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Milford school leaders are engaging in a process of developing what’s called a Long Range Facilities Plan. It’s meant to guide the decisions related to the city’s district school buildings for many years to come. We got the details from Milford Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Anna Cutaia and Chair of the Milford Board of Education, Susan Glennon.

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Police departments in Connecticut now have a new tool in fighting crime. The new technology is called GrayKey and it allows Investigators to get into an alleged criminal’s phone no matter what secret passcode they have used or if the phone is even locked. We asked investigative reporter, Jeff Derderian, about the details.

For Jeff’s story on WTNH: https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/how-connecticut-police-break-into-suspect-phones/

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Host Paul Pacelli opened Thursday's "Connecticut Today" with more thoughts on a new report from State Comptroller Sean Scanlon on some questionable spending connected to the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system (00:26). Also weighing in on that report: State Senate GOP leader Steve Harding (15:43), and Yankee Institute for Public Policy President Carol Liebau (22:20)

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Comptroller Sean Scanlon released the audit results showing an alarming systemic spending problem among administrators in the CSCU system. We got key takeaways from the investigation and recommendations for change from the comptroller.

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Eversource and natural gas customers could see an increase in their bills down the line because of a change in the companies’ credit ratings. With a lower credit rating, these utility companies say it will cost more to secure money for large projects, and customers will end up footing a larger bill. To better understand yet another increase with utility bills, we spoke with Eversource Vice President of Rates and Regulatory Requirements, Doug Horton.

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Darien’s high school football team is getting a lot of attention on the internet after making a questionable play during last week’s championship game against New Canaan. The CIAC has since spoken out about the play and reiterated that it can’t happen moving forward. We spoke with CIAC Executive Director, Glenn Lungarini.

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A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu. While no cases have been detected in Connecticut yet, we wanted to talk about the illness in terms of symptoms, transmission, and prevention with Dr. Fred Browne of Griffin Health.

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Host Paul Pacelli opened Wednesday's mid-week "Connecticut Today" wondering why there continues to be a general lack of reaction to urban gun violence on a regular basis in both Connecticut and the U.S. (00:36). Quinnipiac University Assistant Professor of Law Wayne Unger discussed the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to step in on a case that could put the social media app TikTok out of business in the U.S. (13:44), while Hearst Connecticut Media columnist and senior editor Dan Haar had the buzz on the biggest state stories (21:42)

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The original Golden Bachelor, Gerry Turner, revealed that he’s been fighting Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinemia, an incurable and rare slow-growing type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Yale Cancer Center expert, Dr. Natalia Neparidze, explained risk factors, treatment strategy, and the prognosis.

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We spoke with Bridgeport Fire Chief Lance Edwards and Police Chief Roderick Porter about safety tips during the holidays and winter season.

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