Frankie Graziano

House Speaker Matt Ritter, cautions legislators about making personal attacks after statements in opposition to proposed housing legislation by Connecticut Rep. Tony Scott, a Republican on the Housing Committee, were deemed personal. Scott was stopped and cautioned twice by Ritter November 12, 2025.

Free speech is in focus at this year’s Wheelhouse Live event amid significant shifts in the world of broadcast media. If free press is the cornerstone of American Democracy, what do the Trump administration’s attacks on late night TV hosts – and Congress’ claw back of funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting – tell us about the future of American politics and pop culture?

FILE: Senator Richard Blumenthal speaks at the State Office Building as The Supreme Court in Hartford, Connecticut on March 26, 2024.

College Row on the campus of Wesleyan University along High Street in Middletown, Connecticut October 28, 2017.

The Healing the Generations 2026 conference offers providers from various care settings a venue to talk about inter-generational trauma.

FILE: Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., references Grok while questioning Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness hearing titled "Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan," in Russell building on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.

FILE - Environmental advocates gather at the capitol building in Hartford on January 28, 2026 to demand fossil fuel companies pay for climate disasters through a climate superfund.

FILE: In this photo illustration, printouts from the Epstein files released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) are shown on February 13, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. The DOJ has published nearly 3.5 million documents, many heavily redacted, and more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

FILE: University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut. Today on The Wheelhouse, we hear how students at the University of Hartford are keeping up with the political process.

FILE: Protesters clasp and raise hands as they chant “Shame on Yale” at a rally to oppose Yale New Haven Health’s decision not to offer gender affirming care to patients under age 19, at the New Haven Green on August 7, 2025.