by Christopher Peak | Dec 18, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (5)
Mayor Toni Harp has hired a private investigator to look into allegations that the school board president makes the superintendent so uncomfortable that she won’t meet alone with him anymore.
by Thomas Breen | Dec 17, 2018 4:42 pm | Comments (15)
Verna spent five years sleeping on the streets after she lost her manufacturing job.
Now living in her own Fair Haven apartment, she’s still haunted by the constant stress, anxiety, and humiliation she felt whenever city police asked her to move from a bench or a sidewalk grate or a stretch of grass downtown where she had managed to fall asleep.
On Monday afternoon, Verna added her voice and her story to a broader call by local homelessness advocates seeking to codify a city “bill of rights” for New Haveners without a home.
by Sam Gurwitt | Dec 17, 2018 1:59 pm | Comments (3)
Budget deficits, pension obligations, capital sweeps, and the smell of coffee filled the air at Books & Co in Whitneyville as Hamden officials and citizens met to discuss the closing of the town’s 2017-2018 budget —and how the numbers added up.
by Christopher Peak | Dec 17, 2018 7:37 am | Comments (23)
At last week’s school board meeting, President Darnell Goldson said that his fellow board member Frank Redente was out sick.
That’s partly true, Redente said a few days later. He hadn’t been seen for months, he explained, because he was “sick” of being on the Board of Education.
by Markeshia Ricks | Dec 14, 2018 1:12 pm | Comments (6)
New Haven cops have shaved their beards after a month-long campaign to raise cancer awareness. After a taste of hirsute freedom, some in the department are pushing for permission to let their facial hair grow back for good.
by Christopher Peak | Dec 14, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (11)
Midway through the school year, top administrators are heading for the exits, leaving decades of institutional knowledge and morale concerns in their wake.
by Thomas Breen | Dec 14, 2018 7:42 am | Comments (22)
Top police forced a recruit with a history of domestic violence out of the academy after he lied about multiple drunken fights with his girlfriend and about brandishing a gun at a fight at a casino.
by Thomas Breen | Dec 13, 2018 3:22 pm | Comments (23)
A local mega-landlord continued buying the block on Sherman Avenue — leaving tenants wary about what comes next, and in some cases making plans to move as quickly as possible.
by Sam Gurwitt | Dec 13, 2018 12:31 pm | Comments (10)
Bright red sweaters and passion for social equity filled the Whitneyville Cultural Commons in Hamden Wednesday evening as local elected officials, members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, and community members discussed how to pursue the sorority’s ambitious legislative agenda.
by Thomas Breen | Dec 13, 2018 7:37 am | Comments (8)
Yale-New Haven Hospital has decided that Uber rides will help car-less New Haveners make it to a planned new Long Wharf primary care center more reliably than shuttles or (obviously) local buses.
by Markeshia Ricks | Dec 12, 2018 12:34 pm | Comments (7)
On the same day that a man was found guilty of killing another outside a methadone clinic in the Hill, residents meeting in the elementary school next door took sides on the value of having that clinic as a neighbor.
The debate got personal, on both sides.
by Christopher Peak | Dec 12, 2018 7:33 am | Comments (5)
The Street Outreach Worker program, a city-supported initiative aimed at saving young lives, is winding down at the New Haven Family Alliance. A bigger version might take its place at a new nonprofit seeking to expand gun-violence interventions to hospital emergency rooms across the state.
by Paul Bass, Allan Appel & Thomas Breen | Dec 11, 2018 3:17 pm | Comments (30)
The outgoing Malloy administration was at Union Station Tuesday putting plans for a new parking garage on a fast track, while the incoming Lamont administration signaled it wants to hear more from New Haveners calling to slow the construction train.
by Brian Slattery | Dec 11, 2018 12:57 pm | Comments (2)
Hot off the heels of winning a Latin Grammy for working with salsa star Victor Manuelle — and being nominated in four different categories — musician and producer Marcos Sánchez reflected back on his time growing up in New Haven, and going to Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School.
“That’s basically how I ended up doing what I’m doing,” Sánchez said, crediting in particular music teacher Patrick Smith. “He was disciplined but gave us space to create. Through him I discovered that I wanted to be a producer. He’s responsible for every little bit of success.”
by Christopher Peak | Dec 11, 2018 7:34 am | Comments (18)
The school superintendent wants New Haven to score higher on state measurements next year, moving its numbers up in comparison to other big cities and surrounding suburbs.
Amid protests, alders again put off civilian review board vote.
And other lessons from the CT Gay Men’s Chorus. 
From The State House, 
At Grand and Front. Driver flees; architect Patriquin promises repairs.
Back to drawing board for plans to build at Olive & Greene in Wooster Square.
Along the Q River.
@State House.
@Lyric Hall.
At the Ely Center. 
Thief seemed to know where to look.
@ Hill Central debate. The question: ““Should Middle School students learn a new language?”
Another preservationists’ nightmare looms, this time on Quinnipiac. 
