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Westville Alder Adam Marchand and challenger Dennis Serfilippi.
Are the Yale’s unions a force for political engagement or obfuscation? Economic uplift or conflicts of interest?
Does the social media app NextDoor promote civic debate and neighborly communication? Or racism and paranoid fear-mongering?
by | Oct 28, 2019 1:06 pm | Comments (13)
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Matt DeRienzo.
Hearst Media Monday fired the top editor of its eight Connecticut dailies, including the New Haven Register.
by | Oct 23, 2019 2:46 pm | Comments (2)
Matt Lieberman’s daughter’s boyfriend passed the test: He supports the right to abortion and an assault-weapons ban and opposes voter suppression,
by | Oct 17, 2019 3:18 pm | Comments (7)
The New Haven Register has joined the quest for readers willing to pay for online news — and added a twist.
Continue reading ‘Register Goes “Inside(r)” To Make News Pay’
by | Oct 14, 2019 8:55 am | Comments (26)
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SeeClickFix founder and director Ben Berkowitz.
A Kansas-based “gov tech” business has purchased New Haven’s homegrown, internationally adopted problem-solving company —which only plans to stay, and grow, in the Elm City, according to its local founder and director.
by | Oct 11, 2019 1:15 pm | Comments (12)
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If you have kids in a New Haven Public School, you probably get a lot of phone calls from Daniel Diaz.
The kids, at least, are often happy when he calls.
by | Sep 5, 2019 1:35 pm | Comments (1)
After weeks of blistering campaign-mailer attacks on his opponent, mayoral candidate Justin Elicker shifted to a warm and fuzzy education message in a home-stretch TV ad.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Pivots Positive, Wins Public Works Endorsement’
by | Jun 11, 2019 2:28 pm | Comments (5)
Marjorie Bonadies waded into the toxic waters of the Nextdoor social-media site — and, she said, ended up accidentally pressing a button she didn’t mean to.
by | Jun 4, 2019 12:09 pm | Comments (3)
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Ruiz and Ahmad Monday night with Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola..
Lifelong New Haven residents William Ruiz and Abdul Ahmad hope to increase transparent communication between local voters and their elected officials. On Monday evening, they pitched a tool for making that happen to members of the Board of Alders.
Continue reading ‘Alders Pitched On “LinkedIn For Politicians”’
by | May 23, 2019 12:41 pm | Comments (0)
What is a city without its newspaper? Connecticut Conference of Municipalities tried to find an answer for that question on this week’s episode of WNHH FM’s “The Municipal Voice.”
by | May 10, 2019 1:00 pm | Comments (2)
Press freedom in Connecticut took a step forward this week along with a step back.
Continue reading ‘Cops Cuff Reporter; Reporter Slaps Down SLAPP’
by | May 7, 2019 11:52 am | Comments (0)
The privacy Mark Zuckerberg is promising Facebook users could prove a nightmare for child-trafficking victims — unless he follows some practical tips from New Haven-based Love 146.
by | Apr 5, 2019 7:37 am | Comments (2)
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Tzipi Shmilovitz at WNHH FM.
Tzipi Shmilovitz noticed something about how people in the U.S. think about the war their government has waged for decades: They don’t.
by | Mar 27, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (2)
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Underwriters, lawyers, finance analysts, alders review bonds one more time, before the August sale.
The Society for Advancing Business Editing & Writing has recognized New Haven Independent reporter Christopher Peak for getting the “scoop” on municipal debt.
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Road trip to her favorite annual music festival.
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Rebecca Turcio.
Rebecca Turcio, who championed the cause of one of New Haven’s littlest-noticed neighborhoods and emerged as one of the first and most passionate humane local grassroots voices of the Internet Age, died Monday after a long illness at the age of 54. Her imprint on New Haven lives on.
by | Mar 7, 2019 6:48 pm | Comments (7)
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Mayor Harp answers student reporters’ questions Thursday.
When a reporter for the East Rock Record asked Mayor Toni Harp her thoughts on the anti-vaxxer movement, he got more than a policy answer — he learned about her own childhood, when she battled polio.
by | Feb 13, 2019 1:15 pm | Comments (0)
Susan Campbell wants you know better than to believe the above headline.
Continue reading ‘Porno Bookie Den Revealed In Historical Society Basement!’
by | Jan 13, 2019 11:27 pm | Comments (2)
Quinnipiac University plans to shut down its two-decade-old community radio station in June.
by | Jan 4, 2019 1:47 pm | Comments (6)
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Hartman updates press on 2017 SWAT response to Elm Street barricaded man’s shooting of wife and 2 cops.
Officer David Hartman — a public face of New Haven’s police department since 2011 — retired Friday after a quarter century in uniform and seven years of elevating law enforcement’s literary standard.
by | Jan 2, 2019 1:06 pm | Comments (1)
Students revealed what it’s like when their parents need to bring them along to work. So did their principal — who had similar experiences when she was a student in the same school back in the day.
by | Dec 13, 2018 8:32 am | Comments (1)
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Scenes from the recent school redistricting debate.
Hamden is becoming a “news desert.” So much important news is happening in the town; so little of it is covered.
I’m inviting you to help change that, gradually.
Continue reading ‘An Invitation To Support Hamden Local News Reporting’
by | Dec 11, 2018 1:05 pm | Comments (3)
(Opinion) — There are only two ways of awarding federal broadcast licenses — to diversify ownership of the news media or to concentrate it. The public interest is to diversify ownership and thus power, but federal policy long has been to concentrate ownership
It is about to get worse with Nexstar Media Group’s acquisition of Tribune Media’s television stations for $4.1 billion, a combination that will allow Nexstar to reach 39 percent of homes in the country.
by | Dec 10, 2018 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
Might a new business model be in the offing to spawn the next generation of quality local news organizations?
by | Nov 29, 2018 1:10 pm | Comments (0)
New Haven Independent readers have gone deep this week in debates in the comments section attached to stories on school suspensions, marijuana legalization, and hotel unionization, among other hot-button topics.