AMY PARMENTER, MANAGER, PUBLIC AND GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS AAA ALLIED GROUP, spoke to Brad and Paul about Cold Weather Turns 'Inconvenience' into Emergency. AAA is warning motorists that the extreme cold coming in, the record number of drivers on the road and also the number of vehicles that will be sitting idle for days, will result in thousands of drivers – and their passengers – being stranded in extremely dangerous conditions.
State Sen. Tony Hwang, spoke to Brad Davis about a Channel 3 story below and how the DOT needs to prioritize the projects it spends our tax $$$ on. "What we have right now a mish mash of projects that have no prioritization, no sense of project one through ten, one through twenty,” said Senator Tony Hwang.
Grocery stores have undergone a lot of rule changes and regulations, and Wayne Pesce from CT Food Association joined Gary on the air to talk about it.
Doctor J. Craig Allen, Hartford Healthcare addiction medicine doctor will talk about South Windsor joins towns in looking to change minimum age of tobacco purchases and states that More and more Connecticut towns are looking into making it illegal for teens to buy cigarettes and other nicotine products. Hartford Healthcare addiction medicine Doctor J. Craig Allen believes it's a positive trend. “One of the things raising the smoking age is it takes the cigarettes and it takes the nicotine products out of the hands of high school seniors,” said Allen. Hartford leaders recently raised the minimum age to buy nicotine products from 18 to 21. Now communities like Bloomfield, Wallingford, and East Hartford are exploring similar moves. He spoke to Brad and Paul about this
