by | Nov 8, 2024 10:01 am | Comments (13)
What the heck just happened?
How did Donald Trump manage to convince more Americans from all walks of life, including Black and Latino voters, to cast ballots for his 2024 presidential election than he or other Republicans had for a generation?
Continue reading ‘Whisperers Explain Black/Latino Trump Vote To White Guy’
by | Nov 1, 2024 1:19 pm | Comments (15)
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Ganong: Vote for what you believe, without wasting your vote.
Sarah Ganong wants voters to pick a Democrat without voting “Democrat” in some races this election.
Continue reading ‘3rd Party Offers Alternative Line For Electing Progressive Dems’
by | Nov 1, 2024 11:35 am | Comments (0)
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Singer-songwriter Frank Critelli at WNHH FM.
Frank Critelli was looking for lemons and toilet paper at Stop & Shop. He wasn’t looking to steal anything. Honest.
by | Oct 31, 2024 10:13 am | Comments (1)
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In progress at ClimateHaven: Tools used to extract "valuable materials" from lithium-ion batteries.
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Justine Lee at WNHH FM: From Citibike to VC to green-tech incubator.
Justine Lee has returned to New Haven to turn climate hope into reality.
by | Oct 29, 2024 5:11 pm | Comments (8)
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Acri at WNHH FM: Voters deserve "a choice."
Anthony Acri knows what it’s like to rebuild a life after a setback. He wants voters to send him to Hartford to put that experience to work for other people seeking to rebuild theirs.
by | Oct 23, 2024 11:28 am | Comments (2)
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Will Ginsberg at WNHH FM: It didn't all turn out the way we planned.
Will Ginsberg is leaving behind important unfinished business for his successor as he completes a 24-year run as CEO of New Haven’s leading philanthropic foundation.
Continue reading ‘Ginsberg Hands Off The Inclusion Challenge’
by | Oct 18, 2024 1:26 pm | Comments (21)
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State Rep. Pat Dillon at WNHH FM: "It's great if you bought DoorDash stock five years ago, not if you had maybe 10 people on your staff, serving people, and now you're down to two."
Pat Dillon started visiting voters on her 22nd round of seeking election to a state legislative seat when she learned something new: the Amity Walgreens is closing.
The voters who broke the news considered it a big deal. Dillon said she does, too, and intends to incorporate it into her work if elected on Nov. 5 to represent New Haven’s west-side 92nd General Assembly District for a 21st two-year term.
by | Oct 14, 2024 12:05 pm | Comments (18)
State Rep. Elliott: Tax burden is backwards.
Josh Elliott is ready to run for governor to challenge the current governor’s take on taxing the rich — but only if the current governor isn’t on the ballot.
Continue reading ‘Elliott Eyes "Equitable Taxation" Guv Run’
by | Oct 11, 2024 9:23 am | Comments (23)
Help more people vote: Joshua Elliott and Karimah Mickens at WNHH FM.
If you no longer have to lie about needing to vote absentee — would that cut down on fraud?
by | Oct 9, 2024 10:04 am | Comments (7)
Orosco4Senate Insta reels.
Steve Orosco is as likely to knock on your iPhone as to knock on your door this campaign season.
by | Oct 8, 2024 3:55 pm | Comments (27)
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Rosa the Rizzler: DeLauro at WNHH FM.
Inflation keeps dropping. Unemployment is near historic lows. Jobs keep growing.
Rosa DeLauro didn’t talk about any of that. Even though she and her party could crow about those trends in a typical election year.
But this isn’t a typical election year.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro Sees 18th Term Window Of Opportunity’
by | Oct 2, 2024 10:57 am | Comments (10)
Showing up: Street medicine outreachers Phil Costello, Emma Lo, Claudette Kidd at WNHH FM.
Teens have started jumping out of cars and attacking homeless people sleeping on the street in Fair Haven, according to a veteran street outreach worker.
Continue reading ‘Street Attacks On Homeless Reported On Rise’
by | Sep 30, 2024 9:45 am | Comments (28)
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Tabitha Sookdeo at WNHH FM: "It's all connected."
Tabitha Sookdeo has a new job helping undocumented young people stay settled here — and addressing the conditions that lead some others to come here.
