Quick Conversations Archive
Quick Conversations with Legislative Leaders & CRN’s Tim Phelan
A Look Back at Key Insights for Connecticut Retailers
Each year, in the lead-up to Connecticut’s legislative session, CRN President Tim Phelan sits down with key leaders from the General Assembly for a series of short, insightful video interviews. These “Quick Conversations” offer a direct line to the priorities, expectations, and policy discussions that matter most to the state’s retail community.
This archive offers a valuable opportunity to revisit the issues that were on the table, track how they evolved, and hear directly from the legislators who helped shape them. From economic development and tax policy to workforce and regulatory concerns, these candid conversations provide an essential record of how retail-related legislation has developed over time. Browse below to explore several years of interviews.
2026 CT Legislative Preview
The Connecticut Retail Network thanks Connecticut’s Health Care Future for supporting the leadership interview series.
2025 CT Legislative Preview
Heading into the 2025 session of the state legislature, CRN President Tim Phelan conducted a series of direct conversations with legislative leaders – brief video discussions previewing issues of particular interest to CT’s retail businesses during the 2025 session.
Key legislators leading their respective caucuses provided a look ahead in exclusive interviews.
- House Republican Leader Vin Candelora
- House Speaker Matt Ritter
- Senate President Martin Looney
- Senate Republican Leader Stephen Harding
- CBIA Vice President for Public Policy Chris Davis
The Connecticut Retail Network thanks EarnIn, a financial technology company, for supporting the leadership interview series.
2022 CT Legislative Preview
Heading into the 2022 session of the state legislature, CRN President Tim Phelan is having a series of direct conversations with legislative leaders – brief video discussions previewing issues of particular interest to retail businesses during this year’s legislative session, which begins February 9 and adjourns May 4.
You can watch the Quick Conversions here. You’ll hear directly from key legislators leading their respective caucuses in these exclusive one-to-one conversations.
