by Christopher Peak | Apr 20, 2018 1:09 pm | Comments (12)
A young mom vacated a Fair Haven apartment where flaking lead paint poisoned her 3-year-old. Then she found out that her new apartment across the river in Fair Haven Heights is also covered with the heavy metal, and her child is at risk again.
by Thomas Breen | Apr 20, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (24)
The city’s pension funds should have over $1 billion in the bank.
They have under $500 million.
That’s a problem. How to fix it?
by Christopher Peak | Apr 19, 2018 9:08 pm | Comments (10)
Federal immigration authorities showed up at New Haven’s state courthouse on Elm Street Thursday to grab a convicted statutory rapist, petrifying other undocumented immigrants trying to resolve their own cases.
Continue reading ‘ICE Lies In Wait At Elm Street Courthouse’
by Paul Bass | Apr 19, 2018 4:33 pm | Comments (13)
New Haven has hundreds of new apartments that most people can’t afford to rent? Not to worry — other rents may go down as a result. And no one’s being displaced.
An out-of-town company bought a local factory and is sending its workforce to Meriden? Not to worry — the workers will keep their jobs, and a new owner will bring more jobs than before the local factory.
by Markeshia Ricks | Apr 19, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (21)
It happened to State Rep. Robyn Porter in New Haven when she first became a legislator. An officer subtly accused her of having stolen her legislative license plates.
by Thomas Breen | Apr 18, 2018 3:39 pm | Comments (21)
The city’s building department found two unsafe buildings and one illegal appartment conversion at properties controlled by two of New Haven’s biggest landlords.
by Christopher Peak | Apr 18, 2018 1:28 pm | Comments (4)
During a recent lockdown drill, a classroom of New Haven students took the threat of an active shooter so seriously that they told the teacher to get out of the way and started barricading the door.
by Thomas Breen | Apr 18, 2018 8:48 am | Comments (3)
One spoke of how his grandfather worked as a machinist for three decades at Winchester Arms. Another recalled being voted “most respected on either side of the aisle” in the legislature. A third boasted that his financial resume makes him the best state treasurer candidate — in history.
by Thomas Breen | Apr 17, 2018 3:35 pm | Comments (25)
The owner of an historic Dwight Street home that has sat empty and derelict for two years has teamed up with a local architectural designer and historian to restore the property to its architectural roots.
by Mercy Quaye | Apr 17, 2018 1:15 pm | Comments (2)
I was 10, maybe 11 when I got my first Vigorol Liquid Relaxer.
For most Black girls before Y2K this was a right of passage and a privilege. In hindsight I can’t fully wrap my head around why: It’s like we were all lining and signing up for the risk of chemical burns in exchange for a weak guarantee of straight hair. And at the age of 11, that cost-benefit analysis didn’t add up for me.
by Markeshia Ricks | Apr 17, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (23)
Drawing on her own story as a working single mother who ascended to the middle class, the co-chair of the Black & Hispanic Caucus called out slumlords and put high-end developers on notice that affordable housing needs to be part of their plans for the Elm City.
Continue reading ‘Colon Slams Slumlords, Praises Hill Model’
Lawyer for Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown families keynotes local NAACP criminal justice summit.
As state Republicans, Dems duel over the budget. 
And what if a Republican becomes governor?
At annual Community Foundation “convening.”
An NPR contest inspires local musician to aim high. 
Victory for Porter. 
Red Cross, NHFD team up to distribute free detectors citywide.
Powder House Day to awaken spring on the Green.
Haley’s Comment. 
Little Robots.
Alder Winter pays follow-up call at Goffe Street’s St. Martin’s Townhouses.
Way cleared for DeLauro’s renomination.
From budget-strapped state, at New Haven Day At The Capitol.
Shubert unveils 2018-9 season with “revolution tartlets.”
Duncan, union alders compromise on proposal for moratorium on boarding-house conversions.
Plan would drive downtown Derby redevelopment.