Lets Talk About It guests with Dennis O'Brien and Susan Johnson
Fridays 5:10-6pm on 14/WILI

 
Upcoming guests:
 
May 17:   Leigh Duffy and Norman Janes of the Windham No Freeze Shelter 
May 24:   Elkin Espitia-Loaiza talks about the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance Rally in Hartford on June 1
 
Past guests: 
 
May 10: UConn Professor Larry Goodheart & Bill Potvin talk about their support for Court Martial defendant Bradley Manning
May 3: Representatives of the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum talk about this Saturday's Annual Grand Opening
April 26: Mike Nelson, Studio Supervisor, Charter TV, North Windham
April 19: Norma Boujouen, co-author of "The Puerto Rican Experience in Willimantic" April 12: ECSU Associate Professor Ricardo Perez, talking about the Latino Migration Project Exhibit at the Windham Textile and History Museum.
April 5:   Kevin Counihan, CEO of "Access Health Connecticut," the CT Health Insurance Exchange

March 29:   Jean deSmet, Chair, Windham Energy Commission talks about "Solarize Windham & Mansfield"
March 22:  Gary Osbrey, President & Morning Show Host, WINY Radio, Putnam
March 15: UConn Economics Professor Steve Lanza, Executive Editor of The Connecticut Economy, a UConn publication
March 8: Windham Human Services Director Mary DeMarco talks about the Windham Senior Citizens Center
March 1:  Windham Town Counsilor Dawn Niles
 
Feb 22: Anne Hulick, Susan Eastwood and John Murphy of the Coalition For A Safe and Healthy Connecticut
Feb 15:  Windham Town Manager Neil Beets
Feb 8:  Windham Town Councilors Mark Doyle and Tom DeVivo 
Feb 1:  Windham Board of Education members Murphy Sewall and Tracy Lambert
 
Jan 25: Downtown advocates Lynn Duval and Karen Gilbransen talk about Romantic Willimantic's Chocolate Festival
Jan 18: Norwich City Historian Dale Plummer talks about the Emancipation Proclamation and Abraham Lincoln in Norwich, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Jan 11: Doctor Fred Shapiro from the First Baptist Church in Willimantic, and local realtor and stained glass artist Jennifer Clark
Jan 4, 2013: Representative Betsy Ritter of Waterford, Deputy Speaker of the State House of Representatives
 
Dec 28, 2012:  Willimantic VFW Veterans Advocate and counselor Bill "Woody" Woodbury
Dec 21:  Windham Mayor Ernie Eldridge and Santa Claus
Dec 14: Lynn Duval and Bruce John talk about the new Downtown Willimantic website
Dec 7:  Becky McEnery of UConn and Director John Baine of the Windham Theatre Guild talk about  "It's A Wonderful Life"

Nov 30:  Photographer Harrison Judd and Curator June Bisantz talk about the "End Of An Era" exhibit now at Artspace
Nov 23:  Windham Charter Revision Chair Dawn Niles
Nov 16: Windham Councilor Tom DeVivo, Chair of the Magnet School Building Committee
Nov 9:  Post-election analysis
November 2:  Election preview with Tom DeVivo and Mark Doyle
October 26:  47th District State Representative candidate Noah Enslow of Sprague
October 19:  Windham Board of Education member Tracy LambertOctober 12:  Canterbury First Selectman Brian Sear
October 5:  Windham Democratic Registrar of Voters Bunny Lescoe

September 28: Norwich State Representative Chris Coutu
September 21:  WILI afternoon newscaster John Silva
September 14: Denny Gates from Gates GMC/Nissan
September 7: Carol Santa Lucia and Barbara McClintock from the Windham Free Library

August 31: Susan Collins from the Windham Board of Education
August 24: UConn Professor Ken Noll discusses "The God Particle"
August 17: Sprague First Selectwoman Cathy Osten
August 10: Steve Lanza, Executive Editor of "The Connecticut Economy," a publication of UConn
August 3:  Paula Stahl, Windham Planning and Zoning Commission Chair

July 27:  J. Michael Callahan, Chairman of the Windham Water Commission
July 20: Chris McNaboe, Executive Director, Horizons of South Windham
July 13:  Windham Players Alumni Jim Baran & Steve Kaminski talk about the SPARKS Summer Camp Program
July 6:  Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen

June 29:  Retiring Windham Public Library Director Ted Perch
June 22:  WILI morning man and Boom Box Parade Grand Marshal Wayne Norman
June 15: Windham Town Councilor Tom DeVivo
June 8: Windham Town Councilor Mark Doyle
June 1:  Pam and Bob Horrocks from the Willimantic Victorian Neighborhood Association

