Ali Oshinskie
Ali Oshinskie is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. Ali reports on the Naugatuck River Valley with an emphasis on work, economic development, and opportunity in the Valley. Her work has appeared on NPR, Marketplace, and The Hartford Courant.
Before coming to Connecticut Public, Ali served as a fellow on New Hampshire Public Radio’s The Exchange, producing candidate conversations for the 2020 Presidential Primary. She worked for the New England News Collaborative’s NEXT podcast with host John Dankosky. She interned at Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio and for Connecticut Public’s talk shows, Where We Live and The Colin McEnroe Show. Ali founded and ran Podstories, a podcasting company.
Ali’s photography won first place for Spot News Photo in the 2019 Distinguished Journalism Awards from the New Hampshire Press Association. Her writing will be a published in Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction coming in October 2020. Ali enjoys growing vegetables in her backyard, light dumpster diving, and a good pair of boots with arch support.
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Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in America, when the last enslaved people in the United States, in Galveston, Texas, finally heard that they were free. That was June of 1865. Connecticut only abolished slavery 17 years earlier.
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A bipartisan group of Connecticut lawmakers is co-sponsoring a bill that would require supermarkets to periodically donate unsold food that’s still edible. Republican and Democratic lawmakers expressed support for expanding food donations to help those in need, but there was debate over whether to mandate them.
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In Waterbury, Ct., where less than 40% of Black residents are fully vaccinated, teenagers are going door-to-door to encourage people to get their shot.
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Gov. Ned Lamont advises those who can stay home Friday to do so as Tropical Storm Elsa makes its way through Connecticut. He said the state’s emergency...
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The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has alerted state officials to an act of anti-Islamic hate speech at the Cheshire…
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J.R. Romano announced Tuesday night that he has resigned as chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party. Last October, Romano had said he would step...
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Parents and relatives got to see what life will look like for socially distanced students at Bridgeport’s Central High School Monday. Superintendent...
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Voters go to the polls today in an unusual election year. With over 300,000 absentee ballots requested for the primary elections, much of the voting has...
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There’s a primary next week. And though absentee balloting has been the talk, the question now is whether the power outages caused by Tropical Storm...