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Grateful and Humbled

By Dennis House on 11/20/2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Where does the time go? This year I am celebrating 25 years at WFSB! It has been a great ride with some great people at a great television station. I would not […]

A Very Rewarding Job

By Dennis House on 11/06/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

  I just finished up a fantastic season coaching my son’s flag football team.  We won some and lost some, but most importantly the kids had fun, and I did, too. Teaching […]

Halloween 2017

By Dennis House on 11/01/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Halloween 2017 was awesome. Mild weather meant hordes of trick-or-treaters and some great costumes in our neighborhood. My son was Zalgo, my daughter Wonder Woman, Kara a skeleton, and I was a […]

Bhargava Takes on Drew as Campaign 2018 Heats Up

By Dennis House on 10/27/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

  Sunday on Face the State we continue our look at the candidates and potential candidates for governor with Dita Bhargava, a Democrat from Greenwich. Bhargava has never held elected office before, […]

Reason #825 to own a Buick Roadmaster

By Dennis House on 10/18/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

  Our vintage Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon hit the big 6-0 over the weekend: passing the 60,000 mile mark on the odometer.   That averages to just under 3,000 miles a year on […]

Who Will be the Next Connecticut Governor?

By Dennis House on 10/11/2017 • ( 4 Comments )

Election day 2018 is a little more than a year away, and no fewer than a dozen people are out there raising money for a possible run in the quest to succeed […]

“If Foley-Boughton had won in 2010…”

By Dennis House on 10/06/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

The 2018 election is just over a year away so this Sunday on Face the State we take a look at the race for governor. We are joined by Republican Mark Boughton, […]

A Woody Wagon Returns, Sort of

By Dennis House on 09/28/2017 • ( 3 Comments )

Faux wood paneled station wagons haven’t been manufactured since the 1990s, but one is back, on prime time television. The new CBS comedy “Young Sheldon” prominently features a 1980s Mercury Colony Park. […]

1957 on Display

By Dennis House on 09/25/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

As part of WFSB’s 60th anniversary celebration, we invited owners of some fantastic 1957 cars to a client party at the Connecticut Science Center. 1957 was the year tail fins on cars […]

Summer 2017

By Dennis House on 09/22/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Summer ’17 is in the books!  Here’s a peek at what the House family did during my favorite season.

The First Big News Story I Ever Delivered

By Dennis House on 09/04/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

I really mean “delivered,” as in to a doorstep. It was August 9, 1974 and I was an elementary school paper boy in Norwood, Massachusetts. My brother Chris and I had a…

1936: Hartford Swamped by Floods

By Dennis House on 08/29/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

As we watch the heartbreaking images of the devastation in Houston, it’s hard not to try to imagine what Texans are going through. Back in 1936, Hartford was swamped with historic floods […]

Murphy Sits Down at WFSB After 105 Mile Walk

By Dennis House on 08/27/2017 • ( 2 Comments )

  Senator Chris Murphy’s feet are healing after a 105 mile walk across Connecticut, and this week walked into the Face the State studio to talk about his journey, his state, his […]

Preppy Wheels

By Dennis House on 08/18/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Lisa Birnbach would be proud. The author of the 1980s best seller “the Preppy Handbook,” would no doubt smile if she spotted what I saw the past couple of days. There was […]

The Day the King Died

By Dennis House on 08/15/2017 • ( 1 Comment )

Forty years ago today I was a junior high school student enjoying the final weeks of the summer of ’77.  I was playing golf at the Lost Brook Golf Course in Norwood,…

Wet Paint 2017

By Dennis House on 08/12/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

We had a great time at a fun House family summer tradition where your artwork can end up in a museum, and you can walk away with a cool  masterpiece  to hang […]

DeLauro: “I’ll Never Retire

By Dennis House on 08/11/2017 • ( 4 Comments )

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) is the dean of the Connecticut congressional delegation and shows no signs of slowing down.   The New Haven Democrat is out with a book “The Least Among […]

Roadmaster Twinning

By Dennis House on 08/08/2017 • ( 1 Comment )

 It’s not every day you a spot an exact duplicate of your car, especially when it’s 21 years old, but that’s what I saw in a parking lot in Middletown, Rhode Island. […]

A New Era at UConn, Take 2

By Dennis House on 08/06/2017 • ( Leave a comment )

UConn, especially athletics, is a huge economic engine in our state, and is a big part of the state budget.  This morning  on Face the State at 11 on WFSB, we are […]

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