by Paul Bass & Thomas Breen | Jul 19, 2018 2:33 pm | Comments (7)
Bitsie Clark spent decades chasing a dream. On Thursday morning she grabbed a shovel to help celebrate the dream coming true.
by Christopher Peak | Jul 19, 2018 8:37 am | Comments (14)
Never mind, part-timers, you’ll get your jobs back.
For now.
But check your mailboxes again next month.
by Markeshia Ricks | Jul 19, 2018 8:14 am | Comments (16)
After a detailed explanation of how it works and how it protects children’s rights, a Yale University research project connected to the genetic testing of some students is back in good standing with at least two members of the Board of Education.
by Thomas Breen | Jul 18, 2018 4:29 pm | Comments (11)
Owners of the former Church Street South apartment complex won a 20 percent tax cut after a judge agreed that the city assessor had overvalued the crumbling property.
by Thomas Breen and Paul Bass | Jul 18, 2018 2:07 pm | Comments (13)
Mayor Toni Harp vowed to fight the Board of Alders — “perhaps” even taking it to court — if it proceeds with plans to strip $483,172 from city departments to reduce the new 11 percent tax increase.
by Markeshia Ricks | Jul 18, 2018 8:45 am | Comments (19)
Three major annual city events owe a combined almost $700,000 for police services provided over the last four years. Alders want organizers to pay up.
But first the city might have to overhaul a system that allows past due bills to fall through the cracks.
by Markeshia Ricks | Jul 17, 2018 4:44 pm | Comments (32)
The former Farnam Courts public housing development has traded its dilapidated townhouses for high-rise living, a new name, and views of the Q Bridge and East Rock that rival some of the fanciest digs downtown.
by Thomas Breen | Jul 17, 2018 1:43 pm
The city’s Health Department has found lead paint hazards at three different city apartments, all of which currently house children with elevated blood lead levels.
by Paul Bass | Jul 16, 2018 10:45 pm | Comments (18)
New Haven has decided that rather than seek a Hartford-style state bailout to balance its books, it will refinance its debt again.
Continue reading ‘City Will Refinance Debt To Avoid Takeover’
by Thomas Breen, Paul Bass & Christine Stuart | Jul 16, 2018 12:32 pm | Comments (20)
Updated—In response to a landmark ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Victor Bolden, two immigrant children being held in Connecticut will be reunited with their parents.
The federal government agreed to release the parents from a detention facility in Texas, where they had been separated from their children under a short-lived Trump administration border crackdown on undocumented families.
by Paul Bass | Jul 15, 2018 5:16 pm | Comments (6)
Marcia Chambers, a barrier-breaking New York Times reporter who combined keen instinct with deep intellect and who went on to found and edit the online Branford Eagle, died Friday night at Smilow Cancer Hospital.
by Christopher Peak | Jul 13, 2018 1:52 pm | Comments (11)
An entire neighborhood could soon have a new owner.
by Paul Bass | Jul 13, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (18)
Asked how much a gallon milk costs, Ned Lamont hesitated, then raised three fingers.
“Three dollars,” he said — then resumed tussling with Joe Ganim over who best understands and can fight for “vulnerable” and middle-class families.
by Thomas Breen | Jul 12, 2018 4:57 pm | Comments (14)
More vegetables. Less cheese. And more take out.
Jason Sobocinski is banking on that formula as he prepares to close his popular decade-old Trumbull Street restaurant and fromagerie Caseus and reopen under a new name, ownership, and menu.
by Christopher Peak | Jul 12, 2018 2:40 pm | Comments (27)
By not posting completed agendas on time and whispering to each other during meetings, a school board committee violated the state’s open meetings law, concludes a preliminary state open-government opinion.
Competition expected to be hot for Crown Garage performance space.
City Plan votes to recommend $4.1M fed application; Mattison cautions health dept.
But they vow to get 299-apartment mixed-use project on Union St. done in 2020.
48 Hour Project screens best local films of 2017.
• Public-financing arrives just in time for primary. 
Builder says new State St. apartment complex will aim for mid-market, include 4-bedrooms.
In 7 panels.
Alasdair Neale launches “listening tour.” 
On new album.
Cassidie was a longtime St. Luke’s Episcopal parishioner who retired from Yale-New Haven Hospital.: 
About cameras, reporters & “stop resisting” cop thuggery. 
Laura Wolf throws Cafe Nine for a loop. And then some.
For depleted medical insurance fund.
