by | Nov 9, 2016 12:13 am | Comments (2)
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DeLauro: A chance to turn the page?
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro of New Haven is on her way back to Congress for a 14th term.
Continue reading ‘As The World Outside Suddenly Changed, DeLauro Crowd Partied’
by | Nov 7, 2016 3:15 pm | Comments (0)
TMonday’s programs on WNHH radio probe the connection between folk music and the prison industrial complex, address Election Day concerns, contest a political decision in Derby, and celebrate the Ansonia Chargers.
by | Nov 4, 2016 8:16 am | Comments (0)
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Rawls-Ivy and Bartlett-Josie.
Did you know that there’s an election coming up on Nov. 8? Friday’s programs on WNHH radio make sure listeners do, calling Hillary Clinton’s trustworthiness into question, examining how campaigns are set up to run locally and nationally, looking at the politics of food insecurity, and relating this week’s local news to possible sea changes on the political horizon.
by | Nov 3, 2016 1:08 pm | Comments (0)
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Does Hillary have what it takes to pull off the election, or will Donald Trump take it? The most recent programs on WNHH ask that question of both Clinton and Trump supporters, provide some welcome distraction with experimental animated films, and look at changes in home health care and in New Haven’s soon-to-be newest sister city.
by | Oct 21, 2016 2:31 pm | Comments (11)
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Secretary of the State Denise Merrill reminds people that they can register to vote from their phone.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wasn’t at City Hall Friday, but the ghost of his words — about rigged elections and possibly refusing to accept the results if he doesn’t win the “rigged” Nov. 8 election — haunted the place.
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by | Oct 10, 2016 12:10 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven’s Oliphant and Colter at Dresher Clinton HQ.
Willow Grove, Penn. — Standing outside of an ACME supermarket on a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Carter Colter asked a question that he had been repeating to incoming and outgoing shoppers for the past three hours.
“Excuse me, are you registered to vote?”
by | Sep 27, 2016 2:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Clinton supporters watching debate at Cask Republic.
“Shut up,” someone at the front of the room shouted with exasperation as Donald Trump defended his self-proclaimed (and thoroughly fictional) early opposition to the Iraq War.
“No, keep talking,” the person sitting next to him responded with a smile. “This is good for us to hear!”
by | Sep 13, 2016 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
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Morales.
• Janitors Against Trump.
• Child Trauma & Schools.
• Branford’s John DeCarlo.
• This Day in 9/11 Remembrance.
by | Aug 23, 2016 2:12 pm | Comments (19)
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Curran: 750 bucks to “Trump Make America Great Again.”
It can be lonely being a Donald Trump supporter in blue New Haven. Just ask Erin Reilly.
by | Aug 19, 2016 12:16 pm | Comments (8)
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Marx, second from left, at opening night.
Ten volunteers came to Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery Thursday night not to look at art, but to practice the art of persuasion on behalf of Democrat Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Tonight, there was plenty of art to see and lots of enthusiasm among the ten volunteers that showed up at the gallery for what New Haven ward alder (26) Darryl Brackeen Jr. described as a “virtual phone bank.”
by | Jul 29, 2016 8:09 am | Comments (17)
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New Haven’s Porter, a Berner ready to roll for Clinton.
Philadelphia — Here in the Wells Fargo Center, black women received a message this week: The Democratic Party will be looking to them to play a major role in trying to elect Hillary Clinton the next president.
Continue reading ‘Clinton’s Secret Weapon: Black Girl Magic’
by and | Jul 29, 2016 7:44 am | Comments (1)
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Clinton.
Philadelphia—Hours before Hillary Rodham Clinton took the stage to accept the Democratic nomination at the city’s Wells Fargo Arena Thursday night, delegates, members of the media, and credentialed fans were lining up and streaming in for the big moment, which ended in a shower of red, white and blue balloons and a declaration that America’s citizens “begin a new chapter tonight.”
by | Jul 28, 2016 2:52 pm | Comments (3)
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Abdussabur calls for national strategy at DNC Thursday.
Philadelphia — If a New Haven cop, a Connecticut governor, and like-minded Democrats gathered here Thursday have their way, it will no longer be so easy for practically anyone to get a gun in America.
Continue reading ‘Abdussabur, Malloy Rally Gun Control Troops’
by | Jul 27, 2016 11:03 pm | Comments (9)
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Stein at Wednesday’s rally.
