Ansonia Chief Financial Officer Kurt Miller explains why the city isn't sticking to the rules with the city's budget process, and why the city enacted a spending freeze at the start of the year.
On this week's episode Valerie Knight-DiGangi of The Valley Community Foundation stops by to encourage groups to apply for a VFC "responsive needs" grant, which are multi-year grants that can be used to bolster a nonprofit group's operating budget.
The deadline for "responsive needs" grant applications is Feb. 24, so head to the VCF website to learn more and to complete an application.
At about the 31 minute of the podcast, the topic switches to a recent debate that started during a meeting of the Ansonia Board of Apportionment and Taxation, when two Ansonia Democrats said the board only has five members when the city charter says there should be seven members.
Three students in Derby called for tougher gun regulations while students in Shelton carefully avoided making policy recommendations during separate events marking Wednesday’s “National School Walkout.”
Click play to listen to commentary and clips from the students in Derby and Shelton, along with interviews with school officials from Derby.
Students all over the U.S. organized events at 10 a.m. March 14 to mark the one-month anniversary of the mass murder of 14 students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
While the local “walkout” participants were anything but monolithic, the movement’s general goal is to end the mass shootings that seem to have become epidemic.
Valley Indy reporter Eugene Driscoll tries recording a Christmas-themed podcast with his 6-year-old son, Jack, and his 3-year-old daughter, Emma.
Driscoll's wife is there, at least in spirit, in the form of an angry voicemail played at the start of the episode.
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everybody.
Back in the year 2000 or so, New York City real estate tycoon Donald Trump was trying to build a golf course on the shores of Byram Lake, the drinking water for the Village of Mount Kisco, N.Y. about 45 miles north of the city.
Valley Indy reporter Eugene Driscoll, then a reporter with The Patent Trader, a weekly newspaper in Westchester County, N.Y., conducted a phone interview with Trump.
Driscoll found the cassette recording in a shopping bag in his basement in mid-November, and he and reporter Ethan Fry decided to turn the old recording into a podcast, complete with commentary.
Enjoy.
Valley Indy reporters record a podcast while using Facebook Live video.
Four readers ask questions.
It's easier to make money on Facebook by spreading fake news than doing community-oriented news like ValleyIndy.org.
Donald Trump won the popular vote in the lower Naugatuck Valley, and voters threw out two incumbent Democrats on the state level.
Yet they also voted for one of the most progressive members of the U.S. House of Representatives -- Rosa DeLauro -- and they chose to stick with U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, another Democrat.
In this episode of "Navel Gazing: The Valley Indy Podcast," Seymour First Selectman Kurt Miller, a Republican, and Ansonia's Tarek Raslan, a Democrat, join local reporters Eugene Driscoll and Ethan Fry for a wide-ranging discussion on the state and federal races, and where the country goes from here.
Political newcomer Joseph Jaumann of Ansonia is trying to unseat Democratic incumbent state Rep. Linda Gentile in the 104th District.
In an interview with the Valley Indy, Jaumann talks about trying to get his name out there, the Connecticut economy, gun control, Donald Trump, taxes, and growing up in Mahopac, N.Y.
Click play to listen.
State Rep. Linda Gentile (D-Ansonia) is up for re-election and she stopped by the Valley Indy office to address topics ranging from taxes to whether she’ll debate her Republican opponent.
Click play to listen.
State Sen. Joseph Crisco is up for re-election in the 17th District, an area that includes Derby and Ansonia.
In an interview with the Valley Indy, Crisco accentuates the positive by running down a list of funding the state has provided for projects in Derby and Ansonia.
Election Day is Nov. 8.
Nicole Klarides-Ditria, of Seymour, is challenging state Rep. Theresa Conroy for her seat in the state House.
Klarides-Ditria, a Republican, is the Deputy First Selectman of Seymour. Her sister is Themis Klarides, the state House Minority Leader.
In an interview with Valley Indy reporters Eugene Driscoll and Ethan Fry, Klarides-Ditria talks about why she should replace Conroy in Hartford, and explains why she thinks the Democratic Party's policies are bad for Connecticut.
Election Day is Nov. 8.
State Rep. Theresa Conroy represents Beacon Falls, Seymour and part of Derby in the state legislature.
She is up for re-election Nov. 8.
Conroy, a Democrat, is being challenged by Nicole Klarides-Ditria, a Republican member of the Seymour Board of Selectmen (and sister of Republican Minority House Leader Themis Klarides).
The Valley Indy talks to Conroy about jobs, Gov. Malloy, tech schools and a host of other issues in this campaign 2016 podcast.
Derby voters are being asked whether to delete a check and balance that prevents city employees from taking elected or appointed office without first getting a waiver from the Board of Aldermen.
Guests: Derby Aldermanic President Carmen DiCenso, Alderman Art Gerckens, Alderman Joe DiMartino, Walt Mayhew and Adam Pacheco.
Host: Valley Indy reporter Eugene Driscoll