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WWL: Transforming Transit
courtesy Connecticut Historiacl Society and The Hartford Courant
A conversation with Toni Gold
Broadcast on: 02/09/2010
Continued Coverage of the Middletown Explosion - 02/08/10
by Catie Talarski
Five people died in an explosion on Sunday at the Kleen Energy Power Plant in Middletown. Mayor Sebastian Guiliano confirms that there were twelve people injured in the blast, and currently all workers have been accounte... read more
Producer’s Note: Speaking of Green… - 02/05/10
from Libby — Stephen Asma is the philosophy scholar we featured on WWL today. We first ran across his writing on “green guilt” at Arts and Letters Daily, which Newsweek has called “the go to site for the world’s procrastinating intellectu... read more
Deja Vu at the Capitol, While Real Life Goes On - 02/03/10
Governor Jodi Rell - Christine Stuart, ctnewsjunkie.com
by John Dankosky – As I talked with Mark Pazniokas of the CT Mirror, and Keith Phaneuf of the Manchester Journal Inquirer CT Mirror this morning, I had a strange sense of dej... read more
Young CT Workers: “It’s not just about housing…I want to have fun!” - 02/02/10
Look...we're not Manhattan - photo by Stuck in Customs
by John Dankosky -
No matter how often we talk about housing, jobs, demographics and quality of life in Connecticut, we keep getting back to a truism that hurts us a bit: We’re not now,... read more
Future Episodes
WWL: A Nation of Criminals? - 02/08/2010
*This episode originally aired on December 7, 2009.
The average American wakes up each day, goes to work, comes home, and goes to bed—with no idea that he or she may have committed a federal crime or two over the course of the day.
That's the argument of attorney Harvey Silverglate, whos... read more
Past Guests
These are just some of the interesting people we've had on our show...
Jeanne Milstein, State of Connecticut
Diana Lind, Next American City
Barbara Phillips, Phillips Associates
David Crystal, University of Bangor, North Wales UK
Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic, Michigan State University
Elvin T. Lim, Wesleyan University
Thomas Sheridan, Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut
Michael J. Weiss, PhD, Fairfield University
Renny Fulco, Trinity College
Ben Berkowitz, SeeClickFix
Kris Newby, Under Our Skin
Ana Rosa Selva, Aid to Artisans
Renny Fulco, Trinity College
Blog - Archive
2009
December (2)
Our New Blog! - 12/17/2009
Catching up - 12/08/2009
November (6)
Safe travels! - 11/25/2009
Locating Creativity: LIVE! - 11/18/2009
Bear We Live - 11/13/2009
Rell Statement: "It's Time" - 11/10/2009
Artist, vocabularian, radio listener - 11/06/2009
Making some sense of the nonsensical - 11/04/2009
October (9)
Moving, eating, staying healthy - 10/28/2009
mapping Main Street - 10/27/2009
Update: Racial Profiling - 10/27/2009
wwl @ raw - 10/22/2009
Comfort food, "hormonal soup" and deep belly fat - 10/21/2009
The Columbus Dilemma - 10/12/2009
What's a Person To Do? - 10/09/2009
Sometimes you look at the news, and it is you - 10/09/2009
On the road to nowhere - 10/02/2009
September (4)
a little bit of housing - 09/29/2009
World drops in on the 'burgh - 09/23/2009
Outside the "Gender Binary" - 09/11/2009
Yelling and Screaming - 09/03/2009
August (5)
Calm? Reasonable? Are you serious? - 08/31/2009
Revisiting Punishment - 08/24/2009
Communication breakdown - 08/19/2009
taxing the sinners - 08/12/2009
A Dangerous Driving Dilemma - 08/04/2009
July (7)
Jazz takes over the hills - 07/31/2009
thank you! - 07/29/2009
Catie Talarski's Radio Adventure Theater - 07/24/2009
The Last Word on TV News - 07/17/2009
"Forgive Me" for not blogging more... - 07/16/2009
Goodbye to WNPR's "Community Builder" - 07/10/2009
John Orman: Pundit, Professor, Party-crasher - 07/07/2009
June (7)
Listener Supported Music - 06/30/2009
Stanback, Double X and Twain - 06/18/2009
Further Reading on Choosing Single Motherhood - 06/17/2009
indie cinema on WWL - 06/15/2009
rotfl. - 06/09/2009
Happy Birthday to us! - 06/05/2009
"Keno is crazy..." - 06/01/2009
May (9)
Two conversations about Hartford - 05/28/2009
a whole new (robot) world - 05/26/2009
Where We Live...LIVE @ Real Art Ways - 05/20/2009
Where We Live Wins Major Award!!! - 05/13/2009
Bernie back in the news - 05/13/2009
"Gotta feed the people!" - 05/08/2009
Guns, guns, guns - 05/04/2009
Swine Flu, '70s Style - 05/01/2009
April (8)
WNPR News Wins Nine Awards - 04/29/2009
endless war against death? - 04/28/2009
discussions on race - 04/24/2009
The New Haven 20 and the Supreme Court - 04/21/2009
Superheroes of the literary world unite - 04/17/2009
