Cassandra Basler
Former Senior EditorCassandra Basler, a former senior editor at WSHU, came to the station by way of Columbia Journalism School in New York City. She recently graduated with a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, which means she has two years to report on an issue anywhere in the world (she's still figuring out where she'd like to go). She grew up just north of Detroit, Michigan, where she worked for the local public radio affiliate. She also wrote about her adventures sampling the city cuisines for the first guidebook to be published in three decades, Belle Isle to 8 Mile: An Insider's Guide to Detroit. Before that, Cassandra studied English, German and Urban Studies at University of Michigan. When she's not reporting on wealth and poverty, she's writing about food and family.
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Officials in New Haven, Connecticut, are teaming up with the state’s mental health mobile crisis unit to develop an emergency response alternative to…
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Governor Ned Lamont signed into law last week a measure that expands the candidate pool for a new state prosecutor who would investigate police…
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Connecticut will again be eligible to receive more than $6 million dollars in federal policing grants that had been suspended by the Trump administration…
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The police department in Bridgeport, Connecticut, said it’s launching an internal investigation of all officers involved in an arrest where a policeman…
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The lack of footage for a police shooting involving a white Derby, Connecticut, officer and a Black man is drawing attention to the cost of body…
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Connecticut’s child welfare agency is funding access to over 60 mental health care providers who offer evidence-based practices to help children cope…
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Applications to enroll in magnet schools in New Haven, Connecticut, for the upcoming year dropped nearly 30% compared to last year. The school choice…
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The City Council of Norwalk, Connecticut, is set to vote on an expanded definition of gender that includes identity and expression on Tuesday. The change…
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Latino workers have sued a manufacturer in Eastford, Connecticut, over alleged wage theft and racial discrimination.The complaint filed this week on…
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Body camera footage released this week shows a New Haven, Connecticut, police officer pulling a gun and a taser on a Black man, who said he shoplifted…