News From The Compost Heap
by | Mar 24, 2025 11:35 am | Comments (0)
(Opinion) Yogi Berra may or may not have famously said, “It’s deja vu all over again.”
Compost
News From The Compost Heap
by | Mar 17, 2025 1:56 pm | Comments (1)
Paul Bass Photo
Trophies assembled for the Compost Heap Indie awards.
(Opinion) Envelope, please.
News From The Compost Heap
by | Mar 10, 2025 11:56 am | Comments (4)
(Opinion) Some real estate maneuvers spark mystery. Others just reek of rip-offs.
News From The Compost Heap
by | Mar 3, 2025 1:14 pm | Comments (1)
(Opinion) Psst … wanna buy some cannabis … eggs?
News From The Compost Heap
by | Feb 24, 2025 11:10 am | Comments (0)
(Opinion) From movie madness to slumlord fails to dictators issuing bonkers decrees … sometimes it can feel like the world’s going bananas.
News From The Compost Heap
by | Feb 17, 2025 9:14 am | Comments (1)
(Opinion) Bathrooms on Orange Street. Bongs on East. Butterflies on Grand …
Is nowhere in New Haven safe?
News From The Compost Heap
by | Feb 10, 2025 9:39 am | Comments (5)
(Opinion) Who really wants to de-fund the police?
Compost Heap News: Zoning In
by | Feb 3, 2025 9:14 am | Comments (2)
(Opinion) The Trump administration has “flooded the zone.” From protecting immigrants and trans people to health care and municipal budgets, New Haven is on zone defense.
News From The Compost Heap
by | Jan 27, 2025 10:44 am | Comments (2)
(Opinion) New Haven got a cold, cold feeling this past week, followed by a determination to maintain warm hearts.
Elicker ≠ Trump
by | Jan 20, 2025 9:09 am | Comments (17)
(Opinion) — Despite what Yale students and other protesters insisted at City Hall, our mayor is not the same as our new president. Not even close.
News From The Compost Heap
by | Jan 10, 2025 11:12 am | Comments (2)
(Opinion) How about this New Haven T‑shirt slogan?: “We’re round and flat.” Decorated with New Haven-crafted frisbees, pizzas, burgers, clocks, and lollipops?
Tropical Storm Biden Drenches New Haven
by | Jul 26, 2024 11:01 am | Comments (0)
With greenbucks: The latest news from the compost heap.
News From The Compost Heap
by | Jul 10, 2024 2:36 pm | Comments (1)
Grrrr!!!
News From The Compost Heap -- Independence Day Edition
by | Jul 3, 2024 3:44 pm | Comments (1)
What freedoms and values are you celebrating this Independence Day?
Continue reading ‘News From The Compost Heap -- Independence Day Edition’
News From The Compost Heap
by | Dec 19, 2023 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
One step forward.
Merry Xmas Holiday Season Compost Heap News
by | Dec 4, 2023 2:01 pm | Comments (7)
The latest opinionated vlog news summary direct from the Independent assignment desk — er, compost heap …
Continue reading
‘Merry Xmas Holiday Season Compost Heap News’
Compost Heap News: Talking T(of)urkey
by | Nov 22, 2023 10:58 am | Comments (1)
From Loaves and Fishes to the state’s elections “enforcement” arm to New Haven’s voter-confusion complex, a lot of news has been cooking this Thanksgiving season.
Compost Headlines: Who Won This Week
by | Jun 16, 2023 12:43 pm | Comments (1)
Safe streeters, park preservers, taggers, and second chancers all claimed victory this week. Who, if anyone, lost?
Compost Headlines: No Easy A's
by | Jun 9, 2023 11:43 am | Comments (0)
Final year-end report cards are in — with a big “needs improvement” penciled in for Board of Ed members, state legislators, beat blasters, and micromobility-minded mayoral candidates.
Student Composters Canvass Cross Cafeteria
by | Jun 6, 2023 9:43 am | Comments (3)
Maya McFadden photo
Lila Kleppner: Not going to eat that? Into the compost it goes!
When Wilbur Cross High School senior Lila Kleppner saw a classmate walking toward the cafeteria trash bin, she leapt into action — with a five-gallon bucket in hand, intent on diverting that student’s food scraps from a landfill-bound pile to a community compost heap instead.
Continue reading ‘Student Composters Canvass Cross Cafeteria’
Compost Headlines: Outta Our Way
by | Jun 2, 2023 11:03 am | Comments (4)
New Haveners were hustling — or getting hustled — this week on Edgewood Avenue, Dixwell, Orange Street, and the Boulevard.
Compost Headlines: Home Heartlessness
by | May 26, 2023 10:32 am | Comments (3)
From Union Avenue to West Street, from Highland to Fitch, people needed to find new homes, for different reasons.
Compost Headlines: 1 Banana. 1 Gun
by | May 19, 2023 11:23 am | Comments (1)
(Opinion) New Haven did not solve America’s gun-violence program this week. Or our state’s trash crisis. Or food insecurity. Or income inequality or the corrosive influence of money in elections.
Compost Headlines: Gummies & Chips & Nips ...
by | May 12, 2023 11:31 am | Comments (2)
Add up the latest news about mini-booze bottles, cannabis snacks, and OTC tests … who’s coming out ahead?
Continue reading ‘Compost Headlines: Gummies & Chips & Nips ...’
Compost Headlines: Signs Of The Times
by | May 5, 2023 10:36 am | Comments (2)
The signs are changing on buildings from Dwight to Long Wharf to Fair Haven. Are they signs of changing times?