(Opinion) When it comes to promoting government corruption, Donald Trump, Democratic and Republican state lawmakers, and a disgraced former governor found common ground this week.
President Trump pardoned former Gov. John G. Rowland for two sets of felonies involving government corruption.
Meanwhile, legislators approved a law to weaken the state agency tasked with enforcing the clean-elections law Connecticut passed on a bipartisan basis following Rowland’s first conviction. Will the governor heed this week’s calls from good-government groups to veto the legislation?
That question is explored in the latest edition of the Independent’s opinionated vlog news summary, beamed directly from our assignment desk — er, compost heap — along with questions about ethical board games, firefighter safety, and mum’s-the-word newspapering. Click on the above video to check it out.