William “Juneboy” Outlaw III was New Haven’s top cocaine dealer before he reached the age of 20. Then he spent decades behind bars, staring at death.
This week Outlaw, who’s now 51, hit the big time again — this time as a star street outreach worker featured on the Today Show and in a biography about to rock the nation with a tale of personal redemption.
Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker offered that idea Thursday afternoon in response to the first surprise question he fielded since Tuesday’s election by a local reporter — who also happens to be a third-grader at East Rock Community School.
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.
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.
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.
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Jun 4, 2019 12:09 pm
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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.
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May 23, 2019 12:41 pm
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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 WNHHFM’s “The Municipal Voice.”
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
