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Today’s Debates
Layoffs … Incident at City Hall … Andy Ross is mad … Audubon retail … Ward 19 crime… Marshals.
Melvin L. Daniels, 80
He had 25 grandkids. Obit here.
Immigrant Workers Win
Settlement at Outback: Story.
Why She Forgave Her Daughter’s Killers
Ranea al-Tikriti reports.
Residents Displaced
In Fair Haven fire: Details.
Retirement Party
For Chief Ortiz: details.
Danger: Hair Dye
Melinda Tuhus reports.
He Wants His Patronage Job Back
Marcia Chambers reports.
5 Teachers Honored
Release. Background story.
“ilike”?
Artists Shown “Doors”
LWT challenge. Release.
This Guy’s Good!
Check out Reg’s Ferrucci. (You need to wait a few minutes for him to show up; it’s worth it.)
Trophy On Display
Super Bowl, at SCSU Monday.
Freddie Takes Holiday
Fixer parade off; Kaempffer story.
Session Critiqued
Christine Stuart reports.
Candelaria Takes Stand
On judgeships. Release.
Heist Attempted
At check-cashing store. Details.
Stone Added
To Iraq cairn. Details.
Today’s Legal Notices
Here.
Walsh Bails
As his newspaper’s circulation tanks and its parent company goes broke, NH Register Publisher Kevin Walsh made it official: He’s leaving to take a top job with Yale-New Haven Hospital, whose board he served on and for which his editorials shilled. Details. Comment.
Anticlimactic End
Christine Stuart reports (here, here, here) on the legislative session’s midnight close.
Elm-Ivy Winners
Yale town-gown picks here.
Amber Alert Worked
5-year-old safe. Story.
Today’s Debates
Audubon retail … Newhallville’s fault? … Reading $$$ cut… Mayor Perez? … Budget thread…
The Secular & Divine
Father Jim’s latest from Ecuador.
Special Session?
Christine Stuart reports.
Chapel Smash
ECA Writers Honored
See Click Fix
New web tool to map neighborhood issues. Details.
Sins Spared
Open container bill delayed; casino smoking ban killed. Stuart reports here & here.
Anna Gets Her Money Back
by Melissa Bailey | May 9, 2008 3:04 PM | Comments (5)
This time, the road to Tony’s towing lot had a happy ending.
Who’s To Blame?
by Paul Bass | May 9, 2008 1:13 PM | Comments (3)
One’s a city Democrat. The other, a suburban Republican. The two state legislators went toe-to-toe on the question of whom to fault for the collapse of a reading program and other New Haven budget woes.
Mayor’s Favorite Marshal Rakes In $196K
by Melissa Bailey | May 9, 2008 9:52 AM | Comments (8)
“I’m the best,” boasted Peter Criscuolo, the marshal at the center of an ongoing towing scandal, as he filed his latest eye-popping income statement.
102 Layoffs Loom
by Paul Bass | May 8, 2008 5:22 PM | Comments (39)
(Updated 9:36 p.m.) City Hall now plans to start turning away some men from homeless shelters, kill an early-reading program, eliminate 160 positions, and close a senior center, three police substations, and the Dwight School in order to balance the coming year’s budget.
City Hall Confrontation Defused
by Paul Bass | May 8, 2008 2:53 PM | Comments (16)
Cops rushed to City Hall Thursday afternoon to subdue an “out of control” man allegedly yelling that he was “taking ‘em all out.”
The Cheese Was From Here
by Allan Appel | May 8, 2008 12:14 PM | Comments (1)
A top downtown chef served a menu full of local produce — as a fan prepared to convince others to do the same.
Now It’s a $14M Hole
by Melissa Bailey | May 8, 2008 7:47 AM | Comments (30)
Taxpayers and city workers stormed City Hall, as the New Haven’s budget hole blew up to $14.2 million and the aldermanic president dropped the L-word — layoffs.
Justice Should Trump Race
by Tom Ficklin | May 8, 2008 7:46 AM
The fissures along America’s racial divide, as seen through the reactions to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign: Click here to listen to a podcast commentary by New Haven’s Tom Ficklin (pictured).
City Seeks To Bike to Bronze
by Melinda Tuhus | May 7, 2008 12:41 PM | Comments (4)
After New Haven received only an honorable mention as a Bicycle Friendly Community, cycling advocates and the city’s transportation czar are brainstorming ways to improve the city’s chances next year.
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