Would Shrinking The Supreme Court Help Build Consensus?
Many of the biggest questions surrounding this year’s Supreme Court term don’t have to do with the cases they decided. They’re more about the people w...
Steady Habits: A Connecticut Mirror Podcast
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Welcome to Steady Habits: A Connecticut Mirror Podcast, hosted by John Dankosky. Our goal is to foster meaningful conversations with newsmakers and the journalists who cover them. We're planning to dig into Connecticut's biggest stories in policy and politics. Let's get started.
Outflanked To The Right: Linda Greenhouse Considers The Roberts Court
The Supreme Court term is over, and although it didn’t have some of the high-profile cases we’ve come to expect the Court to decide, it did have its o...
CT Legislative Wrap Up: Yes To Legal Weed; No To New Taxes, Climate Change Bill
The Connecticut legislative session has concluded, and it seems that in some ways, this "Land of Steady Habits" has emerged as a changed place. Yester...
Redistricting in CT: How to Draw a Better Map
The 2020 Census gives Americans a chance to redraw their district lines, fundamentally shifting the map of Democracy. But we often wonder - is our sys...
Finding Mental Health Solutions For CT Kids
This last year, spent in a pandemic, has changed the lives of so many. But those changes might be felt most acutely by children. Their routines of fam...
What You Need To Know About A CT Nursing Home Strike
Nursing home workers and Connecticut are still at an impasse over a new contract. The state’s largest health care union has said it will strike as soo...
Single Moms Hit Hardest By Pandemic
Everyone has had their lives upended by the pandemic. But the problem has been felt most acutely by women, with more than 2 million leaving the workfo...
Transforming Hartford Part 2: Trains, Bikes, Parks, And "Place"
This week, we continue our conversation with Doug Suisman, the architect and urban planner, who is leading an ambitious planning project for the Great...
The Plan To Transform Hartford's Highways, Riverfront and Fortunes
This week, we take a look into the future of Connecticut’s capital city. And not a science fiction look, 100 years out, but something a bit more mana...
Exoneree Says Compassion Is Key For Those Leaving Prison
If you talk with Scott Lewis, you hear a lot of things that sound like this: “When you go through a lot of challenges in life, you learn how to make t...