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Tales From New Haven's Abortion Underground Yield Modern Warning

by | Mar 14, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (1)

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Author Biederman at WNHH FM, and her new book about a the underbelly of New Haven-Bridgeport's turn-of-the-century abortion trade.

Emma Gill’s severed foot and severed head washed up on a beach. Three boys stumbled across them.

That was in 1898. Might new such discoveries loom as a new era of abortion prohibition looms?

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"Dems For Dems" Crush Challengers

by and | Mar 5, 2024 8:16 pm | Comments (26)

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Ward 18 challengers Zelema Harris and Sharon Braz congratulate Chris Avallone on his victory at Nathan Hale School.

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Victorious co-chair candidate Gary Hogan (at left) declared "a new Ward 28" in congratulating challenger Ephrat Lieblich (center) on a good race. Fellow victor Jess Corbett at right.

(Updated with official final results) A slate of insurgents raised issues — then ended up losing all their races Tuesday — in the city’s first competitive Democratic ward co-chair primaries in over a decade.

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Local $ Talked, Thanks To Democracy Fund

by | Dec 19, 2023 4:35 pm | Comments (4)

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Democracy Fund's Aaron Goode, Sarah Ficca, Aly Heimer at WNHH FM.

Candidates who ran for mayor under New Haven’s public-financing system raised 90 percent of their money from New Haveners, 28 percent more than clean-elections-defying rivals.

They also raised more local donations: over 47,000 (totaling over $4 million) from 2011 – 2023 versus some 16,000 donations worth $2.6 million for nonparticipants.

Those metrics emerge from a newly released study of the New Haven Democracy Fund, which has administered the city’s public-financing program since its 2007 inception.

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New Haven News Quiz 11/24-12/1

by | Dec 1, 2023 9:36 am | Comments (6)

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Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.

1) What record store used to occupy part of the former York Square Cinemas building that Yale just bought at 57 – 9 Broadway?
A) Cutler’s Records & Tapes
B) Vinyl-torium
C) Group W Bench
D) Rhymes Records
E) Elm City Sounds

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IRIS Torch Passed

by | Nov 27, 2023 11:48 am | Comments (0)

Next: Chris George and successor Maggie Mitchell Salem.

Running a $12 million-a-year nonprofit with 138 staffers helping resettle 1,000 refugees a year is a big enough challenge.

Add to that inheriting the helm of such an effort from a person who made all that possible over 18 years.

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86,000 Job Matches Await

by | Nov 27, 2023 11:40 am | Comments (2)

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Marcia LaFemina, Yolanda Caldera-Durant, Ann Harrison at WNHH FM.

Some 86,000 jobs are going begging in Connecticut, many of them paying a living wage and not requiring a college degree. Thousands of people without college degrees need those jobs. So put those people in the jobs — simple, right?

Not so simple.

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New Haven News Quiz 10/28-11/3

by | Nov 3, 2023 10:36 am | Comments (2)

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Inside one of the Rosette Street mini-shelters.

Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.

1. The city has issued cease-and-desist orders against the Amistad Catholic Worker House for its construction of 60-to-100-square-foot huts for the homeless in its backyard. What has been Amistad’s Mark Colville’s response to the orders?

A. He’ll take the shelters down
B. He’ll cease but not desist
C. He’ll desist but not cease
D. He’ll keep them up

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New Haven News Quiz 10/20-27

by | Oct 27, 2023 9:57 am | Comments (0)

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A pre-Election Day messaging session.

Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.

1) What existential issue is motivating the most visible opponent of the New Haven charter reform referendum on the Nov. 7 ballot?
A) 4‑year mayoral terms
B) fiscal solvency
C) lifetime appointments to the volunteer Board of Park Commissioners
D) lifetime prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders
E) chartered airplane flights to Las Vegas

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Future Firefighter Finds His Path

by | Sep 28, 2023 3:04 pm | Comments (0)

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Fire Lt. Derrick Meade, Board of Ed's Abigail Rivera, Fire Capt. Troy Frost, and Asst. Police Chief David Zannelli at WNHH FM.

Three grown men who literally fight fires and crimes for a living received surprise plaques Thursday for helping try to put out a metaphorical fire — young people entering adulthood in challenging times with no path to productive careers.

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