Davis Dunavin
ReporterDavis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning and Peabody Award-nominated journalist, he is the host of WSHU's Off the Path and created and hosted the 2022 series Still Newtown. He also teaches classes in media studies at Sacred Heart University. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.
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State regulators voted against a proposed deal to sell Aquarion to the New Haven-based Regional Water Authority for $2.4 billion. -
Winter is coming, and advocates fear that the Trump administration's cuts could force thousands more Connecticut residents into homelessness as federal housing aid is slashed by 70%. -
The ACLU of Connecticut says police departments should stop using automatic license plate readers because the data could be shared with federal agencies like ICE. -
Eversource’s four billion-dollar-plus plan to sell off the water company Aquarion isn’t popular with some Connecticut officials. They include State Attorney General William Tong and dozens of town leaders. -
The Trump administration says it’ll only partially fund the nation’s SNAP benefits this month, following a court order to do so. The head of a Bridgeport, Connecticut-based food pantry said that it won’t be enough. -
Every Halloween, WSHU’s Off the Path gets a little .... spooky. Visits to Lizzie Borden’s house, a haunted pirate cave, and Sleepy Hollow, to name a few. This year, reporter Davis Dunavin finds himself on a boat in the middle of New York Harbor — surrounded by creatures of the night — for New York City’s 5th annual vampire cruise. -
A new book paints a picture of 40 years of wrestling history — as seen through the eyes of one of its most successful and beloved stars, Gorilla Monsoon. WSHU’s Davis Dunavin sat down with the author, wrestling historian Brian Solomon. -
The origins of the word "podunk" are shrouded in history. In the Algonquin language, it most likely meant a boggy place, a swamp or a junction of streams and rivers. But we now use it to mean a small, unimportant, and isolated place. There was also a tribe called the Podunk, one of many who lived and fished on the Connecticut River. -
An Indigenous tribe named the Podunk once lived along the Connecticut River. The origin of the name is murky, but it probably described the place where the Podunk lived: boggy, swampy, or maybe even a junction of streams and rivers. The name has come to mean something else over the years: a small, out-of-the-way town. How did it get there?
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The Appalachian Trail stretches more than 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia. It was the brainchild of an idealistic forester who drew inspiration from a mountain top in Vermont.
