Patrick Skahill
Assistant Director of News and Talk ShowsPatrick Skahill is the assistant director of news and talk shows at Connecticut Public. He was the founding producer of The Colin McEnroe Show and a science and environment reporter at the station for more than eight years. His stories have been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, Here & Now, All Things Considered and the Marketplace Morning Report.
His work has been recognized by the regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, the Public Media Journalists Association and the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists.
He can be reached at pskahill@ctpublic.org.
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Tunnel construction began in 2016. The project was initially expected to come online in 2023 at a cost of $279 million. Costs have grown to $335 million and the tunnel is not anticipated to be operational until fall 2026. -
The agency says it will run a charter program for the Department of Homeland Security with “domestic and international trips to support DHS's deportation efforts.” -
The cuts are expected to terminate grants allocated to the state for disease outbreak surveillance, newborn screenings and childhood immunizations, state officials said. -
This hour on The Colin McEnroe Show, we learn about Connecticut's trails from out in the woods. -
The proposal has gathered the support of a broad coalition of farmers and academics, who say drones could make their jobs cheaper and more environmentally-friendly. -
Connecticut announced it is formally pulling the plug on an agreement with Rhode Island and Massachusetts to make a bulk purchase of offshore wind. -
About one quarter of the claims are for bonding leave with a newborn child, according to state officials. -
M. Jodi Rell, a governor whose bipartisan spirit helped CT politics emerge from scandals, dies at 78Rell died following a brief illness in Florida. She was the second female governor in Connecticut history, and the state's first female Republican governor. -
A large portion of western Connecticut was listed by the agency Thursday as in a “severe drought,” a sign of worsening water conditions in the state. -
The bid, announced Thursday, was backed by the Connecticut families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, who won a $1.4 billion defamation verdict against Jones.
