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Welcome to This Day In Vicious Electioneering History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle don our helmets to protect us from the extreme vitriol, nastiness, and downright libelous, sexually insulting invective that characterized the 1828 election between staid incumbent John Quincy Adams and that new breed of politician, upstart Tennessean Andrew Jackson, the first prez to hail from a state not named Virginia or Massachusetts.

Welcome to This Day In Welcoming Refugees History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle time travel to 1849 when a now, barely known persecution of Protestant converts on the Portuguese - read Catholic - Island of Madeira landed fourteen of them at Center Church. There a fundraiser was held to help the refugees, who would eventually number 400 strong, travel to permanent homes in, of all places, Illinois.

On this episode, host Tom Ficklin welcomes award-winning singer/songwriterLara Herscovitch, former CT State Troubadour, to talk about the overlap between the arts and social justice and the work she is doing through her arts outreach to change the state of the juvenile justice system in Connecticut.

Mayor Toni Harp speaks about Halloween in Morris Cove, bus riders in Dixwell, and efforts to avoid a repeat disaster with same-day registration on Election Day

On this episode, host Lucy Gellman talks to Lucy Nolan, Executive Director of End Hunger Connecticut, and fellow WNHH host Babz Rawls-Ivy, editor of the Inner-City News CT, about food insecurity, national politics, and how local and national elections affect the allocation of federal funds to social benefits.

Do black voters feel that they can trust Hillary Clinton? Are her verbal slights and slip-ups against people of color too great to overcome? On this episode of "Community Spotlight," host Samuel T. Ross-Lee, pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church poses these questions, discussing with Ugly Radio's Joe Ugly whether HRC can and will mobilize voters of color on November 8.

In her last episode before the national election, host Babz Rawls-Ivy talks to campaign manager Christine Bartlett-Josie about local and national politics and the Connecticut ballot that voters will see on November 8.

Babz Rawls-Ivy, Joe Ugly and Markeshia Ricks revisit the latest prostitution sting, plans to improve traffic flow on Chapel Street, a Black Lives Matter picket, and the heartwarming reunion of a family with a long-missing man.

On this episode host Norma Rodriguez-Reyes speaks with Patricia Newton-Foster of Newton-Foster Home Care Agency in New Haven about her decision to go into nursing and taking care of others as a profession, and what she has learned about the changing healthcare industry from 17 years running an LLC within it.

She's back as Alisa Bowens-Mercado! On this episode, Alisa talks the Chicago Cubs' historic World Series win, and opens the phone lines to Clinton and Trump supporters for last-minute thoughts on the election.