Eye On Do-Over Election
by | Sep 16, 2019 12:56 pm | Comments (0)
At least one New Havener has her eye on another election Tuesday — this one not in New Haven, but in her native land of Israel.
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Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Aug 22, 2019 8:39 pm | Comments (0)
Hope Found Amid Fear At Hiroshima Commemoration
by | Aug 6, 2019 2:36 pm | Comments (17)
As bells tolled from churches around the Green, Al Marder bowed his head in memory of the those killed in the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
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Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Jun 27, 2019 6:03 pm | Comments (0)
Foreign Correspondent Taps “Crazy Vibe”
by | Apr 5, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (2)
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Tzipi Shmilovitz at WNHH FM.
Tzipi Shmilovitz noticed something about how people in the U.S. think about the war their government has waged for decades: They don’t.
Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Mar 29, 2019 7:36 am | Comments (0)
Year Of The Pig Roars In On Whitney
by | Feb 16, 2019 8:15 pm | Comments (1)
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Lions, dragons, and luck danced down Whitney Avenue Saturday.
This Time, Pro-Maduro Protesters Rally At City Hall
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:50 am | Comments (27)
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Two weeks after protesters declared outside City Hall that Juan Guaidó is the president of Venezuela, other local activists rallied at City Hall to declare him a puppet of U.S. imperialism.
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“Mi Presidente Es Guaidó!”
by | Feb 3, 2019 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
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Hours after hundreds of thousands of protestors took to the streets of Venezuela, 30 protesters gathered in front of New Haven City Hall’s Amistad Memorial in New Haven to take up their chant: “¿Quiénes somos? Venezuela! ¿Qué queremos? Libertad!”
Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Jan 24, 2019 5:51 pm | Comments (0)
“Today, We Have A New President”
by | Jan 23, 2019 11:21 pm | Comments (4)
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One of the many Venezuelan flags on display outside City Hall on Wednesday.
Venezuelan transplants rally outside City Hall in support of their new president.
With tri-colored flags clutched in their fists and emblazoned on their hats, dozens of Venezuelan émigrés rallied downtown in support of their native country’s new self-declared president.
The Caravan, Up Close
by | Nov 19, 2018 1:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Migrants and refugrees at the Mixhuca Stadium in Mexico City.
Mexico City—Three young people. Teenagers. Sitting on the stairs of a stadium, chatting. They could be teenagers chilling on the steps of the New Haven Public Library. Instead, they are young people at the Mixhuca Stadium in Mexico City, traveling on the caravan headed north.
“Ataturk Corner” Will Not Be
by | Aug 7, 2018 1:11 pm | Comments (2)
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Feray Gokcek with statue of his hero, Ataturk.
Alders decided not to dip their toes into one well of international controversy on Monday night when they formally turned down a bid to rename a Middletown Avenue streetcorner after modern Turkey’s founding president.
Mural Unites Israeli, Palestinian Teens
by | Jul 11, 2018 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Roommates Eliran Ben Yair and Abdullah Salha stroked a cerulean sea across a 48-foot canvas sprawled on the New Haven Green Tuesday afternoon.
The boys didn’t sleep very well the night they met. By the time they were painting together, they’d become friends.
That was the point, of the mural project and the summer program they enrolled in.
Storm Victims Urged To Document Damage
by | Jun 11, 2018 4:14 pm | Comments (1)
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Blumenthal at Monday’s press conference.
Help is on the way. But it may take a while.
China Trip Taps Transit, R&D Prospects
by | Apr 16, 2018 4:42 pm | Comments (15)
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Harp at one pitch session.
The owners of two Chinese agricultural-products companes plan to visit New Haven this summer, the first potential fruits of a trip local officials took last week.
Twenty-two New Haveners made the trip to China in a delegation led by Mayor Toni Harp.
Chris Murphy: Illegal Air Strikes Won’t Work
by | Apr 16, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (8)
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Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy came out this past weekend against the Trump administration’s bombing in Syria, on both legal and strategic crowds. Here’s how he laid out his case in an email to supporters:
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Female Leaders Meet
by | Apr 13, 2018 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
Yale-China Association, which is part of the official New Haven delegation visiting China to cement a new sister-city relationship with Changsha and try to attract new investment in New Haven, sent the following photos and write-ups from the trip.
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Mayor Toni Harp, the first woman mayor of New Haven, was welcomed to Hong Kong today by Ms. Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong S.A.R. Also in the meeting were (left to right) Marc Camille, president of Albertus Magnus College, David Youtz, president of Yale-China Association, Althea Norcott, representing New-Haven Sister Cities, and Andrew Wolf, New Haven director of arts, tourism and culture.
From The Forbidden City ...
by | Apr 11, 2018 2:37 pm | Comments (1)
Yale-China Association, which is part of the official New Haven delegation visiting China to cement a new sister-city relationship with Changsha and try to attract new investment in New Haven, sent the following photos and write-ups from the trip.
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The New Haven delegation visited Yali Middle School where they had a rich exchange of ideas and information on Changsha and New Haven. In the photo, Andy Wolf, Director of Arts, Culture, and Tourism for the City of New Haven, is talking with Yali Middle School students about the vibrant cultural, arts, and culinary culture in New Haven.
Fundraiser Will Challenge “Ovarian Lottery”
by | Apr 2, 2018 12:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Clinic construction.stage.
From groundbreaking to the laying of its foundation, to seeing cinderblock walls rise to support a pitched frame and the steel roof that would cover it, Westville and some New Haven supporters have cheered every stage of construction of a new health clinic located more than 5,000 miles away — one which they helped make happen.
Now there’s more work to do.
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Harp To Pitch Businesses On China Trip
by | Mar 19, 2018 7:53 am | Comments (12)
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Agent Wolf completing the first leg of his mission with Changsha Municipal Deputy Secretary Tu Wenqing during a 2016 visit.
New Haven is on the hunt for new employers — in China.
Reinaldo’s Corner
by | Mar 9, 2018 8:52 am | Comments (0)
Two Teachers Face History —& The Grief After Violence
by | Jan 4, 2018 4:20 pm | Comments (5)
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Fussiner.
Two men, Tommy and Petesy, stand on a stage. They’re side by side, but an ocean apart. Tommy’s a boxer in New Haven who’s taken a couple punches. Petesy is a tall man whose life in Belfast, Northern Ireland has made him smaller. They’re cousins who grew up seeing each other now and again. But they’re writing each other now because they’ve both lost a son to violence, and neither of them knows exactly how to go on.
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Pols Seize On Loosening Gun Lobby Grip
by and | Oct 6, 2017 3:19 pm | Comments (9)
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Lawmakers sign a banner for the victims of a mass shooting.
New Haven’s Congressional delegation joined more than 100 anti-gun violence advocates on the steps of the New Haven Police Department Friday morning to call on federal lawmakers to support what they say are common-sense gun policy reforms, including a ban on bump stock devices and expanded background check rules.
Just before that event, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy visited the WNHH studio to talk about gun control, Iran and North Korea, and the response to Hurricane Maria’s devastation of Puerto Rico to create a picture of the ways in which the current administration is “truly and frighteningly groundbreaking” in its handling of challenges and crises.
Sister Cities, UNH Join Forces
by | Sep 18, 2017 4:11 pm | Comments (1)
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President Kaplan signs the MOU Monday.
New Haven Sister Cities just got a whole school full of new ambassadors for the cause of peace thanks to a newly minted partnership with the University of New Haven.