Enter to win: Connecticut Flower & Garden Show

Enter to win: Connecticut Flower & Garden Show

The 43rd Annual Connecticut Flower & Garden Show comes to the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford on February 20-23, 2025. For show and ticket information, visit www.CTFlowerShow.com

Enter to win 4 single day passes valid for any one day.

Contest open to Connecticut residents only. Must be at least 18 years of age or older to enter. One entry per person. Duplicate entries will be discarded.

Melissa in the Morning: What’s the Deal with Greenland?

Melissa in the Morning: What’s the Deal with Greenland?

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to make Greenland part of the United States. National security educator, Rob Sanders, shared that this purchase proposal is not the first of its kind by a president and what acquiring the island would mean for America.

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Melissa in the Morning: Avoid Tax Fraud

Melissa in the Morning: Avoid Tax Fraud

The January 31st deadline is coming up for employers to get their W-2 forms in. Ahead of the tax season, what steps should employees take to avoid fraud? We asked Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner, Bryan Cafferelii, and also details on an upcoming ‘Home Buying/Selling’ Seminar.
To sign up for free home seminar: https://portal.ct.gov/homebuying?language=en_US
 
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Melissa in the Morning: Stone Academy Settlement

Melissa in the Morning: Stone Academy Settlement

Nearly two years later, we are finally seeing a preliminary settlement following the abrupt closure of Stone Academy. What does that mean for the hundreds of local nursing students impacted? We asked Attorney General William Tong about that and his pushback on using the term “sanctuary cities” and its impact on the immigrant population in Connecticut.

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CT Today With Paul Pacelli – Should Women Serve In Forward Combat Zones?

CT Today With Paul Pacelli – Should Women Serve In Forward Combat Zones?

Host Paul Pacelli opened Tuesday’s “Connecticut Today” reacting to a confirmation hearing for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth and his views on women in combat positions (00:32). CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane joined us from Capitol Hill in D.C. on those Trump Cabinet nominee hearings (14:58). Yankee Institute blogger Meghan Portfolio chatted about the latest General Assembly news and notes (21:15)

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Melissa in the Morning: Solutions for Major Deficit?

Melissa in the Morning: Solutions for Major Deficit?

Bridgeport school officials made a trip up to Hartford to discuss the nearly $39-million-dollar deficit the district is now facing. Acting Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Royce Avery, was there in front of the state board of education to talk about possible solutions.

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Melissa in the Morning: Seclusion Rooms

Melissa in the Morning: Seclusion Rooms

Have you ever heard of seclusion rooms? One Connecticut school district wants more funding for them. It’s Enfield Public Schools requesting more money in the next school budget for them but also facing a lot of controversy surrounding the rooms. Some have even called them prisons for kids. We asked Fran Rabinowitz, executive director of the CT Association of Public School Superintendents, what she thinks about them.

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Melissa in the Morning: Connecticut Fire Perspective

Melissa in the Morning: Connecticut Fire Perspective

As California wildfires rage on, there are many similarities between what we see out west and at a much smaller scale, what we saw in October of 2024. A brush fire on Lamentation Mountain drained our firefighter resources to the point that we brough in departments from across the country and even Canada. The weather conditions were a huge reason containment was nearly impossible for weeks, just like California. We spoke with Berlin Chief John Massirio to get perspective on the state of our fire response.
 
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