by | Feb 21, 2025 11:25 am | Comments (0)
Some of the iconic New Haven products (above) Steve Thomas (below, at WNHH FM) sends out.
Steve Thomas noticed New Haven ex-pats hankering online for some Elm City pie and cannoli — and willing to pay to have someone ship it to them.
Continue reading ‘He's Shipping New Haven's Delicacies Nationwide’
by | Feb 18, 2025 4:05 pm | Comments (3)
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Fatima Rojas, Yenimar Cortes, Ambar Santiago-Rojas, and Jacqueline Gonzalez at WNHH FM.
Don’t freak out. Do pull out the red card.
Continue reading ‘New ICE Age Response Team: Prepare, Don't Panic’
by | Feb 17, 2025 1:58 pm | Comments (0)
Moore performing at WNHH FM.
Fresh off an NYC premiere, Johnathan Moore picked up his bow, turned on his BOSS RC-600 Loop station, and transformed into a one-man orchestra.
by | Feb 11, 2025 9:45 am | Comments (2)
Author Josaphat: The Panther story needed a novelist's eye.
Kingdom of No Tomorrow
By Fabienne Josaphat
Algonquin Books/Hatchette
Nettie Boileau had choices to make.
Should she sign up with the revolution taking shape in Oakland, the way her father fought back against Papa Doc in Haiti? Or should she pursue her dreams of becoming a doctor?
Which lover should she make a life with? Clia, who brought her into the Black Panther Party? Or Melvin, the magnetic rising party leader?
by | Feb 6, 2025 4:41 pm | Comments (18)
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AG Tong: "We need big-brain constitutional knife fighters."
Connecticut’s “people’s lawyer” is putting out a call for reinforcements.
by | Feb 5, 2025 11:50 am | Comments (6)
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy joins protesters outside the USAID office blasting Elon Musk's and DOGE's efforts to decimate the agency.
If President Donald Trump follows through on promised tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China, the average American household will lose $1,250 a year in disposable income.
Continue reading ‘Think Tanker: Fed Budgetquake Will Hit Everywhere’
by | Feb 3, 2025 1:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Rapini (at center above): Phone theifs don't have your face.
Trick question: What’s your password again? For each of your 4,256 apps?
Continue reading ‘NeVER mINd All ThOsE nuMB3rs# & letTers & AMPERSANDs’
by | Jan 31, 2025 10:05 am | Comments (0)
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Joshua Roman performs in the WNHH FM studio.
Cindy told a story about having life as you know it taken from you, about wrestling with how to adjust to a new life, then accepting and moving on.
The story had no words.
by | Jan 29, 2025 9:05 am | Comments (14)
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Former U.S. translator Serweri at WNHH: Brother's family stranded.
They risked their lives to help the U.S. They followed all the rules to win permission to come to the U.S. to escape death threats. They had their airplane tickets ready. Mohammad Daad Serweri was ready to welcome them to New Haven and help them start new lives.
Then the Trump administration slammed shut the door. What happens next to the Afghan families — and to the U.S.‘s ability to convince people in other countries to risk their lives to help us in the future — is suddenly in question.
Continue reading ‘Door Slammed On 20 Afghans Headed For New Haven’
by | Jan 24, 2025 3:05 pm | Comments (0)
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Focus trio's Mathew Munzner and Israel Corona-Galan (above) and Brendan Castro (below) crammed into the WNHH FM studio.
Fourteen years after Israel Corona-Galan started building guitars, he’s building original floral-themed tunes for his jazz trio.
by | Jan 17, 2025 9:15 am | Comments (3)
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Alston at WNHH FM: Texting, praying.
John Alston Jr. had no time for the “blame game” over how Los Angeles’ wildfires have devastated America’s second-largest city.
by | Jan 16, 2025 4:38 pm | Comments (0)
For a few weeks, New Haveners will be able to go downtown and travel to New York City’s 1927 San Juan Hill, where a pair of star-crossed lovers suffer the consequences of heightened tensions between Black Americans and Caribbean immigrants.
by | Jan 15, 2025 10:30 am | Comments (5)
Affinity's Rino Ferrarese at WNHH FM; some of his company's strains (top).