To her, the two issues, immigration reform and climate change, are related.
by | Sep 25, 2024 9:32 am | Comments (1)
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Frankie Roman, Casey Gargano, and Patricia Melton at New Haven Promise.
Like the young people it helps develop into successful college students and adults, New Haven Promise has entered its teens full of growth of possibility.
by | Sep 23, 2024 9:20 am | Comments (0)
Reach out and touch (screen) someone?: Erik Campano at WNHH FM.
Erik Campano has been camping out in person in the hospital ICU watching people watch each other die — on screens.
In the process, he’s working at the forefront of an emerging field that is touching all of our lives, not to mention our post-lives.
by | Sep 20, 2024 9:42 am | Comments (0)
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Austin Scelzo and fiddle at WNHH FM.
Austin Scelzo hit the two bottom strings of his violin, struck a couple higher notes, launched a high-lonesome lament that seemed to stretch back eight decades to rural Appalachia.
Trouble in my soul
I know it’s wrong
But it’s feeling so good …
Did Bill Monroe originally sing this? Was it a gospel number repurposed for bluegrass barn dances? It sounded as though it leaped from an old vinyl 78, minus the scratches.
by | Sep 18, 2024 9:42 am | Comments (10)
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DeLauro (left) at CitySeed; Massey at WNHH FM.
On issues ranging from the federal Department of Education’s existence to companies’ use of algorithm-based “targeted pricing,” New Haven voters have heard a clear choice this week from candidates for Congress.
by | Sep 13, 2024 9:35 am | Comments (0)
Steve Mednick performing Thursday in the WNHH FM studio.
Steve Mednick played a song from a new album as well as from his next album — while waiting to see how both the track, and country’s political future, play out.
by | Sep 11, 2024 12:31 pm | Comments (0)
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Brandt Taylor and Chris DePino in the WNHH FM studio.
A subdued Mystery Train took off Tuesday from WNHH FM’s studio.
by | Sep 6, 2024 9:37 am | Comments (3)
State Rep. Lemar at WNHH FM.
Roland Lemar has advice for Kamala Harris for her big presidential campaign debate next week: Stay the course.
Let the “ho” digs and name-calling and other insults slide by. Keep smiling. Stand above it. Let her opponent, Donald Trump, look small.
by | Aug 28, 2024 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
The History of Sound: Stories
By Ben Shattuck
Viking
July 9, 2024
306 pages
It’s a long story. And 12 short stories.
Ben Shattuck tells those dozen stories in his new collection called The History of Sound. The stories span three centuries. They interconnect in pairs — sometimes in passing, through an old painting or field recording buried under floor boards, sometimes more directly in traveling back in time to reveal the full story of a mystery that has been reinterpreted and rewritten by later generations.
In the process, Shattuck is telling us one story, about our legend-laden region of New England. And about telling stories, period.
by | Aug 27, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Bartlett-Josie on the floor of the Chicago United Center at last week's Democratic National Convention.
Christine Bartlett-Josie’s phone is ringing again. Just as in 2008.
Continue reading ‘Bartlett-Josie Sees Kamala-mentum Continuing After Convention’
by | Aug 15, 2024 1:43 pm | Comments (0)
For the first time, WNHH’s Tuesdays @ the Mediterranea Cafe concert series featured a saxophone, a harmonica, and a golden trumpet — though the last wasn’t making any sound.
That didn’t keep Snake Hill Blues lead singer Vaughn Collins from taking the miniature instrument from around his neck, pressing his fingers to the keys, and letting the imaginary horn blare among the real, rightly-sized instruments surrounding him.
by | Aug 14, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (45)
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Looney at WNHH: Bradley has lots of room.
Commercial air service at Tweed-New Haven Airport is growing nearly as fast as an SST — too fast, in the opinion of one influential neighbor.
by | Aug 2, 2024 8:44 am | Comments (0)
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Dean Falcone and Shellye Valauskas at WNHH FM.
The background singers were back in Memphis. So were the bass and drums.
Shellye Valauskas and Dean Falcone brought just their acoustic guitars to the WNHH FM studio, and poured unplugged energy into a preview of what’s coming.