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The Wheelhouse Took a Vacation and a Lot Happened

Chion Wolf
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WNPR
Today's edition of The Wheelhouse featured Jon Lender, Khalilah Brown-Dean, Mark Pazniokas, and Colin McEnroe (Clockwise from top-left)

When host John Dankosky last sat behind the microphone for our weekly news roundtable The Wheelhouse, we lived in different times. John Rowland was only convicted once. The 2014 race for governor was still three months away. Derek Jeter was a professional baseball player. And Yuengling was not for sale in Connecticut.

Oh, how times have changed.

Coming up on our weekly news roundtable The Wheelhouse, we'll catch John and you up on all the week's news, including Tuesday night's debate between Dan Malloy and Tom Foley.

Have your thoughts on the 2014 race for governor changed in the last three weeks?

GUESTS:

  • Colin McEnroe - Host of The Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR
  • Mark Pazniokas - Capitol bureau chief for the Connecticut Mirror
  • Jon Lender - Hartford Courant columnist and writer for "Government Watch"
  • Khalilah Brown-Dean - Associate professor of political science at Quinnipiac University
  • Erika Franklin Fowler - Assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University and director of the Wesleyan Media Project
  • Linda Conner Lambeck - Education reporter for the Connecticut Post

Tucker Ives is WNPR's morning news producer.
Catie Talarski is Senior Director of Storytelling and Radio Programming at Connecticut Public.

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The independent journalism and non-commercial programming you rely on every day is in danger.

If you’re reading this, you believe in trusted journalism and in learning without paywalls. You value access to educational content kids love and enriching cultural programming.

Now all of that is at risk.

Federal funding for public media is under threat and if it goes, the impact to our communities will be devastating.

Together, we can defend it. It’s time to protect what matters.

Your voice has protected public media before. Now, it’s needed again. Learn how you can protect the news and programming you depend on.