A viral video surfaced on Instagram of a woman sharing her terrifying story of taking a stranger’s photo on a cell phone only to learn she had allegedly been drugged. We talked about this instance with former police chief, Gary McNamara. He spoke about the importance of recognizing signs of a bad situation and getting comfortable with saying “no.”
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Commissioner Ron Welch of the CT Department of Veterans Affairs shared the legacy of Captain Paul Bucha. Commissioner Welch also talked about the CT Veterans Hall of Fame. Applications are being accepted through September 15th.
How to Apply: https://portal.ct.gov/dva/pages/ct-veterans-hall-of-fame/how-to?language=en_US
Nomination Package (needed for application): https://portal.ct.gov/dva/pages/ct-veterans-hall-of-fame/nomination-package?language=en_US
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This year’s summer covid surge in Connecticut is not letting up just yet. According to the CDC, a big reason for the spike is due to the oppressive heat forcing people to gather indoors.
Also, federal health officials say the number of measles cases in the U.S. this year already tripled the total for 2023.
Dr. Fred Browne from Griffin Health was back with all the latest infectious disease topics including covid, measles and handling peanut allergies.
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Host Paul Pacelli’s Wednesday edition of “Connecticut Today” touched on a recent Wall Street Journal story detailing the number of states – including Connecticut – that are seeing a big jump in marijuana use connected to deadly road accidents (00:34). Connecticut Restaurant Association head Scott Dolch talked about a Hartford Courant story on recent restaurant closures in the state (13:36). Hearst Connecticut Media columnist and senior editor Dan Haar shared his thoughts on some of the state’s major story (23:50)
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While there are a lot of things happening and news headlines coming out of the Park City, most of our calls from Bridgeport residents are about Success Village and the Board of Education. We talked about them both with Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim.
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A new report highlighting the epidemic of drug, alcohol and suicide deaths was released to the public, thanks to Trust for America’s Health (TFAH). The data shows two things: first, improvement in combined substance misuse and suicide mortality rate in five years; and two, trends remain alarmingly high. We spoke with an author of the report, Dr. Nadine Gracia, who is also the President and CEO of TFAH.
For more information: Tfah.org
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This summer, there have been hundreds of orca whale attacks on boats off the coast of Spain. It’s a new trend we’re seeing and learned that this is a taught behavior and that orcas aren’t trying to cause harm, but believe they are playing. How do we know that though? Science expert, David Mestre, explains how a story of “salmon hat” in 1987 correlates to what’s happening today in orca news.
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Tuesday’s “Connecticut Today” with host Paul Pacelli featured an update on U.S. Senate passage of the “Kids Online Safety Act,” co-authored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (00:38). Quinnipiac University assistant professor of interactive media design John Powers also weighed in on Senate passage of that bill (12:44). Stratford GOP State Sen. Kevin Kelly talked about the precarious state of Connecticut’s “small group” insurance market (23:13). We also featured our weekly check-in with Yankee Institute blogger Meghan Portfolio (32:03)
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Connecticut Inside Investigator reporter, Katherine Revello, joins Lisa Wexler to discuss her in-depth report on CT’s Right to Read waiver decisions.
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