Frankie Graziano
@frankiegraziano.bsky.social
Husband to Colleen and dad to Charlie and Annie. The host of The Wheelhouse on Connecticut Public. I am an ambassador of bringing politics to the people. And of Torrington, Connecticut. Calabrese
NEW Wheelhouse Wednesday Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. focuses on community engagement. We’ll talk to CT-based community organizer Kerry Ellington and Hahrie Han of Johns Hopkins University about what happens when people get involved, rather than relying on politicians to handle critical work in the community.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
NEW Wheelhouse Wednesday Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. focuses on community engagement. We’ll talk to CT-based community organizer Kerry Ellington and Hahrie Han of Johns Hopkins University about what happens when people get involved, rather than relying on politicians to handle critical work in the community.
This week’s Wheelhouse features commentary on political violence from Attorney General William Tong and State Rep. Corey Paris (D-Stamford).
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October 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This week’s Wheelhouse features commentary on political violence from Attorney General William Tong and State Rep. Corey Paris (D-Stamford).
Here’s how to engage with 🐙The Wheelhouse 🐙
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
🕸️ CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
Here’s how to engage with 🐙The Wheelhouse 🐙
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
🕸️ CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
Here’s how to engage with 🐙The Wheelhouse 🐙
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
🕸️ CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
🕸️ CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Here’s how to engage with 🐙The Wheelhouse 🐙
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
🕸️ CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
🕸️ CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
On an all-NEW episode of The Wheelhouse, Wednesday October 8 on Connecticut Public, with a government shutdown and increased political violence, the temperature of American political debate is at a boiling point. What can be done to foster civil political discourse …
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
On an all-NEW episode of The Wheelhouse, Wednesday October 8 on Connecticut Public, with a government shutdown and increased political violence, the temperature of American political debate is at a boiling point. What can be done to foster civil political discourse …
NEW Wheelhouse, Wednesday October 1 on @ctpublic.bsky.social. What’ll it take to keep the @ctsunwnbanews.bsky.social in Connecticut? @blumenthal.senate.gov (D-Conn.) addresses a letter he wrote to the WNBA. We’ll also talk to him about the prospect of a government shutdown.
September 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
NEW Wheelhouse, Wednesday October 1 on @ctpublic.bsky.social. What’ll it take to keep the @ctsunwnbanews.bsky.social in Connecticut? @blumenthal.senate.gov (D-Conn.) addresses a letter he wrote to the WNBA. We’ll also talk to him about the prospect of a government shutdown.
Here’s how to engage:
☎️ 888-720-9677
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💻 CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
🍎 wherever you get your podcasts
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
💻 CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
🍎 wherever you get your podcasts
September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Here’s how to engage:
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
💻 CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
🍎 wherever you get your podcasts
☎️ 888-720-9677
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
💻 CTPublic.org/Wheelhouse
📻 90.5 FM+
🍎 wherever you get your podcasts
The Wheelhouse, Wednesday September 24, 9am features an interview with outgoing CT Office of Early Childhood commissioner Beth Bye about her experience running a department she helped create, one week before she retires from state service.
September 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The Wheelhouse, Wednesday September 24, 9am features an interview with outgoing CT Office of Early Childhood commissioner Beth Bye about her experience running a department she helped create, one week before she retires from state service.
The Wheelhouse, Wednesday September 10, 9am features a conversation with New York Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli and local epidemiologist Dr. Lynn Sosa about preventing illness in Connecticut and beyond with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now in charge of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
September 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The Wheelhouse, Wednesday September 10, 9am features a conversation with New York Times reporter Apoorva Mandavilli and local epidemiologist Dr. Lynn Sosa about preventing illness in Connecticut and beyond with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now in charge of the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
On a new episode of The Wheelhouse, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) speaks about immigration and opens up about our democracy.
Here’s how you may catch the episode:
📻 90.5, 88.5, 89.1, 91.3, 103.7 FM in CT
🕸️ ctpublic.org/wheelhouse
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
Here’s how you may catch the episode:
📻 90.5, 88.5, 89.1, 91.3, 103.7 FM in CT
🕸️ ctpublic.org/wheelhouse
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
September 3, 2025 at 2:24 AM
On a new episode of The Wheelhouse, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) speaks about immigration and opens up about our democracy.
Here’s how you may catch the episode:
📻 90.5, 88.5, 89.1, 91.3, 103.7 FM in CT
🕸️ ctpublic.org/wheelhouse
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
Here’s how you may catch the episode:
📻 90.5, 88.5, 89.1, 91.3, 103.7 FM in CT
🕸️ ctpublic.org/wheelhouse
🎥 YouTube.com/ConnecticutPublic
The Wheelhouse airs Wednesday at 9am on Connecticut Public. It’ll feature conversations on local school budgets, federal budget negotiations, and year-long schooling.
August 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The Wheelhouse airs Wednesday at 9am on Connecticut Public. It’ll feature conversations on local school budgets, federal budget negotiations, and year-long schooling.
The next episode of #TheWheelhouseCT taps into author Kurt Gray and his understanding of anthropology to learn how moral judgments are driven by fear of harm can help bridge political divides.
August 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The next episode of #TheWheelhouseCT taps into author Kurt Gray and his understanding of anthropology to learn how moral judgments are driven by fear of harm can help bridge political divides.
