Tropical Storm Biden Drenches New Haven
by | Jul 26, 2024 11:01 am | Comments (0)
With greenbucks: The latest news from the compost heap.
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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?
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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 …
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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)
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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.
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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?
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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?
Compost Headlines: Hot (Stolen?) News
by | Apr 28, 2023 4:02 pm | Comments (3)
(Opinion) Psst, over here … Looking for some cheap, quick stories?
Compost Headlines: Numbers Add Up?
by | Apr 21, 2023 11:00 am | Comments (0)
(Opinion) (# smoke shops) ÷ (# blocks) x ((# homicide arrests)! ÷ ( # months)) = (# luxury “market-rate” apartments)² + ((# lost ash trees — # guv-promised plantings)) = … progress?
Schools Leaders Eye Compost Rollout
by | Apr 19, 2023 9:11 am | Comments (11)
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A Peels & Wheels bin-full of compost: Coming soon to NHPS?
As New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) searches for a new food service director, the district is also looking to make some sustainability-centered changes to how it handles what doesn’t get eaten — including by introducing school-based composting programs.
Compost Headlines: It's Funny Money, Honey
by | Apr 14, 2023 12:25 pm | Comments (0)
(Opinion) A 50-cent eviction, $1,000 campaign checks, and proposed $3,000 politician raises were in the news this week …
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Compost Headlines: No Fare
by | Mar 31, 2023 9:57 am | Comments (7)
(Opinion) Fare-recharged buses and crowded airplanes are in the news this week, along with one quashed and one live political experiment — all in the search of the most direct routes to a better society.
Compost Headlines: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
by | Mar 24, 2023 1:09 pm | Comments (1)
(Opinion) A new schools superintendent, a new Cafe 9 owner, new cops, new charter … reasons to worry?
Compost Headlines: Trust Fails
by | Mar 17, 2023 1:17 pm | Comments (1)
(Opinion) Can we count on our banks, our government, our corporate print media to tell us the truth?
The Week That Wasn't
by | Mar 3, 2023 4:30 pm | Comments (3)
(Opinion) From a city budget drop to a snowfall, from decisions in Hartford to split-second decisions in the Hill, what didn’t happen mattered as much as what did happen.
Compost Headlines: Please Hold
by | Feb 24, 2023 12:49 pm | Comments (6)
(Opinion) A question arose from state electric rate-hike hearings, from the sales price of a prime commercial lot, and from a rent-cap debate: Who’s turning the screws on whom?
Compost Headlines: Unidentified Flying Peanuts
by | Feb 17, 2023 11:41 am | Comments (5)
(Opinion) Heads up: A murder arrest, a cry from parks volunteers, and the unveiling of a legume-shaped traffic roundabout this past week represented reasons for continuing to try to make our city better — and to be open to changing our minds about the best approaches.
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Compost Headlines: Who Nailed It
by | Feb 10, 2023 1:16 pm | Comments (1)
White House, NHI, CT Mirror Photos
"State of" presenters this week: Biden, Elicker, Lamont, Redemption.
(Opinion) From D.C. to City Hall to an Audubon Street gallery, it was The State of Everything Everywhere All At Once Week.