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Feb 3, 2012
Two years into New Haven’s school reform effort, there are signs of improvement. But as WNPR’s Neena Satija reports, it’s not yet clear if the effort is really working. New Haven began its school reform campaign by placing its schools into three different tiers. Last year, it then designated some of the lowest-performing, or Tier Three schools, as “turnaround” schools, implementing significant staff and other changes. Since then, none of the schools have managed to move up a tier – in fac... read more
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Feb 3, 2012
New Haven’s newest police chief continues to make significant changes to the city’s police department. But as WNPR’s Neena Satija reports, some in the community are questioning his move to replace all of his top aides, including the first African-American woman to become an assistant chief. WNPR’s Neena Satija reports. When Dean Esserman took the job of New Haven’s top cop late last year, he was largely supported by a community who’d lost the former chief in a sudden, unannounced departur... read more
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Feb 2, 2012
The police commission in East Haven has voted unanimously - chief Len Gallo must go. Chief Gallo had already said he was stepping down in the w... read more
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Feb 2, 2012
Today we have what I think of as the Terry Gross Problem. I'm always impressed by the way Terry Gross just leads with her own pop culture taste... read more
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Feb 1, 2012
Even if you think you have absolutely no relationship to Christian metal, you might have to think again, especially if you were a faithful watcher... read more
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Jan 31, 2012
Having a “high metabolism” is seen as a positive for humans...what about cities? The idea of “urban metabolism” comes from a new book by Austin... read more
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Jan 27, 2012
I was appalled by the now famous taco comment by East Haven mayor Joe Maturo. The mayor had two jobs to do when the story broke last Tuesday about... read more
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Jan 27, 2012
  The Market at Hartford 21 was open for just six months in downtown Hartford. And as WNPR's Jeff Cohen reports, the failed grocery store still owes money to vendors -- and the city.   Stuart Woronecki owns Stonewall Apiary in Hanover.  Last year, he delivered honey, creamed honey, an... read more
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Jan 26, 2012
A diverse group of social service providers has just received $2.5 million in federal money to help New Haven mothers suffering from mental health issues. WNPR’s Neena Satija reports. Women are most likely to suffer from mental illness during their child-bearing years, and poor minority mothe... read more
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Jan 26, 2012
OK, how many of you have at least thought or daydreamed about putting on a costume and fighting crime. Childhood doesn't count. As a kid I had... read more
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Jan 26, 2012
New Haven’s hyperlocal news web site, the New Haven Independent, is trying out an experiment today by approaching news coverage in a different way. WNPR’s Neena Satija reports. (Noise from a police radio) What’s happening on the streets of New Haven at 2 o’clock in the morning? On a recen... read more
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Jan 25, 2012
My e-mail inbox is full of pitches for memoirs. Here's one by Deirdre Marie Capone called, "Uncle Al." The press release refers to Al Capone as... read more
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Jan 25, 2012
Last week, the National Alliance to End Homeless released an annual report that said homeless is down slightly, but the number of people who are do... read more
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Jan 24, 2012
Connecticut has two casinos that generate millions of dollars a year for the state.  And after the U.S Department of Justice cleared the way fo... read more
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Jan 24, 2012
  Teen birth rates are on the decline nationwide.  But as part of a collaboration with the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, WNPR's Jeff C... read more
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Jan 24, 2012
The lead story in today's New York Times is the second donation, by one married couple, to a Super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich. Miriam Adelson gav... read more
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Jan 23, 2012
  It's been more than a decade since another governor tried to remake the state's capital city with more than a billion dollars of investment.  As WNPR's Jeff Cohen reports, now Governor Dannel Malloy wants to leave a mark, too.    Former Governor John Rowland tried to build downtown... read more
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Jan 20, 2012
Connecticut is widely known as a center of submarine development and production, but few people are aware of the long history of Connecticut’s involvement in this specialized field of naval architecture. Connecticut’s David Bushnell helped pioneer undersea warfare during the American Revoluti... read more
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Jan 19, 2012
It's hard to keep an even keel about the debate over the two Internet anti-piracy laws known as SOPA and PIPA. Yesterday's spectacle, if it rev... read more
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Jan 18, 2012
  Today the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program releases its Global MetroMonitor report - ranking the world’s 200 largest metropolitan econom... read more
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