Kathleen McCarty is the ranking member of Education, and she joined Gary Byron to talk about the new plan released by the Gov's office to get kids back in school for this upcoming school year.

CT Political analyst John Ellis chatted with Gary about election security and today's presidential primary. Then, News 8 Meteorologist Joe Fury joined the show to discuss next week's weather, and told us this was the wettest March ever! George Agnelli stopped by to talk about the difference between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, and Dominic Rapini called in from North Haven's polling station to discuss the importance of casting a ballot today!

ENATOR TONI BOUCHER, will talk about: Connecticut is one of nine states that had a smaller population in fiscal year 2017-18, marking a fifth consecutive year of decline, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The Nutmeg State had 3,572,665 residents between July 1, 2017, and July 2018, representing a loss of 1,215 residents, or less than a half percent decline. Meantime, the U.S. population increased 0.6 percent due to natural increase of births over deaths and slightly higher international migration. Connecticut, where population peaked in 2013 at 3,594,915, was the only New England state that recorded a lower population last year. Other states with declining populations were New York (down 48,510), Illinois (45,116), West Virginia (11,216), Louisiana (10,840), Hawaii (3,712), Mississippi (3,133), Alaska (2,348) and Wyoming (1,197), federal officials said. Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory, lost 129,848 people, or 3.9 percent, for the year. Nevada and Idaho were the country's fastest-growing states last year with population increases of about 2.1 percent. Trailing were Utah (up 1.9 percent), Arizona (1.7 percent) and Florida and Washington (1.5 percent).