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On this episode, the Rev. Samuel T. Ross-Lee talks about current events and national politics.

Today on "The Tom Ficklin Show" host Tom Ficklin talks with Jesse "The Walking Man" Turner about his 2015 walk from Connecticut. He walked in order to raise awareness of the nations poor public schools, and to support parents, teachers and children.

Mayor Toni Harp discusses a new budget threat from Hartford, the prospects for health care, the civil service rules for the Board of Education, the future of the Vision Trail, and parking tickets.

Did Donald Trump do something right in his order on the Johnson Amedment? What about the state Department of Transportation? Yale? The Yale graduate student fasters? Pundits Babz Rawls-Ivy, Joe Ugly, Markeshia Ricks, Harry Droz, and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes look behind the headlines

Today on "The Table Underground" host Tagan Engel talks with four restaurant workers, Oscar, Antonio, Ivan and Raffael. They shed light on the abusive working conditions they experienced at a local restaurant. Together with two other workers they filed a federal law suit in April 2017 with support from Unidad Latina en Acción and New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Note: this show is in both English and Spanish.

Today on "LoveBabz LoveTalk" host Babz Rawls-Ivy interviews James Oliver, Founder & CEO OF WeMontage.com

Happy birthday, Irving Pinsky! On this celebratory episode host Alisa Bowens and Co-Host Irving Pinsky talk Cinco de Mayo festivities in New Haven, and address the latest news on health care from the White House.

Lisa Bellow is one of the popular girls in eighth grade. Meredith Oliver is not. It's coincidence that they end up at the same sandwich shop one day after school, when a masked gunman walks in, makes them lie down on the floor, demands money from the guy behind the counter, then tells Lisa to come with him. Then Lisa is gone. And Meredith is not. Told from the interweaving perspectives of Meredith and her mother, this is a story about how the near-miss can also be a tragedy, about what it means to be a parent in a world that's full of danger, about how we keep on living even when we've been damaged beyond repair.

Host Cyd Oppenheimer talks with author Susan Perabo about the ways this novel is and isn't about an abduction ("it's about this family, it's about coming of age, it's about motherhood); about her choice to leave us with an ending full of questions; and about "the things we allow ourselves to do that put distance between us and the people that we love."

Guest readers Annie Thoms and Jessica Sager join Oppenheimer to discuss futility and hope, profound acts of courage and kindness, and what it means to "get out of the way."

As state legislators debate the merits and drawbacks of legalizing marijuana in Connecticut -- and talk about why that measure failed this year -- host Michelle Turner sits down with Kebra Smith-Bolden, chair of the Connecticut chapter of Women Grow to talk about the economic opportunity of cannabis in the state.

Jewish Federation, during an appearance on the "Great Give" radiation, updates our listenership on the status of discussions over how to rebuild after the JCC and federation fire.