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An Energizer Bus-Stop Protest Keeps Going

by Melinda Tuhus | Jun 29, 2006 10:13 am | Comments (3)

On the eighth anniversary of the removal of five downtown bus stops, a group of New Haveners (some of whom are pictured at left) marked the occasion with a sit-in on the steps of City Hall. Several of the stops have been restored in the past two years, but not the one at Church and Chapel. These folks want it back, but the city administration has moved on —” to something better, it promises.

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Inspired to LEAP

by | Jun 6, 2006 3:42 pm | Comments (0)

“Everything in life is about energy. If we have enough positive energy, we can overcome any negative energy we may encounter,” said State Sen. Toni Harp as she helped to kick off the 15th annual summer training program for LEAP, a community-based literacy and recreation program that stands for ​“Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership” on Monday evening. And what positive energy they had.

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Message: We Care. Next?

by Staff | May 1, 2006 1:32 pm | Comments (0)


Hundreds of New Haveners were back in town Monday after traveling to D.C. to march against genocide in Darfur, Sudan. Allan Appel rode one of the buses and filed this report. Paul Bass returned both inspired and a bit confused about the message; click here for his report.

Hu: China Will Not “Copy Other Countries”

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 21, 2006 4:54 pm | Comments (0)

As human-rights protesters cried out down the street, Chinese President Hu Jintao told a New Haven audience that China’s political system is not going to change. He vowed peaceful international cooperation, especially with Yale: Hu invited 100 Yale students and faculty to visit his country this summer. ​“I know that many of our students and faculty will take this up with delight,” gushed Yale President Rick Levin, who hosted Hu.

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Red Flags Over New Haven

by Paul Bass | Apr 21, 2006 12:41 pm | Comments (8)

Red and yellow banners, dueling megaphones, meditators and marching band members turned downtown New Haven into a battleground of protest and response Friday as China’s president came to town. The confrontations brought to the surface the global debate underlying Yale’s decision to take the lead among Western universities in embracing the China Miracle.

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Welcome Aboard

by Melissa Bailey | Apr 21, 2006 8:16 am | Comments (2)

A quarantined S.U.V., three resignations and $600,000 in deficit: Welcome aboard, Amos Smith! Smith was appointed Thursday to the helm of the city’s biggest, most scandal-ridden, financially strapped anti-poverty group, The Community Action Agency.

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CAA Boots Another Chief

by Melissa Bailey | Mar 17, 2006 8:50 am | Comments (4)

In an emergency meeting Thursday night, the board of directors of New Haven’s scandal-ridden Community Action Agency decided not to renew the contract of the state-appointed interim director hired last year to steer the anti-poverty agency away from a history of bureaucratic unaccountability, corruption and political game-playing. ​“We’re in the middle of a transitional period and in that transition we’re looking to hire a permanent CEO in the next couple weeks,” said Darrell Brooks, president of the board (pictured, right), after the meeting.

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The Un-Sweet 16

by Tess Wheelwright | Mar 3, 2006 8:12 am | Comments (0)

Gay rights activists Leslie Cooper and Alphonso David (pictured) joined other gay rights activists from around the country in urging a New Haven audience to fight back against campaigns in 16 states to bar adoption by same-sex parents.

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Trash Talk

by Staff | Feb 20, 2006 8:33 am | Comments (0)

James Ward wasn’t trying to be cute. Yes, he knew he was wearing a cheeky slogan on his back when he started working the other day for the Yale recycling pick-up crew. And Ward, who’s 49, likes the slogan — he thinks it’s clever. But while the slogan may look spray-painted, it actually comes with the shirt, part of the official uniform. Does Ward really want people talking trash to him? Not really, he said. ​“It’s just a joke.”

Rell Unveils a “Bold” Plan

by Paul Bass | Feb 8, 2006 6:22 pm | Comments (3)

She didn’t talk about health care. She offered a small idea or two about fighting youth crime in cities. Instead, the Big Idea offered by Gov. Jodi Rell Wednesday as she launched her election-year budget was this: no more car taxes. New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon (top photo) said she’s concerned about supporting any tax cuts; New Haven Mayor John DeStefano (bottom photo) dismissed Rell’s plan as ​“a real cynical shell game.”

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The Gun That Won the West Ditches New Haven

by Paul Bass | Jan 17, 2006 12:51 pm | Comments (0)

The last 186 or so remaining workers at New Haven’s Winchester rifle plant are getting the pink slip. The Belgian owner of U.S. Repeating Arms Company (as the firm’s now called) informed the union that it plans to close the plant for good March 31. City officials scrambled Tuesday to come up with a plan to find the workers new jobs. They were also meeting with company officials before appearing at a 5 p.m. press conference. In its heyday the Winchester plant employed some 15,000 workers at its complex straddling the Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods, most of which has now become Science Park. The city offered repeated rounds of corporate welfare to keep the company in town — ultimately to no avail. Now, said mayoral spokesman Derek Slap, ​“We’re looking at three quarters of a million [dollars] that the city could possibly recoup” under terms of the company’s tax abatements. Click here to read a City Hall press release, which details all the government gimmes showered on this company.

Words—and Notes—Of Freedom

by Melinda Tuhus | Jan 16, 2006 8:12 am | Comments (0)


Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder and leader for three decades of the African American women’s a cappella group, Sweet Honey in the Rock, was not scheduled to sing when she appeared at Yale’s Sprague Hall Sunday night to deliver a talk in connection with the Peabody Museum’s weekend celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. But it is a performance space, so most in the small crowd who attended (small due to the ice storm) were hopeful they would hear her sing. And sing she did —” her absolutely clear, pure voice resonating through the acoustically perfect hall.

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Subway Strike’s Upper Reach

by Melinda Tuhus | Dec 20, 2005 11:53 am | Comments (0)


New Havener Mimi Chapnick was on the 7:51 a.m. Metro-North train today out of Union Station, heading to New York City. She works as a chiropractor in Manhattan, just a few blocks from where the train ride ends. ​“I’m lucky enough to just get out at Grand Central and walk — thank God,” she said. Others interviewed this morning also planned to walk to their destinations, which perhaps indicated that others who normally commute into the Big Apple had decided to telecommute or take the day off.