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Advocacy Fiscal Policy Labor Unions

Ken Giardin

Yankee Institute policy director Ken Giardin joins me to discuss their latest policy report “Warning Signs: 2021” an update to their 2018 report assessing the unfunded liabilities fro9m pensions and retiree healthcare benefits in towns and cities in Connecticut.

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Advocacy Fiscal Policy

Adam Andrzejewski

Adam is the founder and CEO of Open the Books, a watchdog agency dedicated to bringing transparency to government spending. Today we take a look back at what he considers the organization’s top investigations of the year.

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Advocacy Authors Culture

Larry Klayman

Legal analyst and author of It Takes a Revolution: Forget the Scandal Industry, Larry is also the chairman of Freedom Watch. He joins us today with an update on his organizations efforts.

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Advocacy Labor Unions

Mark Mix

Mark is the president of the National Right to Work Committee. He joins me to discuss the supply chain bottlenecks and labor shortages that are making Christmas shopping more difficult than any time in recent memory.

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Advocacy Environmental Policy Transportation

Pat Sasser

Pat Sasser of NoTollsCT joins me with his take on TCI and highway tolls being taken off the table on Connecticut. Or are they?

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Advocacy Voting

Trent England

Trent is the Executive Director of Save Our States, a group fighting the effort to rewrite how presidential elections are decided while ignoring the proper process for constitutional change.

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Advocacy Energy

Chris Herb

Chris is the President of the Connecticut Energy Marketers Association. He joins me to discuss his efforts to get Gov. Lamont to stop pushing policies that he says would cause catastrophic electricity grid failures this winter.

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Advocacy Culture Media

Nick Searcy

Actor, director and producer and Peabody Award winner Nick Searcy was at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. According to Nick, what he saw being reported about what happened that day was in no way an accurate portrayal of what he saw that day with his own eyes. He documents that day and the events that followed in his new film Capitol Punishment, premiering Nov. 25th.

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Advocacy Education

Dr. Vermelle D. Greene

Dr. Greene has been a schoolteacher and administrator for more than 45 years. She is also the author of Please Teach Me Like a Boy: Ten Steps to His Success in School and in Life as well as the founder of the Boys Initiative.

She joins me to share her thoughts about the recent gubernatorial election on Virginia.

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Advocacy Voting Waterbury

Larry DePillo

Following the recent elections, Larry ran some of the numbers. He discusses what he found regarding the use of, and problems with, absentee ballots.