Ali Oshinskie
Naugatuck Valley Reporter, Report For AmericaAli Oshinskie is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. She loves hearing what you thought of her stories or story ideas you have so please email her at aoshinskie@ctpublic.org.
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, Here & Now, and Marketplace.
Past public radio work includes, New Hampshire Public Radio’s The Exchange; New England News Collaborative’s NEXT with host John Dankosky; the Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio; and Connecticut Public’s talk shows, Where We Live with host Lucy Nalpathanchil and The Colin McEnroe Show with host Colin McEnroe.
Ali enjoys growing vegetables in her backyard, giving things found in the trash a second life, and a good pair of boots with arch support. She occasionally tweets @ahleeoh.
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After West Hartford residents found a flyer distributed that espoused nationalist and white power ideas, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is reminding municipalities that they can apply for funding to prevent hate crimes. -
Yale University graduate student workers gathered Wednesday to declare their intent to form a union. -
A bill before the Connecticut legislature, if passed, would provide pandemic pay for essential workers who staffed grocery stores and hospitals during the worst of the pandemic. But the scope of the bill most likely will be scaled back, Democratic leadership said Tuesday. -
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. -
Family members of Mubarak Soulemane gathered to mark the arrest of Brian North, who shot and killed the 19-year-old in 2020. -
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. -
Hala Ghali's tax refund was over $20,000. With the money, she's been able to pay off debts and now she's setting aside money to buy her own home. -
The governor and Democratic legislators agree well enough on one thing: Connecticut residents will get some form of tax cuts this legislative session. But the debate for the last three weeks of the session will be over how to offer that relief. -
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Wednesday the nominations of Judge Joan K. Alexander for associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and Judge Hope C. Seeley to the state Appellate Court as Alexander’s successor. -
Connecticut welcomed one of the first Ukrainian refugee families on Monday. Nearly 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since the Russian invasion began in late February, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency. Most have gone to Poland and Romania. The Biden administration said it would welcome 100,000 refugees from Ukraine.
