CT’s Acting Healthcare Advocate, Sean T. King, joins Lisa Wexler to talk about how the Office of the Healthcare Advocacy (OHA) is open to every CT resident with aid in dealing with health insurance issues.
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Bristol residents flocked to a city hall meeting to voice their concerns about a proposed geese mitigation plan. The Bristol Board of Park Commissioners was considering a management plan that would authorize both lethal and non-lethal measures to deter the animals at city-owned parks and properties. It comes after the city reportedly received 115 emails and 40 calls about the plan in recent days. And a lot of WICC listeners also weighed in on the controversy around handling massive geese populations all over Connecticut. We got to the crux of the issue and possible solutions to thin populations or move geese out of public parks and cemeteries without euthanizing them. Gregg Dancho of the Beardsley Zoo shared that information and talked about Party for the Planet this weekend at the zoo ahead of Earth Day. For more information: beardsleyzoo.org
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It is Work Zone Awareness Month and our Department of Transportation is hyper focused on speeding. This time last year, the DOT rolled out speed cameras as part of a pilot program to monitor speeding in work zones on our highways. They were placed in a handful of spots, including one in a work zone in Norwalk. In the eight-month period, the data shows over 20-thousand warnings were issued during the pilot and more than 700 tickets were issued. One of the fastest speeds was 107 miles an hour and that was in the Norwalk work zone. DOT Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto talked about the effectiveness of speed cameras in work zones and whether the cameras will be permanent in the state. Plus, we covered wrong-way detection systems across the state, the reasoning for taking down trees along our highways, and a push to lower the BAC from .08% to .05%.
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Social media platforms are “not inherently suitable for youth,” say top psychologists, and tech companies and lawmakers need to do more to protect kids’ mental health. The American Psychological Association said Tuesday that endless scrolling and push notifications are particularly risky for young people whose brains are still developing. We asked Dr. Browne about this. Plus, we tackled seafood woes in New England. People who eat a lot of seafood may be at a higher risk of exposure to so-called “forever chemicals.” A new study published last week in the journal Exposure and Health tested several species in a New Hampshire seafood market. It found very high levels of these toxic chemicals, known as PFAS in shrimp and lobster.
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Boeing’s safety culture came under scrutiny during a U.S. Senate hearing this week in Washington DC. Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour was one of several whistleblowers who testified against Boeing in regard to their lacking manufacturing safety and the toxic work environment following his effort to voice concerns. Senator Richard Blumenthal was in the room for that hearing and shared his feedback with us about the problem at hand and what needs to happen next.
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Wednesday’s “Connecticut Today” with host Paul Pacelli opened with a chat about the media uproar surrounding Caitlin Clark’s rookie WNBA contract (00:24). Hearst Connecticut Media editor and columnist Dan Haar dropped by on his way home from the State Capitol to chat about the latest in the General Assembly (13:20)
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WICC salutes those who have served and sacrificed for our great nation, and those who continue to do so today.
WICC is proud to once again to participate in the annual Derby-Shelton Memorial Day Parade on Monday, May 27th. The parade steps off at 9:00 am.
Parade starts at 9:00 am at Howe Avenue and Cornell Street in Shelton.
Heading South then Right on to Kneen Street
Right on to Coram Avenue
Right on to White Street
Left on to Derby-Shelton Bridge toward Derby
Right on to Main Street
Left on to Elizabeth Street
Ends at Cottage Street and Elizabeth Street.
Sikorsky Aircraft is laying off hundreds of workers in the state who were involved with the canceled Army scout helicopter project. Around 400 Connecticut employees are losing their jobs, mostly engineers and digital technology workers in the scout program. The layoffs reportedly involve 350 Sikorsky workers in Stratford. We got some business perspective from Dan Onofrio, President of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council. How do the layoffs impact surrounding town businesses who rely on those workers? And when Sikorsky loses a military contract, what does that mean for the Connecticut businesses supplying Sikorsky with material to build their aircrafts?
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As of July 2021, Connecticut residents could possess and use of up to 1.5 oz of cannabis legally. And in 2022, the state started allowing retail shops to open and sell recreational marijuana. Since the roll out, some of the biggest supporters of legalizing weed, are now thinking twice about it. We found out what the law has ACTUALLY done to many in the cannabis industry, including local hemp farmers, and why the news you see about pot shops may not be as great as headlines say. We got the scoop from Mike Goodenough, co-founder of the Connecticut Cannabis Small Business Alliance and CEO of Himalayan High LLC.
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After months of work, David Mestre and a team of UB students travelled to Texas to be part of a NASA-backed project during the solar eclipse. David told us about the project, the journey and the outcome of the experiment. Did their cameras capture footage of the eclipse? Did weather impact the balloons needed to get cameras in the air? We got the scoop during Science You May Not Know.
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