What’s In a Name? November 24, 2006

What a year we’ve had for Friday Night Football!
FNF is one of the highlights of Eyewitness News, and I look forward to it every fall.
It’s fascinating to follow the different teams from all over Connecticut, and we love to talk about the mascots.
And, there are some great ones, including the Wreckers of Staples High School [...]

What an (Election) Year November 9, 2006

Election 2006 is but a memory, but what a year it was. Ever since the Lowell Weicker-Joe Lieberman battle of 1988, it had become tradition in Connecticut that Senate races be boring. Very boring. We’re talking nap-inducing snooze-fests in which the incumbents sailed to re-election with nary a ripple.
Then along came Ned Lamont, and Lieberman’s [...]

Dennis Recalls Election Days Past November 7, 2006

As you might imagine, today is one of the busiest days of the year in the Eyewitness Newsroom. Election Day brings in just about everybody who works at Broadcast House, people from all corners of the WFSB operation.
Election Day is one of my favorite days to work. It is exhilarating to watch history unfold minute [...]

Jaywalking November 4, 2006

Anyone who commutes to downtown Hartford will want to see my report on jaywalking Monday night at 11. Anyone who walks through downtownshould watch it. Yes, even the jaywalkers should see it.
Every day, jaywalkers create traffic jams. How? When the light isgreen — and the bright orange hand indicates to pedestrians they should stay put [...]