Join CT Mirror Policy Editor Erica E. Phillips as she sits down with Connecticut’s most successful entrepreneurs to explore their origin stories, how they turned their first dollar, and why Connecticut was the place to make it happen.

UConn graduate and serial entrepreneur André Swanston achieved a historic nine-figure exit with the sale of his data company, Tru Optik, to TransUnion—making him one of the few Black Americans to reach such a milestone. Now, he’s channeling that success into groundbreaking ventures that transform the way content creators, brands, distributors, and consumers engage across advertising and entertainment.

This show was recorded live at Stamford's Ferguson Library on Jan 14, 2025.

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In The Room is an in-person, monthly interview series with Connecticut’s top elected officials and political experts. Host John Dankosky brings a new approach to political interviews, exploring the policy and the people behind the policy.

In this episode Dankosky interviews former Supreme Court Reporter Linda Greenhouse.

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In The Room is an in-person, monthly interview series with Connecticut’s top elected officials. Host John Dankosky brings a new approach to political interviews, exploring the policy and the people behind the policy.

In the fourth event of the series, Dankosky interviews State Treasurer Erick Russell at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas.

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In The Room is an in-person, monthly interview series with Connecticut’s top elected officials. Host John Dankosky brings a new approach to political interviews, exploring the policy and the people behind the policy.

In the third event of the series, Dankosky interviews Attorney General William Tong, at UConn Stamford.

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In The Room is a new, in-person, monthly interview series with Connecticut’s top elected officials. Host John Dankosky brings a new approach to political interviews, exploring the policy and the people behind the policy.

In the second event of the series, Dankosky interviews Gov. Ned Lamont at Mohegan Sun.

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In The Room is a monthly, in-person interview series with top elected officials at locations throughout the state. In this series, host John Dankosky bring a new approach to political interviews — exploring both the policy and the people behind the policy.

This episode, Senator Chris Murphy spoke with John at the Mark Twain House & Museum.

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Community Editorial Board Editor Mercy Quaye hosts an in-depth conversation on probation, parole and commutations with State Sen. Heather Somers, Community Editorial Board member Marisol Garcia and victims advocate Audrey Carlson.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Linda Greenhouse joins CT Mirror’s John Dankosky to discuss the end of another consequential U.S. Supreme Court term.

Greenhouse, who has covered the Court for nearly three decades at The New York Times, offers her unique perspective on what the court’s recent major decisions mean, their impact across the country, and their impact on the court itself.

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CT Mirror Capitol Bureau Chief Mark Pazniokas sits down with Steady Habits host John Dankosky to review the Connecticut General Assembly’s 2023 legislative session and answer audience questions.

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Gov. Ned Lamont sits down with CT Mirror Capitol Bureau Chief Mark Pazniokas to talk about the current budget process and his vision for his second term. Lamont won a convincing reelection last year as a defender of the fiscal guardrails that have capped spending and pushed the state to use its historic run of budget surpluses to fill the rainy day fund and begin paying down Connecticut’s considerable pension debt.

Is that what the governor sees as his mandate and mission for the next four years, imposing fiscal discipline on a state that has the second-highest per-capita debt in the U.S. and has struggled through much of the past three decades to grow jobs and the economy?

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