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DeStefano Blasts Wal-Mart

by Paul Bass | May 31, 2006 4:34 pm | Comments (3)

John DeStefano joined Wal-Mart worker Rosa Soto across the street—OK, way across the street—from the retail giant Wednesday to demand that it offer its workers better health care instead of sticking Connecticut with an annual $5.6 million bill.

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Hold The (Cell) Phone

by Melissa Bailey | May 31, 2006 2:51 pm | Comments (10)

Should aldermen get an extra $480 raise per year so they can be reachable on a cell phone? Dwight Alderwoman Joyce Chen (pictured) didn’t get a great reception on that first proposal in this tight tax year. So she took another tack.

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Message: We’re Safe

by Kara Arsenault | May 31, 2006 2:47 pm | Comments (1)

This week’s class at New Haven “Democracy School” starts with crime — and, for the Independent’s student/diarist, with marketing.

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City Honored as Employer of The Disabled

by | May 31, 2006 9:00 am | Comments (0)

The City of New Haven Tuesday received the National Employer of the Year Award from the Multiple Sclerosis Society in the category of 100 employees and over. After competing for the state award, which it won in October, the city advanced to the national level of competition, which it also won for “providing a variety of resources and accommodations to individuals diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.”

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Upgrade or Straitjacket?

by Melissa Bailey | May 31, 2006 8:35 am | Comments (0)

Would new ethics rules proposed by Alderman Jorge Perez (pictured at right) bring the city up to par with the state in the wake of the Rowland corruption scandals? Or would they be a “straitjacket” preventing aldermen from conducting business as usual?

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A Rose Blooms in Dixwell

by Melinda Tuhus | May 31, 2006 8:30 am | Comments (0)

These two officers and these two neighborhood boys weren’t part of the official dedication Tuesday afternoon of the Rose Center, which houses both the Yale Police Department and a vibrant community learning center. But they epitomize the new high in town-gown relations between New Haven and Yale University that the Rose Center represents in the Dixwell neighborhood.

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City Gets “Its Powers Back”

by Paul Bass | May 30, 2006 8:54 pm | Comments (3)

A legal victory for Morris Cove neighbors proved shortlived Tuesday, as the state’s highest court allowed the city to create a new zoning district to allow Anthony’s Ocean View to expand its catering business. “We got our zoning powers back,” said a pleased Tom Ude (pictured), City Hall’s top lawyer.

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“These Drugs Are Not Chocolate Ice Cream”

by Melissa Bailey | May 30, 2006 2:37 pm | Comments (1)

A Yale study that gave powerful antipsychotic drugs to adolescents failed to produce the meaningful results it sought. It did produce criticism over how the study’s controversial approach puts children at risk, and whether that risk is justified.

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Boulder Dash

by Gina Coggio | May 30, 2006 2:36 pm | Comments (3)

The Independent’s schoolteacher/ waitress diarist throws up, rests up, climbs some rocks, then wrestles with end-of-the-year 9th grade restlessness as she looks ahead to … Thailand?

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Trey Friendly

by Staff | May 30, 2006 10:43 am | Comments (0)

New Haven natives and James Hillhouse High School alums Troy Taylor, super producer & CEO of The Characters, and Carla Morrison, P.R. guru and CEO of Chit Chat Communications (far right), hang out at BED Restaurant in Atlanta with Canadian Fashion Model Naana Adju and R&B artist Trey Songz, whom Taylor produced as well as the Isley Brothers current album.

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