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Chef Andrew Gruel

Chef Gruel is the founder and CEO of the Slapfish restaurant chain and founder of the 86 Restaurant Struggle, a fund set up to help struggling restaurant workers survive during the pandemic. We discuss the problems being caused by the oberous regulations imposed on the nation’s restaurants.

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Advocacy Business

Ron Pugliese

Ron is the President and CEO of the Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation. He gives us an update on how the borough hopes to keep business booming.

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Advocacy Business Community

Joe Delong

Joe is the Executive Director and CEO of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. He is also a member of the CCM’s American Relief Plan’s Advisory Service Committee, that is bringing together many of the stakeholders in the state to discuss the strategy to spend the hundreds of millions of dollars the state and municipalities are getting from the Federal government.

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Advocacy Voting

David Jolly

David is the National Executive Chairman for the Serve America Movement. He joins me today to talk about his upcoming “friend-raisers” and what his organization is trying to change about voting in America.

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Advocacy Politics

Pat Sasser

Pat is the founder of No Tolls CT and has continued to be politically active in Connecticut. We discuss the myriad of reasons why he believes we need to change our elected representatives in Hartford if we have any hope of reversing the direction of the state.

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Advocacy Authors Education

Dr. Vermelle D. Greene

Dr. Greene is a former teacher and administrator and also the author of Please Teach Me Like I’m a Boy: Ten steps to His Success om School and Life. She joins me today t discuss the continuing effort to defame Christopher Columbus and why it is happening.

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Advocacy Business

Scott Dolch

Scott is the executive director of the Connecticut Restaurant Association. He joins me to discuss a recent survey of restaurant owners nationwide about how they feel about the present business environment and what the future holds for their businesses.

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Advocacy

Deborah Dorfman

We take a look at the priorities and areas of focus in t he upcoming year for the group Disability Rights Connecticut with the executive director Deborah Dorfman.

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Advocacy Covid 19 Politics

Heidi St. John

Washington State Congressional candidate and founder of MomStrong International Heidi St. John joins me with her take on school vaccination mandates.

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Advocacy Environmental Policy Waterbury

Mayor Pete Hess and Rick Dunne

Naugatuck Mayor Pete Hess and Rick Dunne of the Naugatuck Valley Council discuss a suit against the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission related to the blocking of migratory fish passage on the Naugatuck River.