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The Connecticut Bar Association's new president discusses opiodis, Donald Trump, and other issues facing the organization.

Host Michelle Turner welcomes Odell Cooper, Career Pathways Manager at ConnCAT, to talk about the institution's new culinary program and cafe -- and why she believes in the educational service that ConnCAT provides to New Haveners.

This is the second set of a performance by Bivolita Klezmer at Orchard Street Shul on the afternoon of 9.18.16.

On this episode, host Tom Ficklin welcomes Gwen Samuel, founder and president of the CT Parent's Union (CTPU), to talk about education in Connecticut -- including what needs to change.

Mayor Toni Harp discusses the latest Board of Education controversy, the state of democracy, the future of parking at Union Station, and the recent gun violence in town.

Welcome to This Day in Ooops, I May Have Jumped To Wrong Conclusions History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to 1876. That's when a citizen calling himself or herself Dynamite got very concerned that our town might blow up because Winchester armory-bound wagons full of powder were seen on busy streets and being hauled by carelessly smoking drivers. Could Dynamite really see or know what was in those barrels? Officials responded that it was not powder, all is safe, don't worry, be happy. But who was right?

Welcome to This Day In H-2-O History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to 1876 to attend a rally for presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hays — his Democrat opponents called him RutherFraud — and on the way we stop off at the city council Committee on Water meeting to check out how the city finally is thinking of purchasing a water works. But, darn it, the meeting is "secret" and they didn't let us in.

Welcome to This Day In Careless Pipe Smoking History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to 1876 when a concerned letter-write pseudonymed Dynamite observed — on fancy Hillhouse Avenue no less — the drivers of wagons full of powder barrels bound for the Winchester factory smoking away and dropping sparks near their explosive cargo. But was he dreaming it all up?

Welcome to This Day In Black Lives Didn't Matter History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to the turning-point year of 1876 when the "White Liners," Confederate veterans who had become vigilantes allied with the Democratic Party, murdered with impunity hundreds of African-Americans and ultimately forced the Republicans to withdraw federal troops from the South, which opened the floodgates of what became the era of Jim Crow. and the Klan.

In 1876, Grand Street was shelled — not bombed out, but surfaced with oyster shells, which were considered the best pavement at the time. It was certainly an improvement over the packed dirt that it covered. Join hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle on This Day In Shelling History as they take you back.