Tom Kuser News Today

The war in Ukraine has raged on for more than a year and it has revealed unique connections with Connecticut. Two writers and educators in Connecticut decided to address the conflict by transforming their correspondence with friends in Ukraine and Russia into a multimedia play.

Tom has been with WSHU since 1987, after spending 15 years at college and commercial radio and television stations. He became Program Director in 1999, and has been local host of NPR’s Morning Edition since 2000.

WSHU’s Senior Political Reporter Ebong Udoma speaks with Morning Edition Host, Tom Kuser about the results of the highly consequential presidential elections in Nigeria.

This holiday week, we’re sharing two conversations that take us on a journey filled with ghostly apparitions, time travel, family secrets, and regicide.

This December marks ten years since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. We look at how the residents have strived to recover from the tragedy.

Actor and producer Gerald Dickens brings his great-great grandfather's classic holiday tale of ghosts, time travel, and redemption to life in his one-man adaptation.

This Sunday, pianist Jaqueline Schwab will perform here at the WSHU studios. WSHU’s Tom Kuser spoke with her about her latest album, “I Lift My Lamp: Illuminations from Immigrant America.”

How Social Media is transforming Racial Justice and uncovering the lives of people of color who were laid to rest in an ancient burial ground in Hartford.

Connecticut State Senator Will Haskell writes about his campaign and serving as the youngest state Senator in Connecticut in his new book: “100,000 First Bosses: My Unlikely Path As A 22-Year Old Lawmaker.”

We speak with the lawyers who have worked on this case to find out if the settlement achieves the original goals of the lawsuit.