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In the spirit of last week’s Great Give, the latest broadcasts on WNHH radio explore and fête area nonprofits, check in on the city’s budget woes, and look at the city’s history of mental health treatment.
On “Valley Navel Gazing,” host and Valley Independent Sentinel reporter Eugene Driscoll talks about the Valley Indy’s marathon streaming video webcast during the Great Give, during which about 20 nonprofit leaders made appearances. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “ValleyIndy” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
Joining host Paul Bass on “Dateline New Haven,” Mayor Toni Harp talks about contingency plans to fill an $8 million budget hole, grassroots efforts to fight obesity and hunger in city neighborhoods, and Mother’s Day. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
“Tom Ficklin Show” host Tom Ficklin welcomes the Reverend Bonita Grubbs, executive director of Christian Community Action. The two discuss her life and work in New Haven. To listen, click on or download the audio above or subscribe to WNHH’s “Elm City Lowdown” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
This Day in Improving The New Haven Green History: Join your host Allan Appel and the New Haven Museum’s Jason Bischoff-Wurstle as they time travel to 1875 when the town fathers debate whether the children’s skating pond on the Green should be abolished. By the way, our town common for hundreds of years was known as “the marketplace” or by other appellations. Around 1875 it was newly dubbed the Green. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
On “Dateline New Haven,” New Haven’s new food system policy director, Joy Johannes, talks about her plans to tackle food insecurity — aka hunger — in the city. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
This Day in New Haven Mental Health History: Your time-traveling hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum mark Mental Health Awareness Month with a discussion of why Asylum Street in the Hill is called that, who Clifford Beers was, and a look at town ordinances of 1928 creating a separate city department of “charities and corrections.” To listen, click on or download the audio above.
