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Talk Shows and Podcasts
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This hour, we sit down with Hartford luminary Brother Carl Hardrick at the new Institute for Violence Prevention and Community Engagement in his name. COMPASS Youth Collaborative also joins.
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This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, a celebration of all things tacky. Plus, a look at why reality TV is sometimes tacky and at the tackiest home décor.
LATEST CONNECTICUT NEWS
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A federal judge has rejected the latest attempt by a former Connecticut mayor to have his sentence on child-sex charges shortened. Former Waterbury Mayor Philip Giordano, who has served 19 years of a 37-year sentence, had requested compassionate release, citing in part threats to his health from COVID-19.
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A Connecticut judge is still trying to get to the bottom of how confidential records of nine parties in a Connecticut lawsuit filed against Infowars host Alex Jones ended up in the possession of an attorney defending Jones in Texas. According to a filing in the Connecticut case, a third party was involved in transmitting the information in a hard drive believed to contain confidential depositions and psychiatric records of the Connecticut plaintiffs from Jones' attorney in Connecticut.
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The Puerto Rican Festival of New Haven will return this Saturday for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut it down for two years.
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Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim testified before the Standing Committee on Recommendations for Admission to the Bar on Tuesday in an attempt to get his law license back. Ganim lost it after he served 7 years in federal prison.
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A judge has ordered a Texas attorney representing Infowars host Alex Jones for a hearing in a Connecticut court. Jones was sued for defamation in Texas and Connecticut by families of victims killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. An attorney for one family suggested in court this week that Jones’ attorneys shared confidential psychiatric records and depositions of the nine named plaintiffs in a Connecticut lawsuit against Jones — records an attorney for the plaintiffs in Texas say Andino Reynal shouldn’t have.
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Connecticut launched a website and telephone hotline on Friday designed to link people seeking abortions with resources in the state.
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The question that hung over the show's final episode was a simple one: Would Saul ever grow a conscience? Would he ever let himself feel real regret?
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The National Basketball Association announced Tuesday that there are no games scheduled for November 8 in an effort to encourage fans to vote in the 2022 midterms.
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4moms is recalling MamaRoos and RockaRoos due to entanglement hazards from straps that hang down from the rockers and swings when not in use. At least one baby has died as a result of asphyxiation.
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William MacAskill's book, What We Owe the Future, urges today's humans to protect future humans — an idea he calls longtermism. Here are a few of his hardly modest proposals.
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The Marshall Project asked people in prison to track their earning and spending — and bartering and side hustles — for 30 days. Their accounts reveal a thriving underground economy behind bars.
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A Supreme Court ruling overturned Roe v. Wade. Now there's a big push to increase funding for Title X, a federal program that offers birth control and other reproductive care to low-income patients.