Oy! Bring On The Holiday Tunes
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.
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Rookie Reps Target Evictions
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.
Melba Moore Joins "Big Dog" Xmas At Stetson
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.
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No Resistance Rerun For This Attorney
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.
DOT Chief Races To Meet Fed $ Deadlines
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.
Policing "Pendulum Swing" Buoys The Chief
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.
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Winfield & Cabrera: Don’t Bend To Trump Blackmail
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.
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Youth Rec Hero Rallies For Retirement
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.
Whisperers Explain Black/Latino Trump Vote To White Guy
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?
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3rd Party Offers Alternative Line For Electing Progressive Dems
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.
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Stop! ... Thief?
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.
New CEO Revs Up Green Tech Hub
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.
State Rep Hopeful Focuses On 2nd Chances
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.
Ginsberg Hands Off The Inclusion Challenge
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.
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Dillon Focuses Campaign On Retail Jobs
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.
Elliott Eyes "Equitable Taxation" Guv Run
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.
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Ballot Q: "No Excuses" = More Democracy?
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?
Orosco Reels In Votes
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.
DeLauro Sees 18th Term Window Of Opportunity
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.
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Street Attacks On Homeless Reported On Rise
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.
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Dreamer Organizer Ties In Climate
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.
A Promise Kept, & Expanded
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.
Death Be Not Digitized
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.
The Fiddler Was Playing -- & Praying
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.
Massey, DeLauro Split on SNAP, Schools
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.