Brought to WNPR by me today in connection with my appearance on “The Wheelhouse” this morning. Purchased from (local business) Tastease in Hartford. You can live under the thumb of Dunkin or you can seek out something better.  (photographed by Catie Talarski)

Another reason God will punish us.

MONDAY: Are you REALLY better off in Texas? Gov. Rick Perry is blasting through Connecticut and New York, trailing a comet-like plume of TV advertisements promising employers a better life in the tax-free, unregulated Promised Land of Texas. Is it really that much better?  Don’t they have water shortages? We’ll tak to Texas journalists [...]

So I’ve been thinking a lot about the fan reactions to this season’s “Game of Thrones,” especially its penultimate episode, the so-called Red Wedding.

Three sympathetic characters were unexpectedly murdered.  I jumped on Twitter minutes after the initial airing. People were nuts.

It was unusual.   And I wondered: Are [...]

And if so, how?

Gov. Rick Perry is coming to Connecticut and New York on a naked job-poaching bootleg.

I’m guessing he won’t be talking about water shortages.  (Hey, Texans! Want water? Boy, do we [...]

(As always, listen to the Large Band’s whole jam.)

Mary Drexler is executive director of the Connecticut Council on Problem Gambling.  When Connecticut considers a big move like adding keno to the gambling menu, it’s her job to attend all the public hearings and committee meetings at which the change is discussed.  It’s her job to offer testimony on the bill and to [...]

This week’s column. [Mark Mirko photo]

MONDAY: Keno – This highly addictive, low-payout game was passed very quietly in the CT state legislature, without public debate and with agreed-upon cuts of the profits (tribes will get 12.5% of revenue – how and why that number was [...]