John DeCarlo is the former Chief of Police in Branford and a professor over at the University of New Haven, and he joined Gary Byron to talk about policing in this country, mental health among officers, and what can be changed in a positive way.
Doctor J. Craig Allen, Hartford Healthcare addiction medicine doctor will talk about South Windsor joins towns in looking to change minimum age of tobacco purchases and states that More and more Connecticut towns are looking into making it illegal for teens to buy cigarettes and other nicotine products. Hartford Healthcare addiction medicine Doctor J. Craig Allen believes it's a positive trend. “One of the things raising the smoking age is it takes the cigarettes and it takes the nicotine products out of the hands of high school seniors,” said Allen. Hartford leaders recently raised the minimum age to buy nicotine products from 18 to 21. Now communities like Bloomfield, Wallingford, and East Hartford are exploring similar moves. He spoke to Brad and Paul about this
Frances Padilla, the President of the Universal Health Care Foundation of CT, discusses legislative initiatives to make healthcare more affordable with Brad.
Gary Byron talks to Don McLean about the 50th anniversary of American Pie!
The observance commemorates the fateful day in 1959 when four young lives were cut short. When Don McLean’s “American Pie” hit the airwaves in 1971, the world came to know the day as “The Day The Music Died’ from the line in the lyrics which was in part inspired by the tragic event which took the lives of the four. Another line in the song reflected on the music of Buddy Holly & The Crickets.
Don McLean’s American Pie is one of the 20th Century’s most iconic songs
