Steady Habits

As newspapers fold and online disinformation proliferates, what’s the future of news? How can we preserve its function as a pillar of democracy?

In the first of a series for Steady Habits sponsored by CT Rides, John Dankosky invites experts to look at the impact of COVID-19 on businesses, their employees, and Connecticut’s roadways and transit systems.

In part two of our conversation, Linda Greenhouse considers whether a smaller, even-numbered future Court might help build more consensus.

The longtime Supreme Court reporter and columnist for the New York Times sees the justices expanding their role in religious issues and further damaging the Voting Rights Act.

The legislative session has concluded. It seems in some ways this “Land of Steady Habits” has emerged a changed place.

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.

Job insecurity, housing insecurity, and food insecurity are all realities, on top of the stress of living through a pandemic while raising children.

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.

Listen to John Dankosky’s two-part conversation with an architect and urban designer whose organization played a major role in the “Hartford 400” plan.

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.”

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.

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.