About

Raising Hale is a media project of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy. We believe that the more attention people pay to government, the better it functions. Raising Hale will be a source of information for the people of Connecticut with investigative reporting, breaking news and online videos.

Zachary Janowski is an investigative reporter for the Yankee Institute and is responsible for the material posted to Raising Hale. Most recently he was editor of The Southington Citizen, a weekly community newspaper, and he has daily reporting experience from the Willimantic Chronicle. He lives in Plantsville. Contact Zach at zach(at)yankeeinstitute.org (to help combat spam, please re-write his e-mail address in your e-mail program, replacing “at” with @). He tweets @RaisingHaleCT and you can also connect with him on his Facebook page.

Other members of the Yankee Institute staff, including executive director Fergus Cullen and policy director Heath Fahle, also contribute to Raising Hale. Interns will contribute from time to time as well.

Nathan Hale, Connecticut’s most famous Revolutionary War hero, provides the inspiration for this site. Hale believed Connecticut could have a better government – and he sacrificed his life for it. We are grateful for the freedoms Hale died for and we plan to Raise Hale by exercising them.