Rino Ferrarese noticed that the people who help him grow cannabis to sell in Connecticut end up buying their own stash elsewhere.
Therein lies a challenge for Connecticut’s fledgling industry.
Continue reading ‘2 Years In, Canna-preneur Battles Bummers’
by | Jan 10, 2025 9:39 am | Comments (6)
The Swamp isn't Twitter: Budget-watcher Prisinzano (at right) to Musk (left).
“DOGE” may be able to cut thousands of jobs. It will find fat to trim.
It won’t end up eliminating federal government departments or axing trillions of dollars in spending. Not even close.
So predicts a budget-watcher who’s monitoring the incoming Trump Administration’s effort to take a blowtorch to the “Deep State.”
by | Jan 8, 2025 2:00 pm | Comments (3)
Paul: Return to sender.
Jason Paul wants to lead the Democratic Party back to winning elections — in part by leaving people’s phones alone.
by | Jan 2, 2025 5:02 pm | Comments (14)
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Board of Alders President Walker-Myers at WNHH: "I don't instill fear. I instill hope."
Don’t panic. Let’s see what happens and what doesn’t happen. Then we’ll make sound decisions the way we always do.
Tyisha Walker-Myers offered that strategy as she and New Haven walk into what may prove a stormy 2025.
Emphasis on “may.”
by | Dec 24, 2024 1:14 pm | Comments (0)
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Yale students protest on the Green on Oct. 28 against COMPASS, the non-police crisis outreach team that helps people on the street find homes and life-saving care. The city formed COMPASS in the wake of police-accountability protests seeking non-punitive ways to help people in crisis.
Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past year.
1. Where did the city clear homeless encampments this year? (Choose all that apply.)
A. New Haven Green
B. The woods off I‑91 Exit 6
C. Ella Grasso Boulevard
D. Edgewood Park
E. Rosette Street
F. Outside Union Station
G. Below the Lamberton Street Bridge
by | Dec 20, 2024 9:43 am | Comments (1)
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Nu Haven Kapelye's David Chevan, Will Bartlett, Dana Astmann perform at WNHH FM.
December holiday music was in free swing — in Yiddish.
by | Dec 18, 2024 3:03 pm | Comments (30)
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Time for state to step in for tenants: State Reps.-Elect Laurie Sweet and Steve Winter at WNHH FM.
Laurie Sweet is headed back to the state Capitol to push a tenants’ rights bill — this time to help pass the law rather than push someone else to.
by | Dec 6, 2024 11:24 am | Comments (0)
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Diane X Brown and Chris "Big Dog" Davis.
Chris “Big Dog” Davis is returning to Dixwell’s Stetson Branch Library to bring a rainbow of holiday-season hope — with the help of a Hollywood Walk of Fame singer and actress.
Continue reading ‘Melba Moore Joins "Big Dog" Xmas At Stetson’
by | Dec 5, 2024 12:02 pm | Comments (13)
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Be prepared, not scared: Damjan Denoble at WNHH FM.
New Haven immigration attorney Damjan Denoble is preparing for Trump II Administration sweeps — by ramping down his immigration practice.
What a difference from his experience during Trump I.
by | Nov 26, 2024 3:37 pm | Comments (12)
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Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto at the announcement of $25 million in "Move New Haven" Biden Bucks.
Connecticut’s transportation chief is stepping on the gas — to get public-transit paperwork in to Washington before a new presidential administration takes over.
by | Nov 20, 2024 1:55 pm | Comments (5)
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Chief Jacobson at WNHH FM: "I think we're having an upward swing."
Karl Jacobson is cheering, not ruing, the latest police recruitment and retention numbers.
That could mean more cops on the streets in New Haven doing more work with the community.
Continue reading ‘Policing "Pendulum Swing" Buoys The Chief’
by | Nov 15, 2024 10:00 am | Comments (18)
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Cabrera and Winfield at WNHH: Where would it end?
Gary Winfield and Jorge Cabrera are determined not to blink.
Continue reading ‘Winfield & Cabrera: Don’t Bend To Trump Blackmail’
by | Nov 14, 2024 10:34 am | Comments (5)
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Bill Dixon at WNHH FM (above); Rally the Raven, with tail intact (below).
Bill Dixon has one regret: What happened to Rally the Raven’s tail.