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FOIC Rules for the Public, Against HMOs

by Paul Bass | Nov 30, 2005 7:57 pm

Following is the text of a press release about a ruling Wednesday by the state Freedom of Information Commission breaking new ground for the public’s right to know how its tax money is spent. An FOIC hearing officer ruled that four private HMOs hired to run the state’s HUSKY program in effect serve a “government function”—and therefore information about the program such as how many thousands of times per month HMOs deny low-income recipients drugs at the pharmacy counter. Click here to learn more about groups working to hold HMOs accountable. And click here to read previous Independent coverage on this case.

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Cops Focus on Four Shootings

by Paul Bass | Nov 30, 2005 3:07 pm | Comments (6)

Chief Cisco Ortiz (above) appealed at a mid-day press conference outside police headquarters Wednesday for the public’s help in solving four shootings, including a murder, that took place within 32 hours of each other.

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“Ed, I Don’t Wanna Die”

by Paul Bass | Nov 30, 2005 2:25 pm

Bleeding on the sidewalk on Kensington Street, 22-year-old Marquis “Toby” White said those words to Ed Beamon after a man in a passing car shot him Tuesday. Beamon (above) returned to the scene of the shooting Wednesday and recalled consoling Beamon until the police arrived. Toby White did die in his hospital bed Wednesday morning. The shooting was one of four within 32 hours that police said were related to a spat between young men from the Dwight and Hill neighborhoods.

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“Would You Like Dessert?” Redux

by Gina Coggio | Nov 30, 2005 9:26 am

The Independent’s schoolteacher /diarist returns to waiting tables on the side, and reads her own eulogy aloud in class.

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Revolt of the Turkeys, Part One

by Allan Appel | Nov 30, 2005 9:16 am

In which a rabble-rousing turkey escapes the farm and finds himself in Washington, where his talents land him a broadcasting job.

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A Challenger Takes on Dillon

by Paul Bass | Nov 29, 2005 6:25 pm | Comments (4)

This woman has decided to do something no one in politics has done for decades: challenge a state representative from New Haven in a primary. She said Tuesday that she will run against Pat Dillon, who has represented the 92nd District since 1984.

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City To Hospital: Gridlock is On Your Tab

by Paul Bass | Nov 29, 2005 12:03 pm | Comments (5)

A new dispute has emerged in Yale-New Haven Hospital’s stalled effort to build a $430 million cancer center: Who should pay for a needed new $3.5 - $4 million set of traffic lights?

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New Haven Traffic Department to Yale-New Haven: Help Us Fix Your Traffic Mess

by Staff | Nov 29, 2005 9:51 am

The New Haven Department of Traffic and Parking recently issued two memos about traffic and parking issues surrounding Yale-New Haven Hospital’s proposed new cancer center. Click on the prompts below to read them.

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Revolt of the Turkeys, Part Two

by Allan Appel | Nov 29, 2005 7:22 am | Comments (1)

In which Terence becomes so popular as a media personality, such a spokesman for the downtrodden, that he is recruited for a political career. Read part two of New Haven novelist and playwright Allan Appel’s four-part Thanksgiving fable. (Click here to start with part one if you didn’t yesterday.)

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Butt to be Kicked?

by Staff | Nov 28, 2005 4:41 pm

Below is a press release issued Monday by Community Action Agency about its new director, who comes to the job after the state Department of Social Services moved to take control of the troubled, scandal-ridden agency.

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