May 25:  John Murphy, Democratic candidate for the 8th House District seat (Coventry, Columbia, Vernon, Tolland)
May 18:  Jason Courtemanche, Director of the Connecticut Writing Project at UConn
May 11:  Killingly State Representative Mae Flexer
May 4:  Town of Sprague First Selectman Catherine Osten
 
April 27:  Willimantic Fire Chief Marc Scrivener
April 13:  Mark Doyle from the Windham Town Council
April 6: Luz Osuba from the Windham Board of Education
 
March 30: Jamey Bell, Executive Director, Connecticut Voices For Children
March 23: Robin Rice, Vice President of the Windham Theatre Guild
March 16:  Dan Hill, President of the Willimantic Little League
March 9: Brian Anderson of Mansfield, lobbyist at Council 4 AFSCME
March 2:  Kristin Fortier and Donna Nicolino:  Opposing the Supreme Court Concept of the "Corporate Person"   
 
February 24:  Michalene Bedard, Director of the Windham/Willimantic Child Care and Family Development Programs, Inc.
 
February 17: Dawn Niles, chair of the Windham Charter Revision Commission
 
February 10: State Representative Linda Orange of Colchester (D-48), who may represent portions of Windham and Mansfield next year
February 3:  Dr. J. A. Camille Vautour, President of Project Opening Doors at EASTCONN

January 27: Allison Breault and Deb Hinchey of VNA East
January 20:  Windham High School teacher Vincent Iovine, leader of the Windham Players

January 13: UConn Professor Steve Lanza, Managing Editor of "The Connecticut Economy"

January 6, 2012: Murphy Sewall, Chairman, Windham Board of Education

December 30, 2011:  Fifth District Congressman Christopher Murphy, Democratic candidate for U. S. Senate
December 23: Sprague First Selectwoman Catherine Osten, Member of Governor Malloy's "Two Storms Committee"
December 16: Susan Bysiewicz, Democratic candidate for U. S. Senate
December 9:  Bill Potvin from Hosmer Mountain Bottling Company
December 2:  UConn Microbiology Professor Ken Noll

November 25: Lets Talk About it broadcasts live from Willimantic's Festival Of Lights Parade

November 18: Windham High School teacher Vincent Iovine with some of
        Windham High School's Windham Players
November 11: New Windham Town Council members Tom DeVivo and Mark Doyle
November 4:  Windham Town Council candidates Christel Donahue, Tom DeVivo, Mark Doyle, and Erika Haynes
 
October 28: Windham Board of Education candidates Luz Osuba, Nancy Tinker, Mary Gallucci, and Doug LaryOctober 21: Windham Board of Finance candidates Anna Crawford, Lynn Ide, Tom White, Charlie Kratt, and Dave Hemenway
October 14: Windham Town Council candidates Tom DeVivo, Charlie Krich, Christel Donahue, Mark Doyle, Erica Haynes, and Diane Rayhall
 
October 6: Windham Board of Education candidates Nancy Tinker, Doug Lary, and Luz Osuba
 
September 30: Steve Lanza, Executive Editor of "The Connecticut Economy"
September 23: Denny Gates of Gates GMC/Nissan
September 16: The Magnet School Building Committee talks about the 9/17/11 Groundbreaking
September 9: Barbara McGrath and Barbara McClintock from the Windham Free Library
September 2: Ray Alexrod talks about the 20th anniversary of the Connecticut Eastern Railroad Musuem
 
August 26: Connecticut 5th District Congressman Chris Murphy
August 19: Education issues with Windham Board of Education member Paula Haney
August 12: UConn microbiologist and Windham Theatre Guild performer Kenneth Noll
August 5: Windham PZC Chair Paula Stahl and Windham Code Enforcement Director Matt Vertefeuille

July 29: Windham Ethics Board Chairman Doug Lary
July 22: Dr. Nancy Cappello, advocate for early detection and treatment of breast cancer
July 15: Former Windham First Selectman Jean deSmet talks about the Windham Neighbor To Neighbor Clean Energy Corps
July 8: Windham Town Manager Neil Beets
July 1: WILI morning man and Boom Box Parade Grand Marshal, Wayne Norman

June 24: State Representative William Tong, Democratic candidate for U. S. Senate
June 17: Tom DeVivo and Nancy Tinker of the Magnet School Building Committee
June 10: Second District U. S. Congressman Joe Courtney
June 3: Windham Board of Finance Chair Barbara McGrath

May 27: Lourdes Montalvo of Willimantic, recently appointed as Statewide Coordinator of Constituent Services and Community Outreach of the Office of the Secretary of State
May 20: WINCOG Senior Planner Jana Butts talks about housing on Main Street, Willimantic
May 13: Jeanette DeJesus, Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health
May 6: Former State Representatives John Lescoe and Andy Carey
remember Eugene "Jake" Lewis

