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Three people who have revived New Haven's almost-lost Orchard Street Shul -- President Judi Janette, Rabbi Mendy Hecht, and congregant Zalman Alpert -- discuss the congregation's history and the future.

Alice Forrester and Kim Jewers-Dailley of the Clifford Beers Clinic describe their newly expanded efforts to help New Haven public-school students and their families deal with trauma that leads to classroom disruption.

On today's episode, host Marcia Chambers brings on John DeCarlo, former Chief of the Branford Police Department and associate professor at the University of New Haven, to talk about how policing has changed in the last year, as challenges to the profession have risen not only in Connecticut, but also across the country.

Custodian Mara Morales, an immigrant from Guatemala, joins Juan Hernandez, president of32BJ SEIU Connecticut, on why they're working hard to elect Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, and how the election affects immigrants.

Custodian Mara Morales, an immigrant from Guatemala, joins Juan Hernandez, president of32BJ SEIU Connecticut, on why they're working hard to elect Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump, and how the election affects immigrants.

Welcome to This Day In John C. Daniels History as your host Allan Appel and the New Haven Museum's Jason Bischoff-Wurstle time travel back to 1989 just days after the soon-to-be city's first African-American mayor in city history had just bested a wet-behind-the-ears young bureaucrat named John DeStefano. As if that weren't precedent enough, Daniels dangles the idea that he could become mayor without relinquishing his powerful seat in the state Senate. That would have been another first, if it had happened.