Should New Haveners be worrying about Zika virus hitting the state? What about maternal-fetal health as the state remains at an alarming infant mortality rate? Today’s programs on WNHH radio explore those questions.
“Mornings with Mubarakah” host Mubarakah Ibrahim talks women’s health with Dr. Marian Evans, practicing physician and assistant professor of public health at Southern Connecticut State University, zeroing in on Connecticut’s alarming infant mortality rate and what women can do to protect themselves and their babies from becoming victims of it. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “ElmCity Lowdown” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
“K Pasa” host Norma Rodriguez-Reyes welcomes on Jeorge Silva, proprietor of Lluvias De Amor ambulatory car wash in New Haven. The two discuss his journey from Chile to the United States, and his choice to open a business in New Haven. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
Raccoons in the road and confusing highway signs — plus “hanging chad” “gores” — are the subject as Erick Filkorn of the Vermont Agency of Transportation joins “SeeClickFix Radio” live on the air. To listen, click on or download the audio above or subscribe to WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
Escape, reinvention, and the power of storytelling are all fodder for today’s “Book Talk.” Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Julia Rochester about her novel The House at the Edge of the World. In the second part of the show, she opens the discussion to fellow readers Tui T. Sutherland and Sophfronia Scott. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “WNHH Arts Mix” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
On This Day in Summer Vacation History, your time-traveling pilot Allan Appel and the New Haven Museum’s Jason Bischoff-Wurstle zoom back to the playgrounds of the now gone Zunder School , named for a Board of Ed luminary from the 1890s — to see how the city’s new vacation schools were faring. Kids — likely the children of the new waves of poor immigrants — got not only supervised play, but some work training, and a bath. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
On This Day In City Consolidation History, hosts Allan Appel and the New Haven Museum’s Jason Bischoff-Wurstle give you the skinny on how East Haven went into hock to pay for its portion of the Ferry Street Bridge. Then New Haven made our adjacent town a deal it couldn’t refuse. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
