How can Connecticut use redistricting to create an electoral system that serves its people? The Brennan Center’s Michael Li joins John Dankosky to discuss.
John Dankosky
John is CT Mirror's Director of Events. A well-known and highly-regarded radio personality and moderator, he divides his time between CT Mirror — where he heads up our events program and serves as a multi-platform consultant — and the NPR / PRI program Science Friday. Previously, John was executive editor of the New England News Collaborative and the host of NEXT, a weekly program about New England. He also appeared weekly on The Wheelhouse, WNPR’s news roundtable program. His 25 years in public media also include serving as vice president of news for Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, host of WNPR’s Where We Live, and regular fill-in host for the PRI program Science Friday in New York. He was twice recognized by PRNDI as America’s best public radio call-in show.
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WATCH: Linda Greenhouse Analyzes This Year’s U.S. Supreme Court Rulings
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Linda Greenhouse breaks down the U.S. Supreme Court’s most consequential decisions this term. Watch here.
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WATCH: Navigating Truth in a Changing Media Landscape
John Dankosky invites experts to explore how news consumption is shifting and what that means for you. Watch here.
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WATCH: CT Mirror Legislative Session Wrap-Up
John Dankosky, Mark Pazniokas, Keith Phaneuf and Jan Ellen Spiegel recap the busy legislative session and look ahead. Watch here.
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PODCAST: 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.
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WATCH: Coping With Covid: Mental Health Solutions For Kids
This hour-long program explored solutions to the mental health issues in children that the pandemic has uncovered. Watch here.
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PODCAST: Single moms in CT hit hardest by pandemic
Job insecurity, housing insecurity, and food insecurity are all realities, on top of the stress of living through a pandemic while raising children.
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WATCH: Redistricting in CT: Drawing a Better Map
Click here to watch video recording of this event.
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PODCAST: Transforming Hartford with trains, parks, bikes
Hartford 400 calls for a linear park called The Hartline, a brand-new urban district in East Hartford and a main thoroughfare that reconnects Hartford to the Connecticut River.
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PODCAST: The plan to transform Hartford’s highways, riverfront and fortunes
This week, we take a look into the future of Connecticut’s capital city.
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PODCAST: Exoneree says compassion, legislation important 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 the best out of the days that you’re given to live life.”
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PODCAST: Journals tell story of a pandemic year filled with sadness, loss and joy
As we mark the one year anniversary of the pandemic impacting Connecticut, we’ve been asking what we’ve learned and what we’ve lost.
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WATCH: Growing CT’s Economy Through Inclusion
We have the opportunity to rebuild our economy in a way that eliminates systemic economic disparities.
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PODCAST: Porter says Lamont’s ‘austerity budget’ will worsen inequality
In a state that’s been almost entirely run by Democrats for years, Connecticut’s moderate Gov. Ned Lamont is getting a hard push from the left.
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WATCH: Regulating Big Tech: The Limits of Free Speech on Social Media
WATCH: National experts debate the future of free speech on the internet.