Darius Bell

Darius covers the most profitable line item in a monopoly's budget: the statehouse. His beat is how utilities convert the money on ratepayers' bills into political power — the lobbying, the dark-money campaigns, the friendly regulators — and what all of it buys. He treats the big corruption cases not as freak events but as the visible edge of an everyday practice, and he traces the funding chains behind the front groups that fight rooftop solar and public power. Every story names the amount, the vehicle, what it purchased, and the way to push back.