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.
by | Jul 30, 2024 4:11 pm | Comments (20)
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Andrea DiLieto Zola at WNHH FM.
Andrea DiLieto Zola is knocking on Wooster Square doors asking voters to do something new this November — elect a New Haven Republican to the state legislature.
by | Jul 25, 2024 9:02 am | Comments (1)
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Author Joshua Perry at WNHH FM: Truth found in fiction.
Seraphim
By Joshua Perry
Melville House Publishing
262 pages
Ben is not Joshua.
by | Jul 23, 2024 5:00 pm | Comments (24)
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DTC Chair Vincent Mauro Jr. at WNHH FM.
Vincent Mauro Jr. is all in with his party’s new plan to elect Kamala Harris the next president of the United States.
He’s not down with how it all came about. In fact he has a gripe with his party.
Continue reading ‘Mauro Blasts National Party For Keeping Locals In Dark About Biden’
by | Jul 12, 2024 1:16 pm | Comments (0)
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Brian Ember in the WNHH FM studio.
Brian Ember started singing a verse he wrote 22 years ago, to a song he’s just now figuring out how to complete.
Continue reading ‘Decades Later, Brian Ember Finishes The Song’
by | Jul 11, 2024 12:39 pm | Comments (13)
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Steve Winter with pooch pal Toly on the campaign trail.
So you have a school that needs repairs.
You have a planet that needs fewer carbon emissions.
You have a neighborhood where people pay too much for electricity.
Steve Winter has an idea about how to address those three needs at once — and where to find buckets of money to do it.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Winter Has A Geo-Winterizing Idea’
by | Jul 10, 2024 4:30 pm | Comments (16)
Madeline Negrón at WNHH FM.
Madeline Negrón knew she had challenges to tackle when she took over as New Haven’s schools superintendent. She didn’t know about all the sinks with no levers to turn water on and off or the broken HVAC systems leaving people shivering in the winter and sweating in the summer.
Continue reading ‘Settled In Job, Negrón Eyes Decaying School Buildings’
by | Jun 27, 2024 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
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How the dollars and cents add up: Budget Lab founders Danny Yagan, Natasha Sarin and Martha Gimbel.
Martha Gimbel’s new New Haven-based think tank is preparing to help the country figure out a crucial question next year once the smoke clears from this year’s federal election campaigns.
by | Jun 26, 2024 8:59 am | Comments (0)
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Osmanu, at right, with political mentor Justin Farmer at WNHH FM.
Abdul Osmanu was a 14-year-old high school sophomore when he first geeked out on the state Education Cost Sharing (ECS) formula.
Now he’s a 22-year-old candidate for state legislative office looking to apply what he learned to help public schools improve.
Continue reading ‘Osmanu Draws On "Lived Experience" For State Rep Campaign’
by | Jun 21, 2024 11:47 am | Comments (0)
At the onset of the summer’s first heat wave, the beat and the vocals were heating up inside as a new project took the de facto stage in a backroom hookah lounge.
by | Jun 20, 2024 9:16 am | Comments (5)
Author Brill (at right): "If we understand how truth has been so eviscerated, we can see how to restore it."
The Death Of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — And What We Can Do About It
By Steven Brill
Alfred A. Knopf
Villains abound in Steven Brill’s new call to arms to rescue truth from internet disinformation agents and “pink slime” peddlers. My favorite villain is a piece of legislation.