New Haven Independent

Monday Ticker

by Paul Bass | December 4, 2006 8:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Pro-union clergy organized a Monday morning City Hall protest to charge Yale-New Haven Hospital with violating an agreement over the current blue-collar organizing drive… Latest crime stats from City Hall: Through November, crime this year is down 7 percent overall from last year, violent crime, 1 percent. The decrease has been mostly in larcenies, motor vehicle thefts, and robberies. Murder’s up from 14 to 21 at this point in the year, aggravated assaults, 913 to 921… Police arrested and a charged a 16-year-old with shooting a 15-year-old in the groin in the CVS parking lot on Sept. 26… This article and this wiki from the latest issue of Governing magazine discuss how media companies are abandoning cities — and how sites like this one fit into the solution… There’s a new teen program at the Boys & Girls Club (253-9 Columbus Ave.) on Mondays through Fridays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., featuring indoor track and field and dance parties (and tight security). For info contact Malik Little at 787-0187… Tom Ficklin has completed a “platinum box set of youth pearls of wisdom,” a slew of video highlights from last week’s moving two nights of testimony from high-schoolers on the proposed teen curfew. Click on the play arrow above for a new sample. Click here to see them all.

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