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“Aetna’s Profits Are Making Us Sick”

by Christine Stuart | Apr 27, 2007 9:39 am

Members of the Working Families Party gathered outside Aetna’s headquarters in hospital gowns in response to Aetna’s announcement of its $434 million first-quarter profits, up 8 percent because of increased premiums, membership growth, and cost-cutting measures. Click here for a report by the Independent’s Capitol correspondent.

“Rocket Man” & The Librarian Head For The Skies

by Allan Appel | Apr 27, 2007 9:27 am | Comments (2)

What does an energetic school librarian do to relax after a spring break spent helping to set up a high school library in South Africa? Why, take one, long, deep breath, and then fly off to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with one of her star pupils (pictured) at the Bishop Woods School and help him launch his prize-winning science experiment into space.

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Guerrilla Poets Invade Chapel Street

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 27, 2007 9:26 am | Comments (1)

In celebration of National Poetry Month, students from the Educational Center for the Arts’ poetry class took to the streets, sharing poems in recitations and sidewalk chalk.

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Warrant Put Out For Westville Crash

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 26, 2007 5:22 pm | Comments (1)

A 57-year-old man was slashed with a knife in broad daylight in an apparently random, unprovoked act. The man was helping an elderly woman bring home groceries on Edgewood Avenue near Dwight Street Thursday around noon when someone ran up, put on a mask, pulled out a knife and slashed him in the neck. He was treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Read on for more crime details, according to police spokeswoman Bonnie Posick.

Also around noon Thursday, a man was shot in the Hill neighborhood. After walking into St. Raphael’s Hospital, he told police he had been walking with his cousin at Davenport and Winthrop Avenues when someone fired several rounds at them, one bullet piercing his right thigh.

A 21 year-old was stabbed in the right calf Thursday at 1:54 a.m. on Fitch and Blake Streets. He told police he was stabbed during an attempted robbery.

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Laughing At Auschwitz

by Allan Appel | Apr 26, 2007 5:00 pm

Doron Ben-Atar (at left in photo) learned something from his mother, a Holocaust survivor: People joked often amid mass extermination in the death camps. It was one survival strategy. So people joke often in the new play Ben-Atar wrote based on his mother’s experiences, a play (directed by Jane Tamarkin, also in the photo) that’s about to debut in New Haven. Click here to read about it.

Principal Honored With Tree

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 26, 2007 1:00 pm

Iline Tracey, a soft-hearted “slavedriver” who’s credited with whipping the King/Robinson Magnet School into shape over the past two years, was honored with a living, soon-to-be-
blooming symbol of gratitude.

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Earth Day,  Earth Worms

by Melinda Tuhus | Apr 26, 2007 10:08 am

These kids from New Haven public schools are learning that there’s a connection between the dirt (soil), the wheat that’s planted in it, and the pizza crust that’s made from the wheat. Alexis Wilcox’s finger, on the right, pointed out these connections in an Earth Day event at Common Ground High School on Wednesday.

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“The IC” Vows Minority Jobs In Rebuilding West Rock

by Allan Appel | Apr 26, 2007 10:08 am | Comments (7)

In one of the city’s most abandoned public-housing domains, the Brookside and Rockview housing complexes up in the shadow of West Rock by Hamden’s border, a shining new fence seems to go on forever. It encloses emptied buildings of a failed development. Community leaders, residents, contractors, and outside consultants gathered to start rebuilding not just buildings here, but also lives. The question: How?

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Curfew Dead, Aldermen Call For A Plan—Fast

by VJ Vitkowsky | Apr 26, 2007 9:35 am | Comments (9)

The Board of Aldermen unofficially rejected the youth curfew Wednesday night. Something needs to be done about youth violence, aldermen agreed, but they said they heard the message from residents at three well-attended public meetings that programs—not penalties—are needed.

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Senate Passes Plan B Bill 32-3

by Christine Stuart | Apr 25, 2007 9:48 pm

A bill to require that rape victims be able to obtain emergency contraception at all 18 Connecticut hospitals passed the Senate late Wednesday, even after the Catholic Church withdrew its support for a compromise plan. Click here for the latest from the Independent’s Capitol correspondent (pictured).

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