Prudence Crandall Lecture at Connecticut’s Old State House Premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. on Connecticut Network
Thursday, March 04, 2010, 11:25:29 AM 
For Immediate Release
March 4, 2010
Contact: William A. Bevacqua
(860) 246-1553, ext. 107
william.bevacqua@cga.ct.gov
Prudence Crandall Lecture at Connecticut’s Old State House
Premieres Saturday at 8 p.m. on Connecticut Network
Hartford, CT – CT-N’s presentation of To All on Equal Terms: the Story of Prudence Crandall will debut Saturday at 8 p.m. immediately following CT-N Capitol Report. This is the final installment of the lunchtime lecture series entitles, And Justice for Some: Race and Controversy at Connecticut’s Old State House, which took place on March 3rd. Visit ct-n.com starting Friday afternoon for additional airtimes or to watch online.
As a young teacher in Canterbury, Prudence Crandall thought that all young ladies should have the chance to attend school. When she opened her school in 1833, the African American girls who attended, faced discrimination from the residents of the town and Crandall was eventually forced to close her school. Those events and the ones that followed years after helped shaped issues of race and education in Connecticut more than 150 years before Sheff v. O’Neill.
The lecture is moderated by veteran Connecticut broadcaster Diane Smith and features remarks by Karin Peterson, Museum Director of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Smith moderates a panel discussion with Peterson, Theodore Sergi, Interim President and CEO of the MetroHartford Alliance and former state Commissioner of Education, and Teresa Younger, Executive Director of Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.
Located in Hartford, Connecticut’s Old State House invites visitors of all ages to reawaken their own civic engagement and awareness through authentic, educational and inspiring visitor experiences. The building served as the Constitution State’s original seat of government from 1796 to 1873. It serves today as a physical and virtual classroom, teaching lessons of citizenship past and present and enriching Connecticut’s communities as a laboratory where people of all ages can interact and discover that their voices matter, and that words, ideas, persuasion and debate really can change minds – and quite possibly, the world. For more information, visit Connecticut’s Old State House online at www.ctoldstatehouse.org.
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03-04-10 Prudence Crandall Advisory.pdf
Jobs Creation, Federal Transportation Dollars and the future of Keno in Connecticut This Week on Capitol Report
Thursday, March 04, 2010, 10:10:10 AM
March 4, 2010
Contact: William A. Bevacqua
(860) 246-1553, ext. 107
william.bevacqua@cga.ct.gov
Jobs Creation, Federal Transportation Dollars and the future of Keno in Connecticut
This Week on CT-N Capitol Report
Hartford, CT – Starting at 7 p.m. this Friday, Connecticut Network viewers can get the latest on the state’s efforts to jump-start Connecticut’s economy in this week’s episode of Capitol Report, the network’s week-in-review highlights program. Senate President Don Williams appeared before the Finance, Revenue & Bonding committee on Monday to support the Senate’s cornerstone jobs creation bill aimed at helping small businesses throughout the state. Governor Rell announced her latest deficit mitigation plan later that same day.
Also featured in Capitol Report this week are excerpts from Monday’s Transportation Committee oversight hearing of the state Department of Transportation, where DOT Commissioner Joseph Marie addressed concerns over Connecticut’s difficulties in securing federal TIGER stimulus grants for transportation projects. This episode also includes highlights from a Public Safety & Security Committee public hearing in which the governor’s proposal to generate additional state revenue by allowing Keno in Connecticut was discussed, and other events in state government this week.
Capitol Report summarizes the activity at the State Capitol during the week, using voice over and graphics to combine history, context, and next steps in the process with full-length excerpts from the week’s proceedings. The program premieres on CT-N every Friday night at 7:00 p.m., then rebroadcasts at Noon and 7:00 p.m. on Saturdays, 8:00 p.m. on Sundays, and 6:00 a.m. Monday mornings; check CT-N’s online program schedule for additional airtimes. Each episode runs between 30 and 60 minutes.
Episodes of Capitol Report are also available online, in keeping with the network’s seamless integration of telecast and interactive content. Visit www.ct-n.com/CR for OnDemand and podcast downloads of each episode, annotated with synopses and links to related gavel-to-gavel coverage.
CT-N is available full-time on expanded basic cable statewide. Visit ct-n.com to find the channel location for the network in your community or to watch online. All Connecticut Network programming is closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
Winner of the national Sunshine Award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Open Government Award from the Connecticut Foundation for Open Government, Connecticut Network is the state’s source for complete and balanced television and webcast coverage of state government and public affairs. For more information, become a fan of CT-N on Facebook, follow the network at www.twitter.com/CTNetworkTV or visit CT-N’s website at
www.ct-n.com.
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03-04-10 This Week on Capitol Report.pdf
