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Chinese Scholars Meet With Blumenthal

by Staff | Nov 28, 2005 1:07 pm

Following is the text of a press release issued Monday by the International Students’ Organizing Committee of the Graduate Employees and Students’ Organization (GESO) at Yale. It concerns a meeting between state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Chinese scholars at Yale who feel discriminated against by the university.

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Handicapped Parking Crusader Sues City

by Paul Bass | Nov 28, 2005 12:48 pm | Comments (3)

Philip Ball committed an act of defiance against City Hall Monday morning: He parked his Saab by an hourly meter outside his Elm Street law office. After receiving at least 40 tickets over two years, Ball has taken the city to court to challenge its interpretation of the law governing parking for people with disabilities — people like him.

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Voting Machines Impounded

by Paul Bass | Nov 28, 2005 12:46 pm

The State Elections Enforcement Commission has ordered New Haven to impound all machines from the Nov. 8 city elections after a complaint from a voter who believes a mistake prevented him from voting for Guilty Party mayoral candidate Leslie Harper Blatteau. Could Blatteau (shown in photo at her post-election party at cafe nine) have actually topped 1 percent of the vote?

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Revolt of the Turkeys, Part Three

by Allan Appel | Nov 28, 2005 8:24 am | Comments (1)

In which Terence’s surprisingly successful rise as a presidential candidate encounters the mother of all roadblocks when Farmer Ed, recruited by the slime-throwing opposition, outs Terence as a turkey. Here’s part three of New Haven novelist and playwright Allan Appel’s four-part serial.

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One of the Girls, for a Night

by Gina Coggio | Nov 27, 2005 12:44 pm

With trepidation, the Independent’s schoolteacher/ diarist goes to a bachelorette party.

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Two Problems, and a Solution on the Horizon

by Paul Bass | Nov 27, 2005 12:42 pm | Comments (2)

This neighborhood eyesore on Whalley Avenue will remain burned out and empty all winter. But good news has arrived: Four years after an electrical fire gutted it, the building has a new owner with plans to demolish it in the spring. In its stead will rise a $6 million project with 22 apartments for homeless or nearly-homeless elderly people, plus storefronts on the first floor.

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Revolt of the Turkeys, Part Four

by Allan Appel | Nov 27, 2005 8:25 am | Comments (1)

The conclusion of New Haven novelist and playwright Allan Appel’s four-part holiday serial. Today, Terence’s oratory, leadership, and remarkable political candor reach their height, leading the turkey nation —”- and us — into a future perhaps without Thanksgiving.

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In The Stages of (Coliseum) Death & Dying

by Staff | Nov 25, 2005 9:20 am

Reader Howard Blas took these shots the other day while passing the Coliseum in its latest stage of falling to the ground. Have a photo of something happening in New Haven? In your neighborhood? Downtown? Click here and send it our way.

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Dixwell Plaza Holds Steady

by Paul Bass | Nov 25, 2005 9:00 am

Was it just an isolated interruption to a march toward progress? The shopowners at reviving Dixwell Plaza, who come from all over the world, tend to think so. In the wake of a brazen daylight shooting last week, the neighborhood’s main commercial strip continues to draw streams of customers to its stores and to the Stetson public library branch, where Wexler School fifth-grader Rynasia Baldwin (in picture) has been coming ever day after school to work on her science project. (Working title: “Which bubblegum blows the biggest bubble?”)

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Double Thanks

by Paul Bass | Nov 23, 2005 4:57 pm

Thanksgiving arrived early, and twice, at Casa Otoñal this year. The elderly housing complex in the Hill served a festive holiday dinner on Wednesday so that people who have other places to go Thursday, like sisters Sarah Claybourne and Marjorie Higgs (at left and right in photo), could celebrate the holiday with their Casa community, too.

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