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Outreach Workers Broker Truces

by Nicole Allan | Nov 29, 2007 12:25 pm | Comments (19)

In four months New Haven’s new street outreach workers have engaged 100 more high-risk young people than originally expected. And they’ve negotiated neighborhood truces.

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City Hall Comes To Newhallville

by Kevin Halligan | Nov 29, 2007 11:00 am | Comments (2)

City Hall came to Newhallville in the flesh, and heard from parents like PTO Regina Watts and Tammie Bromell that King/Robinson School needs a school nurse and adequate lighting in the back parking lot.

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Students to Mayo: Enough “Drill & Kill”

by Allan Appel | Nov 29, 2007 9:44 am | Comments (14)

Student leaders delivered a message to schools chief Reginald Mayo about proposed new graduation requirements: Oy! Please no more tests and no more teaching to the test! Mayo heard the message — and agreed.

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Ode To Osama

by Melissa Bailey | Nov 28, 2007 5:28 pm | Comments (1)

In secretly recorded phone calls that rang through a quiet courtroom, an ex-U.S. Navy sailor laughs with a friend as a sniper tears U.S. soldiers’ bodies apart, and lauds the “psychological anxiety” wreaked on the USA by his coded hero (pictured), “Under the Black Leaves.”

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Betsy Ross, Meet Alvin Ailey Co.

by Staff | Nov 28, 2007 12:48 pm

The public schools sent in these photos and the following write-up about a dance workshop at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School conducted by a teacher from the Alvin Ailey Co.

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Smuts: Firehouse Probe Finished

by Paul Bass | Nov 28, 2007 12:34 pm | Comments (14)

City official Rob Smuts made a discovery while investigating a firehouse “strangling” fight: The city thought it had a zero-tolerance no-violence policy. It doesn’t.

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A “Very Cool” Encounter

by Allan Appel | Nov 28, 2007 12:33 pm | Comments (1)

Jasmine Nicholas (on the right in the photo) confronted the mayor and the superintendent on suspensions policy — not just as a student, but as a member of an activist group focused on the schools.

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The Light Bulb Question

by Staff | Nov 28, 2007 9:39 am | Comments (8)

Independent reader and commenter Cedar Hill Resident is on a mission: To dispose of energy-saving light bulbs. She writes in the following account of her quest:

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“Purple States” Adds Twist To Prez Quest

by Allan Appel | Nov 28, 2007 9:12 am | Comments (2)

These folks aim to bring a touch of 5th century B.C. Athenian direct democracy to the coverage of the 21st century American presidential primaries and beyond.

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Walker Questions Post-Petit Proposals

by Melinda Tuhus | Nov 28, 2007 8:09 am | Comments (18)

New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker (pictured) and Connecticut’s chief public defender spoke out amid a tide calling for locking up more people in the wake of the Petit family murders.

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