During tonight’s taping of “Face the State” at the WFSB studios in Rocky Hill, interviewee Colin McEnroe referenced Ted Kennedy’s speech at the 1980 Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden. Its closing passage is not only beautifully written but captures Senator Kennedy’s final decades in public life: “For me, a few hours ago, this [...]
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Connecticut has lost a loyal son with the death of Dominick Dunne. While he was a celebrity whose job it was to spend time with, and write about, the rich and famous, he never lost his love for his hometowns of Hartford and West Hartford. Whether he was asked to speak at an event for [...]
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WNPR announced today the return of Colin McEnroe to Connecticut’s airwaves. The Colin McEnroe Show launches its 13-week ‘Pilot’ run on Monday, August 31, 2009 in the 1PM to 2PM time slot. The show will be a bit of a departure from Colin’s previous WTIC-am radio show and will attempt to emulate his newspaper columns [...]
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CNN’s “Reliable Sources”, anchored by Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, broadcast a segment this weekend on George Gombossy’s contentious departure from the Hartford Courant. A friend points out that George was interviewed by satellite from Fox61. We’re thinking that either Courant/Fox61 management decided it would look bad to deny the interview request, or that [...]
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Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of Homeland Security, has written a new book that includes the explosive information that “he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he suspected was an effort to influence the vote.” The Laurel is [...]
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