Cuban Spirit Washes Ashore At Davis
President Obama isn’t the only one opening doors to Cuba.
View ArticleSchool Board Approves Trips Abroad
The Board of Education has voted to approve New Haven schools’ international trips for the coming year, after a debate over perils in the modern era of terrorism..
View ArticleNagasaki Noted, With Silence & Warnings
Joshua Buddington — who was born on Aug. 6, the date in 1945, that the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima — happened to be wandering near the flagpole of the New Haven Green at precisely 11:02 on...
View ArticlePipeline [Controversy] Runs Through Downtown
With pulsating Native American drumming and signs and chants declaring “Drink Water, Not Oil,” “Move to Clean Energy,” and “Hey, hey, ho ho, Dakota Access Got to Go,” demonstrators staged an anti-crude...
View ArticleCity, Changsha Sign “Sister City” Intent
While their national governments argue and negotiate conflicts, the cities of New Haven and Changsha are on their way to establishing official friendship ties.
View ArticleHow She Got The World The Story
The coup leaders ordered CNN’s live-feed quashed. Eileen O’Connor had other ideas.
View ArticleToday on WNHH Radio
Friday’s programs celebrate northern Chinese cuisine, dig into the week’s news, and take a look at women’s economic self-sufficiency around the world.
View ArticleLions Dance, & “Sisters” Toast
Saturday began with a colorful parade through downtown marking the Chinese New Year and was capped with a toast to New Haven’s budding relationship with its Chinese soon-to-be sister city of Changsha —...
View ArticleFrom New Haven To Turkey, With Layers
As she mourned her adopted country’s turn away from a world humanitarian crisis, Vietnamese refugee Trinh Truony found a reason to maintain hope — with the help of eight stuffed suitcases from New Haven.
View ArticleNew Hub Lands In New Haven For Brazilian Start-Ups
New Haven’s ties to Brazil are getting a little stronger thanks to the start of a new venture that seeks to help businesses from that country gain a foothold in the U.S.
View Article“Hypocritical,”“Ill Thought-Out”
Connecticut U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy Friday blasted the Trump administration for the firing of 59 missiles at a Syrian air base, saying responses to Syrian war crimes should be better thought out as part...
View ArticleHolocaust Remembrance Message: “I’m Alive”
As the Jews of Warsaw struggled to stay alive during the early years of World War II, 15-year-old Helene Rosenberg was used to her older brother bringing her back a tchothke — Yiddish for a toy or some...
View ArticleAt Ramadan Feast, It’s 3 Down, 28 To Go
As night fell at Brick Oven Pizza restaurant on Howe Street, Kadir Catalbasoglu lifted a steaming spoonful of şehriye çorbasi — a tomato-based soup with thin noodles — to his mouth. It was the first...
View ArticleECA, China Sign Arts Pact
Newly successful middle and well-to-do classes in China admire America’s immersion in contemporary art and arts education, and want that for their own children.
View ArticleNew Haven, Changsha Sign Sister-City Pact
The half-Chinese and half-African-American McCollum sisters have been speaking Cantonese at home all their lives. Thursday morning they put their linguistic talents to inspirational use, only they had...
View ArticleSister Cities, UNH Join Forces
New Haven Sister Cities just got a whole school full of new ambassadors for the cause of peace thanks to a newly minted partnership with the University of New Haven.
View ArticlePols Seize On Loosening Gun Lobby Grip
New Haven’s Congressional delegation joined more than 100 anti-gun violence advocates on the steps of the New Haven Police Department Friday morning to call on federal lawmakers to support what they...
View ArticleTwo Teachers Face History —& The Grief After Violence
Two men, Tommy and Petesy, stand on a stage. They’re side by side, but an ocean apart. Tommy’s a boxer in New Haven who’s taken a couple punches. Petesy is a tall man whose life in Belfast, Northern...
View ArticleHarp To Pitch Businesses On China Trip
New Haven is on the hunt for new employers — in China.
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