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Borgstrom Shows Up—At The Lawn Club

by Paul Bass | Jan 29, 2007 4:29 pm | Comments (6)

Yale-New Haven President Marna Borgstrom defied a request to appear Monday night at a Board of Aldermen meeting to explain why her hospital broke an agreement for a fair and legal union organizing drive. But she and other top brass did stop by the Lawn Club Monday morning to discuss the subject privately with Mayor John DeStefano and Board of Aldermen President Carl Goldfield.

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Politicians Tiptoe Toward Maybe Considering Ethics

by Paul Bass | Jan 29, 2007 4:00 pm | Comments (1)

Ethics reform in city government—stalled by leading politicians for more than a year—is now moving forward, kind of. After months of deliberation, the mayor’s office and the president of the Board of Aldermen have named a “working group” to consider what to tell an aldermanic committee what to tell the full Board of Aldermen about the proposal, introduced by out-of-favor Hill Alderman Jorge Perez (pictured).
As of Monday, the working group still didn’t have a meeting scheduled.

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Who’s Buying What, Where

by Paul Bass | Jan 29, 2007 2:09 pm

Following are details of home sales that took place in the city from Jan. 22, 2007, through Jan. 28, 2007, according to land records on file at the City/Town Clerk’s Office.

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City Helps Undocumented Immigrants Pay Taxes

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 29, 2007 9:22 am | Comments (11)

Sherena Palmer (pictured), an 18-year-old housekeeper who just moved to New Haven from Jamaica, waited in line at the public library to get free help filing her first U.S. tax form. In a bold move, the city’s low-income tax assistance program is reaching out not only to legal residents like Palmer, but to undocumented immigrants, too.

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Cops Help Homeless Battle The Cold

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 29, 2007 9:20 am | Comments (2)

Joe lifted up a blanket covering his highway-side hideout, letting in a rush of artic wind. A police sergeant had come looking for him, but not to lock him up.

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The Store’s The Thing

by Nicole Allan | Jan 29, 2007 9:15 am

annex%20ribbon%20cutting.jpg These four theater jocks have designed a different set with a different purpose—a new crafts store on Audubon Street.

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News From The Compost Heap

by Paul Bass | Jan 26, 2007 11:19 am

Direct from the compost heap ... er, newsroom ... comes the latest edition of the Independent’s opinionated v-log news summary. Special Boot and Spine Edition. Click on the play arrow to watch the video. And click here to watch the most recent news segments about New Haven’s Latino community from La Voz Hispana. (If video stops and starts, press pause for a moment, then play again.)

Habitat Suspends Plans Near Taurus

by Melissa Bailey | Jan 26, 2007 9:36 am | Comments (10)

In a move the organization says may be unprecedented nationwide, Habitat for Humanity has opted not to move a new family into a newly built Newhallville home evacuated by its owner. After the woman who lived there fled for fear of her safety, Habitat said it has “put on hold” its plans to build six more homes nearby in close proximity to the Taurus Caf√©.

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Cops Pitch $6M Rebuilt Shooting Range

by Nicole Allan | Jan 26, 2007 9:19 am | Comments (1)

Newhallville Alderman Charles Blango (pictured at center right) sees the effect of his neighborhood police firing range on schoolkids every day. “I live in the neighborhood, I work in the school system, and I can tell you it becomes the norm,” he said at a City Hall meeting concerning the police firing range on Sherman Parkway, which the department wants to rebuild in its current location. “I’ve always been a friend of the police department, but you watch how the kids’ behavior shifts”—when they play-shoot each other in the halls—“and it just becomes a way of life.”