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Host Mubarakah Ibrahim interviews author Yvonne Maffei. Yvonne is the founder of the hugely popular cooking blog and Islamic lifestyle website My Halal Kitchen. Her new book, My Halal Kitchen: Global Recipes, Cooking Tips, and Lifestyle Inspiration, celebrates halal cooking and shows readers how easy it can be to prepare halal meals. Her cookbook collects more than 100 recipes from a variety of culinary traditions, proving that halal meals can be full of diverse flavors.

Connecticut's junior U.S. senator looks back on what's not working in Washington -- but also, below the radar, what is.

On this episode, host Melissa Loucks talks new anti-discrimination measures in Michigan and Minnesota, and tells the story of several individuals nationwide facing transgender discrimination in the workplace, and what they are doing to fight it.

Dominique Lasseur discusses the documentaries he helps high school students make to wrestle with pressing civic issues, in the interest of building the roots of a healthy democracy. (This episode was made possible in part thanks to support from Yale-New Haven Hospital.)

Host Marcia Chambers welcomes lawyer Dan Klau back to talk about New Haven Independent reporter David Sepulveda's arrest, how president-elect Donald J. Trump may violate the Emoluments Clause of the constitution when he takes office in January, and collective bargaining in Connecticut government.

On this episode host Greg Grinberg talks to the city's Chief of Economic Development Matthew Nemerson about how to turn economic development in New Haven into a source of forward movement and social good for Elm Citizens.

Host Tom Ficklin interviews author Tom Krattenmaker, Director of Communications at the Yale Divinity School, to talk about his new book "Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower."

Welcome to This Day In Erector Set History as your host Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time-travel back to Christmas in 1916 when the A.C. Gilbert Company of Erector Set fame was pitching "Brik-tor," a new toy that they were marketing by trying to organize engineering clubs for boys to rival the Boy Scouts. Meanwhile, over at Shartenberg's Department store, they're selling Jordans, not the sneakers, but Ned Jordan's new auto-mobile where the trick was he manufactured nothing but assembled the vehicle from parts bought from other companies.

Welcome to This Day In Appliance-Buying History as Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel you back to Christmas time 1916 when the United Illuminating Company was eager for the housewives of New Haven to put away their washboards and instead invest big time in their whole array of new electrical appliances, including a washing machine that put clothes through the wringer, and, yes, an electric vibrator to relax with after the wash is done.

Welcome to This Day In Christmas-At-The-Front History as your time-traveling host Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum go back to 1917. America had just entered the war in Europe and the writers of a Saturday Chronicle article declare that the gifts Connecticut boys on the front lines in France are receiving are a darn sight better than what they experienced as young young soldiers in the Civil War.