by Thomas Breen | Nov 13, 2018 9:23 pm | Comments (2)
Cue up the concerts: The College Street Music Hall’s proposal to open a new mid-sized music venue emerged victorious in a months-long bid to fill a vacant downtown commercial space.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 13, 2018 3:27 pm | Comments (1)
More school dollars and faster New Haven-New York trains were at the topic of the agenda Tuesday at the first face-to-face meeting between big-city mayors and Gov.-Elect Ned Lamont.
by Christopher Peak | Nov 13, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (21)
School board members recommended paying consultants over $15,000 to facilitate their next Board of Education retreat — right before another consultant reported that the district is still facing an $8.89 million deficit this fiscal year.
by Paul Bass | Nov 13, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (9)
“Team Porter” navigated a newish app to turn out suburban votes. Now Connecticut might get paid family leave, a $15 hourly minimum wage — and maybe even electronic highway tolls.
by Lary Bloom | Nov 12, 2018 8:06 am | Comments (4)
A half century ago, I wore a uniform of a different hue. The jungle fatigues and cap were manufactured in only one color, olive drab, which the military still refers to, drably, as Color 107. Unofficially, it was the shade of derision during and after America’s most divisive foreign war.
by Paul Bass | Nov 9, 2018 1:55 pm | Comments (20)
As darkness fell on New Haven Thursday night, citizens rallied on the Green against perceived threats to democracy in the wake of this week’s election.
A block away, in a locked basement bunker in the 200 Orange St. municipal office building with the door window papered over, the election wasn’t over yet.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 9, 2018 1:00 pm | Comments (25)
“What’s going to happen to the neighborhood?” Ralph Marcarelli asked. “What’s going to happen to the church?”
by Christopher Peak | Nov 9, 2018 7:34 am | Comments (16)
A high-school teacher threw a pencil-sized stick of wood across a classroom, hitting a talkative student’s hand.
A fireable offense?
Superintendent Carol Birks thought so. The Board of Education disagreed.
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio | Nov 8, 2018 12:59 pm
For the past year I have spent countless hours with a New Haven family that seems brought forth by the pages of a Hollywood sitcom, so all-American and wholesome it’s hard to believe they’re not Cold War propaganda. They love each other so ferociously, spend every hour together so joyously, and like each other so genuinely that young people in the community flock to them for a sense of family.
Being around them has provided me so much comfort and genuine joy that my real family has become jealous. You’re about to note the bizarre irony of their jealousy.
The Pinos family is fighting a deportation order that threatens to break their family apart. Many New Haven families have been faced with deportation orders. But here too the Pinos family is unlike the rest.
by Sonya Schoenberger | Nov 8, 2018 12:10 pm | Comments (2)
The starting bid at auction—$30,487.39—was well below the Clinton Avenue home’s appraised value: $142,000.
One determined bidder would quickly close that gap.
by Markeshia Ricks | Nov 8, 2018 8:45 am | Comments (14)
Westville neighbors went looking for solutions to a recent uptick in crime in the neighborhood. They found them by picking each other’s brains instead of their pockets.
by Thomas Breen | Nov 7, 2018 3:00 pm | Comments (4)
When New Haveners like Ann Robinson produced a 20,000-plus victory margin Tuesday to elect Connecticut’s next governor, they weren’t thinking as much about Ned Lamont. They were thinking about Donald Trump.
And in Robinson’s case, about Greenville, N.C.
by Paul Bass | Nov 7, 2018 2:58 pm | Comments (25)
Hours after most Connecticut communities had reported their election results, New Haven’s leading voting official arrived at Edgewood School by 1:30 a.m. Wednesday with a team of election workers and began counting 1,968 ballots. By hand.
by Paul Bass, Markeshia Ricks, Allan Appel, & Jake Dressler | Nov 7, 2018 12:07 am | Comments (21)
Double breakdowns in New Haven’s elections Tuesday have thrown the city’s vote-count into chaos — and prompted Republican gubernatorial Bob Stefanowski to go to court to segregate some of the city’s ballots.
by Christopher Peak | Nov 6, 2018 11:45 pm | Comments (4)
As 64 New Haveners cast controversial votes after 8 p.m. Tuesday, a Republican attorney was on hand taking their photos and preparing an affidavit.
After New Haven trashed the original design, state unveils a new plan for 2nd Union Station garage.
Supports 5-year charter renewal; state to make final decision.
After Ansonia State Senate recount. Recounts in the race continue Wednesday.
After 55 years teaching at Neighborhood Music School. 
Five years after referendum, alders try again to craft an oversight ordinance.
Along with state corrections, public safety directors. 
And New Haven listens, @Bregamos. 
Taxpayers made whole.
Teddi Glover was a former alderwoman, a child care pioneer, and a lifelong Newhallville activist and public servant: 
Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Bahá’í voices converge on the Green.
Stefan Christensen, Weeping Bong Band, Nathan Bowles Trio linger in prolonged meditation.
“Cosmic American music” journeyman William Tyler and hyper-prolific garage-savant Ty Segall kill it at Space Ballroom acoustic double bill.
