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Fading memory: Yale faces Army on the grass.
Environmental concerns were not enough to stop Yale University’s plans to replace its natural grass football field with new synthetic turf.
by | Dec 18, 2018 3:24 pm | Comments (7)
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Slammed on Yale’s field: Will synthetic turf protect brains?
Yale wants to replace its natural grass football field with synthetic turf. That has the chair of the city’s Environmental Advisory Council nervous.
by | Nov 29, 2018 8:48 am | Comments (1)
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Priscilla Martel and life partner (and former business partner) Charles van Over at Wednesday evening’s event.
Supporters of Gateway Community College got a taste of French cooking from Connecticut’s Shoreline past, in the interest of a good cause.
by | Nov 14, 2018 1:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Russo: “Every day and every way Donald Trump is inspiring more and more women to run.”
At the end of a panel discussion about the #MeToo movement , audience member Kristen Sullivan stood up to thank the panelists for “little things” in her life that she believed were the result of other people coming forward with their stories.
Then she told her own story.
by | Oct 31, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (2)
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Yale cops protesting before deal was struck.
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Officer Martin Parker, outside polls, prepares community Halloween party.
While New Haven’s police force remains in arbitration over a new contract, Yale cops voted 67 – 2 Tuesday to ratify a long-awaited new pact with the university.
Continue reading ‘Yale Police Union Ratifies 7-Year Contract’
by | Oct 18, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (6)
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YPD Officer Joe Funaro, a negotiating committee member, turned to a vuvuzela to make his point at a protest.
It took 28 months and 74 bargaining sessions, but Yale’s police union has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
If the rank and file vote approval, the agreement will run seven years.
by | Oct 8, 2018 4:01 pm | Comments (10)
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Economist William Nordhaus addresses the press Monday after winning the Nobel Prize.
On a day when a new gloomy report emerged about the future of the planet, a ray of hope emerged in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Nobel Prize Winner Sees Hope On Climate Change’
by | Oct 8, 2018 7:35 am | Comments (0)
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Evelyn Gard sent in the following write-up.
Continue reading ‘Chapman, Klaus, Melton Enter Hall Of Fame’
by | Oct 3, 2018 1:40 pm | Comments (1)
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West Hills graffitied wall before and after.
The following was submitted by LCI Neighborhood Specialist Jillian Driscoll
Every fall, incoming freshman are expected to participate in a Day of Service at Southern Connecticut State University and this year about 200 fanned out over the city to make an impact.
by | Sep 28, 2018 7:54 am | Comments (2)
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On September 27, 2018, at 1202 hours I was dispatched to 101 Ashmun St. in response to a larceny complaint.
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FOCUS team member Haley Moller performs community service at Bregamos Community Theater.
Amid the throngs of Yalies filling downtown streets is a growing force of students who make it a priority to venture beyond the university bubble for active engagement and community service across the Elm City.
by | Sep 21, 2018 3:48 pm | Comments (6)
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New revelations about Brett Kavanaugh’s time at Yale as well as his conduct as a judge have mobilized law students at his alma mater to organize protests here in New Haven and in D.C. Monday against his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
by | Sep 6, 2018 12:28 pm | Comments (6)
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Yale cops picketing in front of Woosely Hall this spring.
After 27 months of bargaining with Yale University, the university’s police force is still without a contract. Both the university and the cops’ union president say progress has been made but a proposed change to retiree health care benefits could blow up the process by the end of the week.
by | Sep 3, 2018 9:55 am | Comments (0)
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The president of Gateway Community College has been named by the NAACP as one of the 100 Most Influential Blacks in Connecticut for 2018.
by | Aug 17, 2018 12:00 pm | Comments (9)
Emily Lira with her new favorite mascot, the UConn Husky.
Born in New Haven to a family who came here from Mexico, Emily Lira took an AP psych course at Co-Op High School and was hooked. A month from now she’ll be majoring in the subject at University of Connecituct on a full-ride scholarship, the first person in her family ever to go to college.
Cameron Treichel remembers a speaker coming to his middle school classroom and telling him if he does well academically, performs community service, and stays out of trouble, he’d be eligible for a scholarship to help send him to college.