April 29: ECSU President Elsa Nunez
April 22: "Let's Talk About It" 6th anniversary show with Tom DeVivo and
Mark Doyle
April 15: Chris Donovan, Speaker of the Connecticut House of
Representatives
April 8: Former Romantic Willimantic "Cupid" Jason Altieri talking about an
April 14th "Community Conversation on Education"

March 25: QVCC-Willimantic administrators Jose Aponte and Bob Fernandez
March 18: Secretary of State Denise Merrill
March 11: Roger Adams and Diane Nadeau from the Windham Region Chamber of Commerce
March 4: Author, UConn English Professor, and Hartford Courant columnist Gina Barreca

February 25: Judy Donnelly & Nathan White, CT Optics & Photonics Association
February 18: Windham Town Councilor Charlie Krich
February 11: June Bisantz of "The Screen Project" and Windham Board of Education Member Mark Doyle
February 4 Windham/Colchester Judge of Probate John McGrath

January 28: Windham Town Councilor Erika Haynes
January 21: Brendan Sharkey, Majority Leader, State House of Representatives
January 14: UConn professor Steve Lanza, Executive Editor of "The Connecticut Economy"
January 7, 2011: WILI newscaster Lincoln Phillips


December 31, 2010: Tom DeVivo and Mark Doyle--Windham's year in review December 17: Windham Town Manager Neal Beets
December 10: Sara and Donald Hassler from WILI's "The Responsible Pet Owner" show
December 3: UConn Microbiologist Ken Noll talks about microbes and Mark Twain

November 26: Commentary & coverage of "The Parade of Lights," with Dawn Niles
November 19: ECSU Softball Coach Diana Pepin
November 12: Local entertainers and philanthropists Bruce John and Jason Altieri
November 5: Quinebaug Valley Community College President Ross Tomlin
October 29: State Representative Susan Johnson/Republican Candidate John French
October 22: Kevin Lembo, Democratic Party Candidate for State Comptroller
October 15: Congressman Joe Courtney
October 8: John Hallbergh, Independent Candidate for State Senate, 29th District
October 1: State Senate President Don Williams
 
September 24: Attorney Phil Tegeler and Liz Dupont-Diehl of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council
September 17: Mark Doyle, Tom DeVivo and Dennis O'Brien talk about the state of the town and take phone calls
September 10: Windham Board of Finance Chair Barbara McGrath
September 3: George Jepsen, Democratic Party nominee for Connecticut Attorney General

August 27: Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green
August 20: Windham Superintendent of Schools Ana Ortiz and Natchaug School Principal Jeff Wihbey
August 13: Windham Magnet School building committee member Mark Phelps
August 6: State Health Care Advocate Kevin Lembo, Democratic Party candidate for State Comptroller
 
July 30: Danbury Mayor Mark Broughton, Republican Party candidate for Lt. Governor
July 23: State Comptroller Nancy Wyman, Democratic Party candidate for Lt. Governor
July 16: Mary Glassman, Democratic Party candidate for Lt. Governor
July 9: Mark Doyle and Murphy Sewall from the Windham Board
of Education
July 2: New Windham High School principal Steve Merlino

June 25: West Hartford State Representative Andrew Fleischman, House Chair, Education Committee
June 18: Hamden State Representative Brendan Sharkey, House Chair, Planning & Development Committee
June 11: State Senator Edith Prague
June 4: Commissioner of Consumer Protection Gerry Farrell, Republican candidate for Secretary of State
 
May 28: Second District U. S. Congressman Joe Courtney
May 21: Windham Planning and Zoning Commission Chair Paula Stahl
May 14: Windham Probate Judge candidate John McGrath
May 7: Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Dan Malloy

April 30: Let's Talk About It's 5th anniversary show: Tom DeVivo from the Windham Board of Finance
April 23: Mansfield/Chaplin Legislative candidate Gregg Haddad
April 16: Coventry State Representative Joan Lewis
April 9: Windham Board of Finance Chair Barbara McGrath
April 2: ECSU Professor Dan Switchenko, who's a member of the Windham Board of Education
 
March 26: State Comptroller Nancy Wyman of Tolland
March 19: WILI afternoon newscaster Jesse Collins
March 12: Windham Town Manager Neal Beets
March 5: Ned Lamont, Democratic candidate for CT Governor

February 26: Jim Baran and Lynn Sloan from the Windham Performing Arts Alumni, and Professor Steve Lanza, Editor "The Connecticut Economy"
February 19: Local entertainer Bruce John
February 12: Congressman Joe Courtney
February 5: Joe Dinkin, Communications Director, CT Working Families

January 29: State Senate President Don Williams
January 22: State House Majority Leader Denise Merrill of Mansfield
January 15: Windham Selectman Kevin Donohue
January 8, 2010: Mark Doyle and Bill Stover from the Windham Public Schools

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