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Frankie & Johnny: Jan. 27, 2023: Shootings in California reverberate in Connecticut. New Haven marks the Lunar New Year. Lawmakers consider gun violence proposals.

Right now, students who are taking at least six credits at local community colleges and are attending college for the first time don't have to pay for college in Connecticut. But a new proposal could extend free college tuition to all community college students and to some students attending state universities.

Frankie & Johnny: January 13, 2023. Topics this week include the sales launch of marijuana for recreational use; efforts by Connecticut officials to erase cannabis convictions in tandem with the broadening of adult-use pot in Connecticut; and the success of the University of Connecticut women’s basketball team in the face of mounting injuries.

Graduate teachers and researchers at Yale University have overwhelmingly voted to unionize.

Our weekly news roundup covers the tragic death of a state lawmaker in a wrong-way crash and the suspension of an attorney representing Alex Jones in Connecticut.

Marshall ended the season with its fifth straight win in a 28-14 victory over UConn at the Myrtle Beach Bowl.

Frankie & Johnny: November 18, 2022. Topics this week include energy providers in Connecticut Eversource and United Illuminating announcing rate hikes set for January, a national “invasion of privacy” settlement with tech giant Google, and the University of Connecticut college football team becoming “bowl-eligible.”

Frankie & Johnny: Nov. 11, 2022. Topics this week include a roundup of the 2022 midterm elections, early voting constitutional amendment passing in Connecticut, and Alex Jones ordered to pay a half a billion dollars more to Sandy Hook plaintiffs. And a Happy Veterans Day to service members.

Topics include a Derby elected official who entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, football between UMass and UConn, and a goodbye to Lucy Nalpathanchil on Where We Live.

Radenka Maric is the second woman to be president of the university. Maric’s appointment is a move toward stability for the university, as two former presidents stepped down from their roles in the last two years.