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1 week ago | ctpublic.org | Tess Terrible |Catherine Shen

By Tess Terrible, Published April 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT Today is Tax Day, and we’re talking about managing your budget in a year of constantly changing tariffs and an unpredictable marketplace. There’s a lot of questions about what to do with your money, in a time of so much financial uncertainty. But having greater financial literacy and understanding on how the economy works, could give you a little bit more ease.

2 weeks ago | ctpublic.org | Tess Terrible |Catherine Shen

By Tess Terrible, Published April 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM EDT Reading can take us on adventures beyond our own backyards but perhaps not too far!Amity Gaige is the author of Heartwood. It explores the story of one woman who gets lost on the Appalachian Trail. Did you know this trail runs through Connecticut? And Ethan Rutherford is the author of North Sun: the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther. Connecticut was once home to one of the largest whaling ports in the world.

2 weeks ago | ctpublic.org | Tess Terrible |Catherine Shen

By Tess Terrible, Published April 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM EDT It’s time to shake off the winter blues and dive into spring - spring gardening to be more specific!Today, horticulturist and host of All Things Gardening, Charlie Nardozzi joins us for the hour to answer our gardening questions and yours. Plus, we hear from those bringing gardening, farming and fresh local goods from produce to honey, to every neighborhood across Connecticut, and using gardening as a way to connect.

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Tess Terrible

By Tess Terrible, Published March 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM EDT Daylight Saving Time: it’s just losing one hour of sleep right? How bad can that be? But experts say, it goes beyond losing one hour of sleep. The practice of advancing clocks to make better use of daylight, can have long term disruptions to our circadian rhythm. That’s according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

1 month ago | ctpublic.org | Tess Terrible

By Tess Terrible, Published March 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM EDT Joe Amon / Connecticut PublicFILE: Clinical staff members in the hot zone complete the registration of patients in their cars at Saint Francis Hospital & Medical Center drive-through mobile center before the COVID-19 test is administered on March 18, 2020 in Hartford, Connecticut. This season alone, there have been over 30,000 COVID-19 cases in Connecticut.