The Spring Glen third space — which has morphed over the years from a cool spot to seek out the most eclectic videotapes to a beloved gathering place where performances, speakers, and other live events happen alongside rows and rows of films that are old and new (and yes, there are still some videotapes) — has launched a fundraising campaign to keep the nonprofit afloat and sailing into its future.
Rendering of proposed addition, as viewed from Linden.
A group of East Rock neighbors are raising a stink about Atticus Market’s plan to tack on a new 600-square foot structure to the grocery and convenience store to make way for another bathroom.
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Terri Ricks (in red), with Mark Griffin (right), thanks Mandy's Ari Hoffman and Sara Bigman and pushes for them to encourage other management companies to enact similar policies.
After settling a tenant-discrimination case that changed how Mandy Management approaches renters with criminal histories, Mark Griffin is ready to take his fair-housing fight to the state legislature — as he also awaits a full pardon for his decades-old misdemeanor conviction.
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Applicant Villanueva: Spot is a "gold mine"
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Landlord Marty Halprin: Time to look for another potential tenant.
A new smoke shop won’t be able to open up next to a methadone clinic and a strip club — after city zoners stamped out the latest bid to convert a vacant storefront into a tobacco sales “gold mine.”
Typhanie Jackson: "There are some places where we have had some gaps."
High burnout rates, low pay, and insufficient state funding have led to an untenable shortage of special education staff in New Haven public schools.
School employees and parents conveyed that message to Education Committee alders — calling attention to lapsed services for some of the city’s highest-needs students.
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City climate czar Winter: "It's maddening."
Ask Steve Winter how many times a day he’s checked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant funds portal since Jan. 21 and he answers with a wry laugh: “I couldn’t even say.”
Jan. 21 — one day into the Trump administration — he received a notification that the $20 million Community Change grant the City of New Haven had won, in partnership with a coalition of local groups, would be available for use.
Mandy CEO Gurevitch: Transparency benefits landlords and tenants.
One of the city’s largest landlords has settled a tenant-discrimination case by agreeing to adopt a formal policy detailing which criminal convictions it will and won’t consider before signing a lease with a prospective renter.
Blatteau: "If we can't be safe in our buildings, what else matters here?"
(Updated) The president of the city’s teachers union has filed a state workplace safety complaint against the public school district for persistent problems with mold, leaks, air quality, and other conditions concerns at New Haven’s two largest high schools.
Author Josaphat: The Panther story needed a novelist's eye.
Kingdom of No Tomorrow By Fabienne Josaphat Algonquin Books/Hatchette
Nettie Boileau had choices to make.
Should she sign up with the revolution taking shape in Oakland, the way her father fought back against Papa Doc in Haiti? Or should she pursue her dreams of becoming a doctor?
Which lover should she make a life with? Clia, who brought her into the Black Panther Party? Or Melvin, the magnetic rising party leader?
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DeLauro takes on another leadership role.
(Washington) Rep. Rosa DeLauro has been in the forefront of Democratic efforts to push back against President Donald Trump, and on Monday she got a new title to reinforce her role.
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Khaki-clad fascists on State St.
Never Ending Books' Sunday night post.
A group of neo-Nazis showed up on State Street Saturday night.
Their destination: Never Ending Books, the long-running free bookstore, arts and nonprofit community space. Whatever the purpose of their visit was, it was met with a larger gathering of Never Ending Books supporters, and a police intervention.
AG Tong (left): “Let us commit to each other as we run.”
Sasha Watson (center) and her family at Sunday's run.
Five-year-old Tristan Jones stood beside his dad and grandmother and held his rainbow-emblazoned sign high: “I am the descendant of immigrants! I love mom! Go moms!”
His mom, Sasha Watson, was one of more than 3,400 people who registered for Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS)’s annual five-kilometer Run for Refugees, which raised more than $145,000. Around 2,500 runners took off from Wilbur Cross High School at noon on Sunday — undeterred by the four inches of snow from the storm the night before.
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Elicker: "Trump is trying to punish those who disagree and coerce local authorities... into carrying out his agenda."
New Haven has teamed up with San Francisco and Portland to sue the Trump administration in order to protect its status as a “welcoming city” for undocumented immigrants.
