A state official is trying to get quasi-public agencies to be more transparent, but that's proving to be a bit difficult. These quasi-public agencies are privately run but they provide public services, and they're supposed to operate with some government oversight. State Comptroller Kevin Lembo wants them to provide checkbook-level financial information. But in a recent letter to the governor , he said three quasi-publics are not cooperating. “The three that were listed in the letter were either

We can learn a lot from campaign finance reports. In Connecticut's race for governor, they reveal that the three top contenders, Bob Stefanowski, Ned Lamont, and Oz Griebel, are all dipping deep into their own pockets to fund their campaigns.

A Music Teacher at Warren Harding High School in Bridgeport has been named the Connecticut Teacher of the Year. Sheena Graham is the choir director at Warren Harding, while also teaching black history chorale, peer leadership, theatre, piano, and performing arts. Graham graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Western Connecticut State University and earned master’s degrees from St. Joseph University and Southern Connecticut State University. The Ansonia native has

It was a plague that came every summer and left thousands of American children paralyzed -- or dead -- in its wake. This hour we take a look at the legacy of polio. How the development of the polio vaccine changed the course of history?

Common wisdom says that once you walk downstairs to the place where the sizes of candidates’ body parts are fodder for discussion, where one presidential nominee calls another “such a nasty woman” in a debate, where middle-finger salutes at the working press become commonplace at presidential rallies, you never go back up those stairs. On the eve of a midterm, we want to talk about whether that’s true and whether the 2018 political ecosystem caught the coarseness virus from 2016. And how do we

Despite Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and attempts by hackers to infiltrate voter-registration databases in Illinois, Arizona and several other states in the summer of 2016, little has been done to better secure America's network of electronic voting systems.

U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley has announced she will resign from the post by year's end, raising questions and speculation as to who will fill the high-ranking vacancy. This hour, we examine one possible candidate: former Connecticut U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman. What qualifications would Lieberman bring to the position? And what would it take for him to be confirmed? Later, we talk about trends in U.S. civics education. Are children who are exposed to the topic earlier more likely to develop into

An elite Connecticut boarding school has acknowledged more instances of faculty sexual misconduct.

What does effective philanthropy look like in the 21st century? This hour, we sit down with Jay Williams, the President of the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. We also talk with scholar and author, Chuck Collins. He is a one-percenter who dedicated his life to addressing income inequality. Collins’ policy institute has found that charities are increasingly depending on larger donations from a smaller number of wealthy individuals. We ask Collins--is that a good thing?

We now have no fewer than four big screen versions of A Star Is Born . There's the 1937 original, the Judy Garland/James Mason remake, the Barbra Streisand/Kris Kristofferson remake... and now's there's the Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper remake, which is directed by Cooper, and which might just take the fall movie season by storm . This hour: a Noseish (but not quite actually The Nose ) look at the phenomenon of A Star Is Born .