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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Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and with it summer travel. But without a car, it can feel like options are limited in Connecticut. That’s the case for ten percent of households in the state that don’t have access to a car, according to data from National Equity Access. A number of state parks are accessible by public transportation. Park Connect CT, a program from the state Department of Transportation and of Energy and Environmental Protection, is helping residents to understand how to get to them. -
Yale University graduate student workers gathered Wednesday to declare their intent to form a union. -
Middle schoolers in Torrington are required to keep their cellphones locked away during the school day as of April 25. School officials say the effort is part of a greater plan to help students recover academically and socially from remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. But high schoolers and parents oppose the measure, saying cellphone access is important in emergency situations. -
Taxes were due on Monday for individuals and many corporations. But a new report from the Economic Policy Institute shows that 69% of Connecticut corporations paid very little in state corporate income tax between 2016 and 2018. -
The Connecticut economy continued its comeback in February from pandemic-induced job losses. The state has recovered more than 80.5% of the jobs lost since early 2020, according to new data out Thursday from the state Department of Labor. -
Child poverty rose nationally last month because of the end of an expanded Child Tax Credit, according to new data from the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. -
By Monday, Sept. 27, all state employees, K-12 school staff and child care workers must be vaccinated or tested for coronavirus thanks to an executive order by Gov. Ned Lamont. The executive order also gave them the option to undergo weekly testing if they prefer not to get the shot. State hospital and long-term care employees can’t opt out of the shot in favor of testing. -
Motorcyclists from around the region are slated to descend on New Haven on Saturday for East Coastin’, a stunt motorcycle event that’s been hosted by the New Haven-based East Coastin’ Crew for the past four years. Bikers gather to watch and perform stunts and wheelies. -
Twenty-two people have been killed in shootings in New Haven this year. Three of those deaths happened in the last week. And this year’s death count of 22 is already higher than the 20 killings from all of last year in the city. -
An official memorial to the victims of the 9/11 attacks was created at Sherwood Island State Park in Westport in 2002. Now it’s a yearly tradition for families and loved ones of those lost in the attacks to gather at the memorial. On Thursday night, family members, first responders and Connecticut leaders gathered and laid white roses on the memorial and read the names of Connecticut’s lost.
