,” Wimble said.