Listen "[Ep46] A Rat’s Long Tale: How a distribution facility proposal upended Middlebury"
Episode Synopsis
A Rat’s Long Tale: How a distribution facility proposal upended MiddleburyIn the 2023 rush to pass a new state budget, a “rat” was inserted into the budget implementer, one of those political favors that occupy a few lines of a bill nearly 1,000 pages long, often inserted without public notice or hearing in the last minute behind-the-scenes horse trading that eventually produces the budget. This particular budget rat, however, has a long tale: it concerned a proposed distribution center in the small, wealthy town of Middlebury. Read the full investigation: bit.ly/42UYoyrConnecticut Inside Investigator is a nonprofit newsroom on a mission to inform the people of Connecticut through investigative journalism and inspire the public through engaging stories. We envision a better Connecticut where corruption has been rooted out.
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