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Jon Lender @jonlender

ex-Hartford Courant reporter, wrote weekly Government Watch column at courant.com/politics/governm… Aqui lo tienes todo.

Joined November 2010
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Kevin Rennie: The mysterious firing of a CT state employee who serves the nation in a dangerous time courant.com/2026/04/18/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: The mysterious firing of a CT state employee who serves the nation in a dangerous time

Compare Diaz Rosario to Terrence Cheng, who is $440,000 Strategic Advisor to Connecticut State Colleges and Universities Board of Regents.

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Kevin Rennie: A hothouse of lust, rivalries and neglect of duties in a CT state building courant.com/2026/03/28/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: A hothouse of lust, rivalries and neglect of duties in a CT state building

Some of the people we trust with extraordinary authority over our lives use it to make a mess of their own.

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Kevin Rennie: Alleged sex scandal dismays CT state police, top state officials

Regrettably, state agencies do not have an encouraging record of investigating themselves when trouble arrives.

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Kevin Rennie: In CT, a fight against ‘surveillance creep’ that is spreading everywhere

We need not be relegated to spectators or inadvertent snitches. 

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Kevin Rennie: How a state trooper’s alleged act at a CT airport undermines confidence in the system

From the outside, threats to the agency’s professionalism don’t come from what they call each other, but from how they conduct themselves when vested with the vast authority a free people bestow on...

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25 Oct 2025
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Kevin Rennie: The mystery of a Greek passport belonging to a high-profile CT man convicted of crime

There is a passport somewhere that could allow him to gain entrance to the 27-nation European Union.

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12 Oct 2025
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Kevin Rennie: A sweet $2.6M CT contract and a list of approved contractors. A tangled web

They did not want to know then and they prefer to feign ignorance to action.

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Kevin Rennie: The last excruciating mile of the road to justice in Connecticut. Money at the center.

The trial will not resemble anything you see on television. This will be a workmanlike exercise that goes on for weeks.

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27 Sep 2025
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Kevin Rennie: CT’s colossal embarrassment and months of fruitless trouble

Some months can seem like each headache is interrupted by a worse one in the state’s scramble.

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22 Sep 2025
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Kevin Rennie: Why we must not end the investigation into a sordid CT matter

In the months that followed the initiation of litigation, state officials ridiculed the claims of unfair treatment.

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Kevin Rennie: Who will protect you from the creeping menace of traffic cameras? courant.com/2025/09/06/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: There’s a creeping menace in Connecticut. The question is about who will protect you

We can do something to show we are paying attention and are willing to act.

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28 Jun 2025
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CT top utility regulator admits controversial text messages at center of court case deleted

The Courant first reported on the text message exchange in February and since then the utilities have been trying to obtain the draft referred to by Gillett

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28 Jun 2025
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Kevin Rennie: The strange path of a perilous Connecticut scandal

We have now entered a perilous phase in the search for a credible explanation.

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11 Apr 2025
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Rennie: Firing range used by CT state police shut down due to high lead levels in troopers

That it has been detected now, 25 years into the 21st century is a gross dereliction of the most basic safety standards and obligations to law enforcement officers. 

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10 Apr 2025
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Rennie: Firing range used by CT state police shut down due to high lead levels in troopers

That it has been detected now, 25 years into the 21st century is a gross dereliction of the most basic safety standards and obligations to law enforcement officers. 

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Kevin Rennie: The answers Connecticut officials won’t give about a grand jury

The public has a right to know. No amount of well-known self-regard should immunize anyone from the public’s interest.

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13 Feb 2025
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PURA chief’s confirmation for second term uncertain as CT lawmakers consider newly released text...

Legislative sources said her committee appearance has been postponed while Lamont and political allies work to build a majority on the committee.

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Kevin Rennie: Why the CT legislature’s nominations committee is next electricity cost battleground

Connecticut’s governor has been an impediment to increased use of natural gas generating plants, the only short term solution. Offshore wind power plans have gone from a mess to a shambles.

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Kevin Rennie: Why noxious nostalgia for CT's deficits and tax increases is arising at worst time courant.com/2025/01/11/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: Why noxious nostalgia for CT’s deficits and tax increases is arising at worst time

A president whose favorite Bible verse is “an eye for an eye” will govern with a broad definition of retribution. States like Connecticut need to brace themselves.

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Kevin Rennie: An award can recognize the enduring power of Connecticut cronyism in politics courant.com/2025/01/04/kevin…

Kevin Rennie: An award can recognize the enduring power of Connecticut cronyism in politics

We continue to dwell in a dark age of cynicism that will grow worse in many ways in the next four years.

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