NEW Wheelhouse on Wednesday at 9 am on @ctpublic.bsky.social, Akhil Reed Amar, Dan Haar, and Colin McEnroe talk age and politics ahead of congressional races in the 2026 midterms. @ctmirror.org reporters Jenna Carlesso and Andrew Brown will also appear re: CT residents’ exposure to lead.
August 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
NEW Wheelhouse on Wednesday at 9 am on @ctpublic.bsky.social, Akhil Reed Amar, Dan Haar, and Colin McEnroe talk age and politics ahead of congressional races in the 2026 midterms. @ctmirror.org reporters Jenna Carlesso and Andrew Brown will also appear re: CT residents’ exposure to lead.
Tune into The Wheelhouse tomorrow at 9am to learn more about what state officials in CT are doing to preserve health care coverage and food benefits for those in need in the wake of federal passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill.” CT DSS commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves discusses the state’s response.
July 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Tune into The Wheelhouse tomorrow at 9am to learn more about what state officials in CT are doing to preserve health care coverage and food benefits for those in need in the wake of federal passage of the “Big Beautiful Bill.” CT DSS commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves discusses the state’s response.
📍Where Gov. Ned Lamont will be this Wednesday — and how you can reach him…
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@ctpublic.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
📍Where Gov. Ned Lamont will be this Wednesday — and how you can reach him…
@ctpublic.bsky.social
@ctpublic.bsky.social
Wednesday at 9 am on The Wheelhouse, we’ll discuss how Latino and Latina musicians weave political commentary into their art as inspired by a recent announcement that Yale professor Albert Laguna would teach a class at the University about Bad Bunny.
June 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Wednesday at 9 am on The Wheelhouse, we’ll discuss how Latino and Latina musicians weave political commentary into their art as inspired by a recent announcement that Yale professor Albert Laguna would teach a class at the University about Bad Bunny.
Connecticut lawmakers have created a universal child care endowment that’ll eventually allow many families to access free PreK, while others will have their child care costs capped at 7 percent.
June 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Connecticut lawmakers have created a universal child care endowment that’ll eventually allow many families to access free PreK, while others will have their child care costs capped at 7 percent.
NEW Wheelhouse Wednesday, June 4 at 9 a.m. with a preview of the last day of the regular lawmaking session in Connecticut. WSHU reporter Ebong Udoma, WFSB chief political reporter Susan Raff, and CT Mirror co-founder Mark Pazniokas will analyze bills awaiting final passage. ??? Call 888-720-9677
June 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM
NEW Wheelhouse Wednesday, June 4 at 9 a.m. with a preview of the last day of the regular lawmaking session in Connecticut. WSHU reporter Ebong Udoma, WFSB chief political reporter Susan Raff, and CT Mirror co-founder Mark Pazniokas will analyze bills awaiting final passage. ??? Call 888-720-9677
Proposed changes to Medicaid in the "Big Beautiful Bill" and what that means for Connecticut...
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@ctpublic.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Proposed changes to Medicaid in the "Big Beautiful Bill" and what that means for Connecticut...
@ctpublic.bsky.social
@ctpublic.bsky.social
Watch and listen to an all NEW Wheelhouse on Connecticut Public this Wednesday at 9am for a conversation on state and federal Medicaid funding. It features my colleague Lisa Hagen (also from the CT Mirror) and Joan Alker of Georgetown University.
May 27, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Watch and listen to an all NEW Wheelhouse on Connecticut Public this Wednesday at 9am for a conversation on state and federal Medicaid funding. It features my colleague Lisa Hagen (also from the CT Mirror) and Joan Alker of Georgetown University.
The Wheelhouse is all-new Wednesday at 9am on Connecticut Public. It features Jeffrey Fletcher of The Ruby and Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum, Brakkton Booker of @politico.com, Elizabeth Hinton of @yale.edu, and Lorenzo Boyd of the University of New Haven.
May 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The Wheelhouse is all-new Wednesday at 9am on Connecticut Public. It features Jeffrey Fletcher of The Ruby and Calvin Fletcher African American History Museum, Brakkton Booker of @politico.com, Elizabeth Hinton of @yale.edu, and Lorenzo Boyd of the University of New Haven.
The intersection of politics and higher education on an all NEW Wheelhouse, Wednesday, May 14 at 9 a.m. on Connecticut Public.
May 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The intersection of politics and higher education on an all NEW Wheelhouse, Wednesday, May 14 at 9 a.m. on Connecticut Public.
The Wheelhouse is new tomorrow with a look at various political perspectives. We’ll start the show with some fresh content on the erosion of trust in government in America, then re-visit some previously recorded testimony to help listeners understand how our experiences shape our views.
May 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The Wheelhouse is new tomorrow with a look at various political perspectives. We’ll start the show with some fresh content on the erosion of trust in government in America, then re-visit some previously recorded testimony to help listeners understand how our experiences shape our views.
A NEW Wheelhouse premieres Wednesday at 9 a.m. on @ctpublic.bsky.social. The White House is rejecting trans identity. What’s being done in response? The show features interviews with Orion Rummler of @19thnews.org, Evan Urquhart of @assignedmedia.org, and @gladlaw.bsky.social Ricardo Martinez.
April 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A NEW Wheelhouse premieres Wednesday at 9 a.m. on @ctpublic.bsky.social. The White House is rejecting trans identity. What’s being done in response? The show features interviews with Orion Rummler of @19thnews.org, Evan Urquhart of @assignedmedia.org, and @gladlaw.bsky.social Ricardo Martinez.