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The Soundtrack of Frustration: Connecticut’s Top Phone Gripes Exposed
If you are using your speakerphone where others can hear, you are getting on America's nerves. A recent survey by Gameland looked into America's biggest communications pet peeves. They surveyed 2,000 people and found that a surprising 70% of Americans encounter these annoyances at least once a week. But which habits truly crank up the frustration more than an unsolicited loud phone call in public?
CT develops new tools to fight state’s biggest climate problem: flooding
You don’t have to convince Jeff Manville that the costs to upgrade infrastructure in Southbury was money well-spent. Manville — born and raised in Southbury, first selectman since 2015 — is happy to show off the evidence on a hot, blue-sky day precisely one month after catastrophic rain in the Naugatuck Valley area broke Connecticut’s all-time 24-hour rainfall record in less than 12 hours. The expensive bridges that in some places had replaced decades-old culverts show no evidence of the water that ran over them when the storm hit.
Educators call for more funding as pandemic-era monies expire
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — School districts in New Haven and other Connecticut communities are calling for more help from the state and federal governments. And there’s a reason they rallied on Monday. “Millions and millions of dollars, federal dollars, that came through New Haven as a result of the pandemic, those funds are expiring […]
New Haven centers get $600K to boost mental health services
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Two New Haven community health centers are celebrating increased federal funding. Fair Haven and Cornell Scott Hill Health Centers are both getting hundreds of thousands of dollars. The emphasis for this new funding is not physical health, but mental. The Fair Haven Community Health Center is building and expanding. It […]
Dreamer Organizer Ties In Climate
Tabitha Sookdeo has a new job helping undocumented young people stay settled here — and addressing the conditions that lead some others to come here. To her, the two issues, immigration reform and climate change, are related. “It’s all connected,” Sookdeo said during a conversation Thursday on WNHH FM’s...
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