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Thursday's "Connecticut Today" with Paul Pacelli opened with Paul looking at new numbers in the election "gender gap" and "education gap" (00:27). "Only In Bridgeport" blogger Lennie Grimaldi joined us to chat about this week's firing of city employee Wanda Geter-Pataky over election issues (07:11)

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Host Brigitte Quinn opened a Thursday Halloween-style “Newsline” with a chat with Dr. Aric Prather, a sleep expert and clinical and health psychologist at the University of California, San Francisco, on changes in sleep patterns and sleeping conditions with the time change coming this weekend (00:00). Also joining the program was Katie Wheeler, the Choices Manager in the Aging Answers Department at the Southwestern Connecticut Agency on Aging in Bridgeport, who talked about Medicare, its programs, and answered listener questions as well! (17:39)

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Host Paul Pacelli opened Wednesday's edition of "Connecticut Today" talking about comments made the previous day by President Joe Biden regarding "supporters" of former President Trump that were interpreted differently by each campaign (00:44). New Haven Fire Department Chief of Operations Dan Coughlin talked about a 4-alarm fire in the city earlier in the day (06:52).  Blogger and former Journal Inquirer of Manchester Editor Chris Powell talked about the growing controversy over some major newspapers not making an endorsement in the presidential race (14:40), while we also featured our weekly check-in with Hearst Connecticut Media columnist and senior editor Dan Haar (24:48)

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Joining a mid-week Wednesday’s “Newsline” for the first time was Attorney General William Tong, who spoke to host Brigitte Quinn about some of his concerns with the outcome of the upcoming Presidential election (00:00). Also joining Brigitte on the program was the President of Yale-New Haven Health Urgent Care, who talked about the latest COVID vaccine, as well as some other seasonal vaccines you should consider getting (19:24)

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Daylight Saving Time will be over this weekend when the clocks fall back an hour. But what are the real medical concerns for people: sleep pattern changes or extreme darkness starting the winter days? We got perspective from Yale Dr. Paul Desan.

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A lockdown has been lifted at the University of Bridgeport after a shooting happened inside the dining hall. Police say it appears this was a dispute between two people known to each other and was not an active shooter situation. We spoke with Police Chief Roderick Porter and UB President Danielle Wilken about the incident.

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The full Connecticut Education Association report has been released regarding Bridgeport teachers and their outlook on the superintendent. In the 12-page report, teachers outline major issues with the new curriculum, teacher disrespect, lack of communication and shady business conducted behind closed doors without teacher input. We got exclusive testimonies from teachers in the district.

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"Connecticut Today" host Paul Pacelli opened Tuesday's show talking about a controversial video posted by State Senate Majority Leader Bob Duff likening former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler (00:47), while Connecticut State Republican Party Chairman Ben Proto joined us with his reaction to that video (07:32). NewsMax Editor-in-Chief Chris Ruddy called in to chat about the growth of his all-news cable channel and the future of the cable news business (13:50). Yankee Institute blogger Meghan Portfolio talked about who Connecticut's Communists are honoring this year (23:55) and we were joined by Professor Frank Buckley, author of, "The Roots of Liberalism: What Faithful Knights and the Little Match Girl Taught Us about Civil Virtue" (31:47)

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A Tuesday’s “Newsline” started with host Brigitte Quinn talking to friend of the show Dr. Howie Forman of the Yale School of Medicine with his weekly health segment, as well as a discussion of the E. coli issue McDonald’s (especially if you like to eat there) has been having (00:00). Also, with Halloween Thursday, Brigitte got to check in with Dr. Magna Dias, Chair of Pediatrics at Bridgeport Hospital, about going out trick-or-treating SAFELY with your child (17:54)

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Only 60% of Gen Xers feel “on track” for retirement, the lowest share of any generation, according to a 2024 report published in USA Today. We talked about creating buckets to feel more secure about retirement years. Julie Bauke tackles this in Julie on the Job.

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