Thursday’s “Connecticut Today” with Paul Pacelli opened with Paul looking at new numbers in the election “gender gap” and “education gap” (00:27). “Only In Bridgeport” blogger Lennie Grimaldi joined us to chat about this week’s firing of city employee Wanda Geter-Pataky over election issues (07:11)
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Host Brigitte Quinn opened a Thursday Halloween-style “Newsline” with a chat with Dr. Aric Prather, a sleep expert and clinical and health psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, on changes in sleep patterns and sleeping conditions with the time change coming this weekend (00:00). Also joining the program was Katie Wheeler, the Choices Manager in the Aging Answers Department at the Southwestern Connecticut Agency on Aging in Bridgeport, who talked about Medicare, its programs, and answered listener questions as well! (17:39)
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Avangrid SVP of Public & Regulatory Affairs, Kim Harriman, joins Lisa Wexler to advocate for rate hikes to make capital improvements in our utility grids.
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A new audit report reveals more than $22,000 was spent on a fun-filled day for agency workers and their families, even though it was dubbed an annual meeting day of work. But what does this one day of alarming spending say about the lack of transparency in where our tax dollars go to state government? We spoke with investigative reporter, Jeff Derderian, about the audit and what he discovered.
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After accusations surfaced against the Fairfield Republican Town Committee regarding a letter to Fairfield University students, we heard from RTC Chairwoman, Laura Devlin. She shared the details of that letter and gave a rebuttal to the attacks from the other side.
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The Fairfield Democratic Town Committee is sounding the alarm over a letter sent to Fairfield University students ahead of the election. The letter was sent by the Republican Town Committee and it’s being called a shocking breach of privacy sent as an unsolicited mass political email to students. We get a better look at the accusation from the DTC Chairman, Steven Sheinberg.
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Host Paul Pacelli opened Wednesday’s edition of “Connecticut Today” talking about comments made the previous day by President Joe Biden regarding “supporters” of former President Trump that were interpreted differently by each campaign (00:44). New Haven Fire Department Chief of Operations Dan Coughlin talked about a 4-alarm fire in the city earlier in the day (06:52). Blogger and former Journal Inquirer of Manchester Editor Chris Powell talked about the growing controversy over some major newspapers not making an endorsement in the presidential race (14:40), while we also featured our weekly check-in with Hearst Connecticut Media columnist and senior editor Dan Haar (24:48)
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Joining a mid-week Wednesday’s “Newsline” for the first time was Attorney General William Tong, who spoke to host Brigitte Quinn about some of his concerns with the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election (00:00). Also joining Brigitte on the program was the President of Yale-New Haven Health Urgent Care, who talked about the latest COVID vaccine, as well as some other seasonal vaccines you should consider getting (19:24)
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Erin Gorman Esquire, CT’s first-ever cannabis ombudsman, joins Lisa Wexler to talk about why her office was created and what her goals are.
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A lockdown has been lifted at the University of Bridgeport after a shooting happened inside the dining hall. Police say it appears this was a dispute between two people known to each other and was not an active shooter situation. We spoke with Police Chief Roderick Porter and UB President Danielle Wilken about the incident.
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