As you may have heard... - 04/15/2009
Internet and Free Speech - 04/07/2009
Things keep happening... - 04/02/2009
March (14)
debating the blue laws - 03/30/2009
Notes from the real world - 03/26/2009
Paying for the news - 03/18/2009
a difficult topic - 03/17/2009
Talkin' about Title IX and "equity" - 03/14/2009
The Climate Changer - 03/13/2009
Got milk? - 03/12/2009
Kids Today - 03/10/2009
Where are the watchdogs? - 03/09/2009
Tagged - 03/07/2009
Further Reading on Anger - 03/06/2009
tackling feminism - 03/05/2009
Continuing the commuter rail discussion - 03/05/2009
Sunday morning...coffee and news - 03/01/2009
February (13)
Okay, now we Tweet - 02/28/2009
More sad news about newspapers - 02/25/2009
Martin Hayes provides a wakeup call - 02/23/2009
Looking at the "Blueprint" - 02/20/2009
The Future of Publishing - 02/18/2009
Envisioning a new future for the book - 02/18/2009
On the leading edge of environmental reporting - 02/16/2009
More conversation about "The Job Search" - 02/11/2009
Environmental A-Team - 02/10/2009
More budget bits & pieces - 02/06/2009
The Job Search - 02/06/2009
Not quite balancing the budget - 02/05/2009
"Only thing standing between us and primatism..." - 02/02/2009
January (14)
Bloggin' & beggin... - 01/31/2009
Feelin' the burn - 01/27/2009
"The Vision Thing" - 01/25/2009
"My name's Christopher..." - 01/23/2009
HSA discussion gets a bit derailed - 01/22/2009
Change is in the air - 01/20/2009
Intellectual Property and MLK Day - 01/19/2009
New forum for political talk - 01/16/2009
Rescues in the river - 01/16/2009
What do we mean by "qualified" teachers? - 01/15/2009
Newspapers, corruption, and other notes - 01/13/2009
Notes from a very full week - 01/09/2009
Mayors head to Hartford; Session starts under cloud - 01/06/2009
Urban renewal, and some goodbyes - 01/02/2009
2008
December (16)
Commercial radio down the drain - 12/30/2008
Time Again for Resolutions - 12/30/2008
Picking up pieces, post-holiday style - 12/26/2008
Reading up on gambling - 12/22/2008
love transcending religion - 12/18/2008
Blogs "heart" Where We Live - 12/17/2008
Jim Himes gets ready for Washington - 12/16/2008
Le Stress - 12/12/2008
Getting "Shovel-ready" - 12/11/2008
holiday retail madness - 12/10/2008
Obama infrastructure plan - what does it mean here? - 12/06/2008
Heritage, Happiness... - 12/05/2008
Still talking about race... - 12/02/2008
Interacting with NPR - 12/01/2008
Back to Blogging - 12/01/2008
November (12)
Water Under the Bridge? - 11/20/2008
Forest for the trees - 11/17/2008
Things I like: Friday edition - 11/14/2008
Talkin' about "Aftermath" - 11/13/2008
Generally Confused about Semantics... - 11/10/2008
Memories of Joe - 11/10/2008
Election Photo Blog: Shays Says Goodbye - 11/08/2008
Memories of dry cleaning, hot irons, etc. - 11/07/2008
Lieberman meets with Reid, calls for unity - 11/06/2008
A War Correspondent and a Community Organizer - 11/06/2008
Election night emotion all around - 11/05/2008
90 percent turnout! Really? - 11/04/2008
October (31)
Political Futures Markets - 10/31/2008
"Swingin'" in Suffield - 10/30/2008
Blogging about "Blogging Around the World" - 10/28/2008
Getting the Skinny on Health Care with Julie Rovner - 10/28/2008
The economic crisis hits home - 10/28/2008
Political analyst Bill Curry on trial - 10/27/2008
The Countdown Begins... - 10/25/2008
Human stories, and a blessed break from politics - 10/23/2008
Getting politicians "on the record" part 2 - 10/22/2008
Shays answers (some) questions on economy - 10/22/2008
More than just debates... - 10/21/2008
Happy Birthday Webster! - 10/20/2008
Shays, Himes debate…and read aloud with the audience - 10/17/2008
Debate reactions? - 10/15/2008
Speaking of angry... - 10/15/2008
"Bad Money" indeed, says Kevin Phillips - 10/15/2008
First District race flies under radar - 10/14/2008
Shays, Himes take off gloves in first debate - 10/14/2008
First District race flies under radar - 10/14/2008
Welcome! - 10/13/2008
Election 2008: Run by the polls - 10/13/2008
How cool is this? "Where We Blog" Live! - 10/13/2008
Murphy, Cappiello spar on bailout, fundraising - 10/10/2008
Nader energizes high school crowd, jaded host - 10/09/2008
Politics becomes a grind - 10/07/2008
$700 Billion...what to do? - 10/06/2008
Courtney still not sure on bailout package - 10/03/2008
Talking immigration with Joe Visconti - 10/02/2008
Shout out from Courant's "Capitol Watch" - 10/01/2008
September (3)
Anger over the "bailout" - 09/29/2008
Debut of "Where We Blog" - 09/29/2008
January (2)
Where We Live Listener Photos: Winter in Connecticut - 01/15/2008
Senior Poets Discuss their Art - 01/14/2008