Philadelphia — A day after Bernie Sanders announced that he was “proud to stand with” former presidential campaign rival Hillary Clinton, some of his supporters joined thousands of people cheering on a new candidate of choice, the Green Party’s Jill Stein.
by and | Jul 27, 2016 8:37 am | Comments (0)
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Bruce Carter at Tuesday’s rally.
Philadelphia — As Democrats from around the country nominated Hillary for Clinton for president with the help of former rival Bernie Sanders, Bruce Carter was out in the street declaring, “Bernie or BUST!”
by | Jul 26, 2016 4:28 pm | Comments (1)
Philadelphia — The morning after U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren urged a cheering crowd at the Democratic National Convention to get money out of politics, money was talking.
by | Jul 26, 2016 7:32 am | Comments (1)
Porter and Winfield Monday.
Philadelphia—Standing to the side in a long hallway at the Philadelphia Convention Center early Monday afternoon, New Haven State Rep. Robyn Porter and State Sen. Gary Winfield said they had a message for the thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters who had descended on Philadelphia to protest the Democratic National Convention and Hillary Clinton’s presidential nomination: Stop Berning or Busting. Stop Hill no-ing. Bernie Sanders’ message, still potent, may live on, but it is time (and perhaps, well past time) to get on the Hillary train.
by | Jul 25, 2016 8:11 pm | Comments (3)
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Malloy addresses the crowd.
Philadelphia—New Haven’s embrace of refugees provided a case point for Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy when he got his moment in the spotlight at the Democratic National Convention Monday night. While addressing Democrats gathered for their presidential nominating convention at the city’s Wells Fargo Center, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy invoked Connecticut — and then New Haven specifically — while making a pitch to delegates on both sides of the democratic aisle: It was necessary to vote for Hillary Clinton and present a unified front because Mike Pence, governor of Indiana and Donald Trump’s vice presidential hopeful, would be scarier in the White House than Donald Trump himself.
by | Jul 25, 2016 4:20 pm | Comments (1)
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Malloy at WashPo convention parley.
Philadelphia— A week after Republicans nominated a presidential candidate vowing to take a tough stand against criminals, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said that his fellow Democrats need to embrace strategies that reduce prison populations and risk being labeled “weak on crime.”
by | Jul 20, 2016 7:17 am | Comments (1)
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The Clintons and Gores on Nov. 4, 1992, celebrating their victory in Little Rock, Arkansas — 16 years to the day before the Obamas celebrated in Chicago’s Grant Park
The national political conventions this month, including the July 25 – 28 Democratic Convention in Philadelphia where Hillary Rodham Clinton will be nominated, evoke the 1992 convention at which Bill Clinton became the Democratic nominee. That year, I was on the convention floor — at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in New York — as a volunteer staffer with the “broadcast liaison group.”
Continue reading ‘Convention Memories: Another Clinton, Another Age’
by | Jun 24, 2016 7:22 am | Comments (1)
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Bunting.
Hypothesis: New Haven teens aren’t too enthused about Republican candidate Donald Trump.
Methodology: Send a young reporter downtown to talk to some of them.
Conclusion: Elm City teens are, as predicted, not big fans of The Donald. But that doesn’t translate directly to good news for presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton either. Many of them said in interviews downtown this week that they’re not ready to cozy up to her quite yet.
Continue reading ‘Urban Teens Trash Trump —But Don’t Feel The Hil’
by | Jun 9, 2016 12:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Stone.
Today’s programs on WNHH radio probe the U.S. primary and voting systems, celebrate National Sex Day, and fall down the wonky and fascinating rabbit hole of international piracy.
by | May 6, 2016 7:05 am | Comments (0)
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Morrison.
Today’s programs on WNHH discuss and debate the viral photo of Donald Trump that was posted to the internet on May 5, pundit-ize on the news, and visit with a hometown woman made good.
by | Apr 28, 2016 1:15 pm | Comments (5)
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Wharton at WNHH.
The day after Donald Trump swept Connecticut’s Republican presidential primary, New Haven’s new GOP chief vowed not to vote for him in November if he emerges, as now seems increasingly likely, as the party’s candidate.
by | Apr 28, 2016 1:14 pm | Comments (8)
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Meyersons canvass for Sanders in the Annex on primary day.
Bill and Cathy Meyerson have worked for so many underdog political campaigns that they can’t begin to remember just how many. On Tuesday they were focused on on their latest quest: to help a democratic socialist from Vermont win Connecticut’s presidential primary.
Continue reading ‘Power(-Fighting) Couple Hits Streets Again’