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| Mar 14, 2024 12:30 pm |Emma Gill’s severed foot and severed head washed up on a beach. Three boys stumbled across them.
That was in 1898. Might new such discoveries loom as a new era of abortion prohibition looms?
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(Updated with official final results) A slate of insurgents raised issues — then ended up losing all their races Tuesday — in the city’s first competitive Democratic ward co-chair primaries in over a decade.
A growing New Haven biopharma company won “fast-track” federal review for a drug it’s developing to fight breast cancer.
Meanwhile it administered the first human test dose of another drug it has under development, to tackle neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
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| Jan 24, 2024 12:12 pm |New Year’s/Inauguration Day
Twenty Twenty-Four
Boring speeches
Left us snoring
Like captives wilting
In the auditorium
For an hour. Plus an hour
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| Jan 18, 2024 11:23 am |Don’t listen to the new single from the Afro-Semitic Experience if you wish to remain mired in despair over the state of the world or the harshness dividing groups of people.
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Stephanie Thomas said she was “as shocked as everybody else” when she saw a video of a Bridgeport campaign worker allegedly hauling stacks of harvested absentee ballots into a drop box.
Joshua Elliott can see legal magic mushrooms for sale and ranked-choice ballots materializing in the distance.
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| Dec 19, 2023 4:35 pm |Candidates who ran for mayor under New Haven’s public-financing system raised 90 percent of their money from New Haveners, 28 percent more than clean-elections-defying rivals.
They also raised more local donations: over 47,000 (totaling over $4 million) from 2011 – 2023 versus some 16,000 donations worth $2.6 million for nonparticipants.
Those metrics emerge from a newly released study of the New Haven Democracy Fund, which has administered the city’s public-financing program since its 2007 inception.
In the wake of a state-spawned controversy over the reporting of New Haven marriages to federal immigration authorities, Gov. Ned Lamont declared that no “bureaucrat” should single out couples for discriminatory treatment because of their race, ethnicity, or nation of origin.
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| Dec 6, 2023 11:00 am |Attention LCI: Expect to hear from Brittiany Mabery-Niblack and Theresa Morant starting next month.
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| Dec 1, 2023 9:36 am |Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) What record store used to occupy part of the former York Square Cinemas building that Yale just bought at 57 – 9 Broadway?
A) Cutler’s Records & Tapes
B) Vinyl-torium
C) Group W Bench
D) Rhymes Records
E) Elm City Sounds
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| Nov 29, 2023 2:09 pm |Three of New Haven’s alders-elect with Fair Haven connections said they’re pumped to get to work as part of a community “team” that tackles safe streets, affordable housing, and small business growth.
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| Nov 28, 2023 3:49 pm |The Rev. Bonita Grubbs has more big plans for Christian Community Action, the anti-poverty agency she runs.
She concluded that it’s time for someone else to put them into practice.
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| Nov 27, 2023 11:48 am |Running a $12 million-a-year nonprofit with 138 staffers helping resettle 1,000 refugees a year is a big enough challenge.
Add to that inheriting the helm of such an effort from a person who made all that possible over 18 years.
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| Nov 27, 2023 11:40 am |Some 86,000 jobs are going begging in Connecticut, many of them paying a living wage and not requiring a college degree. Thousands of people without college degrees need those jobs. So put those people in the jobs — simple, right?
Not so simple.
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| Nov 16, 2023 5:18 pm |The 5,591 miles separating New Haven and Tel Aviv got a lot farther since Oct. 7 for Tzippy Shmilovitz.
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| Nov 16, 2023 11:47 am |By day Steve Mednick has been helping cities rewrite their constitutions. By night he has been writing songs about the storms in our political universe.
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| Nov 8, 2023 12:23 pm |Dr. Jonathan Q. Berryman isn’t lamenting how technology has changed our world. Instead he’s harnessing it to help young people find their voices in the choir.
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| Nov 3, 2023 10:36 am |Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1. The city has issued cease-and-desist orders against the Amistad Catholic Worker House for its construction of 60-to-100-square-foot huts for the homeless in its backyard. What has been Amistad’s Mark Colville’s response to the orders?
A. He’ll take the shelters down
B. He’ll cease but not desist
C. He’ll desist but not cease
D. He’ll keep them up
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| Oct 27, 2023 9:57 am |Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story along with links to relevant news stories from the past week.
1) What existential issue is motivating the most visible opponent of the New Haven charter reform referendum on the Nov. 7 ballot?
A) 4‑year mayoral terms
B) fiscal solvency
C) lifetime appointments to the volunteer Board of Park Commissioners
D) lifetime prison sentences for nonviolent drug offenders
E) chartered airplane flights to Las Vegas
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| Oct 24, 2023 3:28 pm |Rafael Ramos grabbed a Swiffer and a damp rag and hit the streets this week, to help save the lives of the youngest New Haveners.
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| Oct 17, 2023 4:02 pm |Dada Shambhushivananda looks at the wars and ecological disasters ravaging the planet, and sees a need for human beings to change our way of thinking.
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| Oct 4, 2023 8:25 am |Connecticut environmentalists are waging a years-long quest to convince voters to pass an ERA — and not your mother’s ERA.
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| Sep 28, 2023 3:04 pm |Three grown men who literally fight fires and crimes for a living received surprise plaques Thursday for helping try to put out a metaphorical fire — young people entering adulthood in challenging times with no path to productive careers.