He took all that to heart, especially the community service of which he estimates he tallied one thousand hours while a student at the Sound School. Now he’s headed to UConn, buoyed by a generous financial aid package, as he launches on his journey into computer science.
Continue reading ‘New Haven Promise Celebrates 356 New Scholars’
by | Jul 18, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (1)
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Attorneys: A precedent’s been set for reuniting migrant kids with their parents.
Immigration lawyers don’t need to wait for an uncertain remedy out of a California court to reunite undocumented families separated at the border. Instead, they now have a model in Connecticut for proving that migrant children’s trauma needs to be addressed immediately.
Continue reading ‘Lawyers: Immigration Win Offers Nationwide Model’
by | Jul 11, 2018 3:40 pm | Comments (7)
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Public Health Dean Vermund.
A day after Sten Vermund felt “kicked in the gut,” he found himself talking about a new opportunity to fight back.
The kick came from the news that the U.S. government used its influence to water down and almost derail a World Health Assembly resolution calling on countries to recognize that breast milk is the healthiest beverage for children and to limit misleading marketing of infant formula.
Continue reading ‘Breast Milk Block Inspires Call To Action’
by | Jul 6, 2018 8:42 am | Comments (14)
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Aviva Luria of Madison protests the Trump immigration policy, at Friday’s Yale Law event.
(Updated) A 9‑year-old boy from Honduras and a 14-year-old girl from El Salvador are suing the federal government after being separated from their parents at the U.S. border and then transported Connecticut.
Continue reading ‘Legal Aid, Yale Law Sue Feds Over Immigrant Children’
by | Jun 25, 2018 5:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Abromaitis, Wallack and Camille at Monday’s announcement.
Kyle Wallack, the newly named head coach of Albertus Magnus’s soon-to-launch first-ever men’s hockey team, has a daunting task ahead of him: recruiting 30 players to the NCAA Division III team. So Wallack plans to put his extensive network to use to help him get Division I players to “slip through the cracks.”
by | Jun 14, 2018 6:51 pm | Comments (9)
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Pols and school officials kickoff the construction of the future Barack H. Obama University Magnet School.
Kindergartener Luis Castillo addresses the crowd while Principal Susan DeNicola holds the mic.
With a shout of “Yes we can!” and the toss of some dirt, politicians and city officials launched the building of what will be the Barack H. Obama Magnet University School on the Southern Connecticut State University campus.
by | Jun 11, 2018 8:26 am | Comments (24)
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2015 rally challenges how Yale spends endowment returns.
Mark Greenberg has an idea for how to pump more tax money into cities while spending less, not more, state money: Tax big universities and hospitals.
by | Jun 11, 2018 7:54 am | Comments (2)
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The volunteer table Sunday evening.
One hundred ninety-nine high-achieving New Haven public high school seniors received scholarships to pursue secondary education Sunday evening at an awards ceremony held at Hill Regional Career High School.
Continue reading ‘Scholarship Fund Gives $270K To 199 Seniors’
by | May 24, 2018 2:54 pm | Comments (2)
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Fonda, DeLeon, and Rodriguez, who is still in the Marine Corps reserve and therefore wears his uniform to the ceremonies.
Marine and Army combat vets Mike Fonda, Jonathan DeLeon Lopez, and Jonathan Rodriguez helped lead the procession of graduates to receive their degrees at the 26th annual commencement exercises of Gateway Community College.
by | May 24, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (0)
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Bolton receives congratulations from State. Rep. Toni Walker and The WorkPlace COO Adrienne Dean-Parkmond Thursday.
The empty seats of the people who missed the graduation for the “best reason in the world,” said The WorkPlace President & CEO Joe Carbone. They had to work.
Rochelle Bolton has been unemployed since July 10, 2017. Thanks to a program that helps those experiencing long-term unemployment get back to work, she’s confident that she’ll be employed again soon.
by | May 20, 2018 6:26 pm | Comments (31)
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Hillary Clinton delivers the commencement address to Yale undergrads on Sunday.
Despite the Trump administration’s corruption, lies and attacks on the rule of law, Hillary Clinton is filled with hope for the country’s future — more now, she said, than even when Obama took office a decade ago.