by | Nov 2, 2018 1:07 pm | Comments (2)
From now through the end of December, you can join a nationwide campaign to combat fake news by supporting real news where it counts most — at home. And have your contribution matched dollar for dollar.
by | Oct 17, 2018 2:11 pm | Comments (0)
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Hot of the press: The first edition of New Haven Biz magazine.
The New Haven business community is leaping off the Internet and back onto the printed page.
by | Aug 26, 2018 9:58 am | Comments (6)
A whole lot’s been going on in New Haven.
But for some reason … there are temporarily no news stories found on the Independent’s assignment desk.
by | Aug 16, 2018 7:42 am | Comments (2)
Dear Friends,
Today, the Institute for Nonprofit News joins journalists across the country in asking you, the public, to stand up for your rights to free speech and an open government.
by | Aug 14, 2018 6:01 pm | Comments (0)
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Kids TV reporter Beam presses Douglass on whom she voted for.
The results of the first exit polls Tuesday came from four energetic 8‑to-10-year olds, members of Newhallville’s Kids TV Network, at their neighborhood’s polling place at the Lincoln-Bassett School.
Continue reading ‘Kids TV Gets The Story At Newhallville’s Polls’
by | Jul 31, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (7)
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Plaintiffs’ attorney Patricia Cofrancesco in court.
A Superior Court judge refused to suspend the Freedom of Information Act in part of New Haven — despite the efforts of a lawyer representing cops who were passed over for promotions.
by | Jul 26, 2018 7:50 am | Comments (10)
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Patricia Cofrancesco: Don’t release public records to press.
After reading a news article she found “hugely problematic,” a lawyer asked a judge to stop the city from releasing a range of public records about police officers to the press until her case is decided.
Continue reading ‘Lawyer Falsely Accuses City Of Leaking Docs’
by | Jul 15, 2018 5:16 pm | Comments (7)
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Marcia Chambers, a barrier-breaking New York Times reporter who combined keen instinct with deep intellect and who went on to found and edit the online Branford Eagle, died Friday night at Smilow Cancer Hospital.
by | May 21, 2018 8:54 am | Comments (3)
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Pressman Bob Harrison working the now-gone New Haven Register presses.
Author Dan Kennedy: There’s hope.
Communities can’t thrive without strong, independent journalism.
by | May 16, 2018 5:04 pm | Comments (6)
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Wolfe: Don’t believe the type.
(Opinion) If you believe the above headline, you’re probably among the multitudes mourning the death of Tom Wolfe by praising his impact on journalism.
Continue reading ‘Career Criminal Tom Wolfe’s Dying Words Revealed!’
by | May 16, 2018 7:50 am | Comments (26)
Yale police not getting to the bottom of a black student’s ID card.
Yale University is refusing to let the public see how its cops dealt with a white graduate student who called in a complaint about a napping African-American graduate student — and to see whether cops treated the two students differently.
by | Apr 20, 2018 7:51 am | Comments (6)
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The approved new home for an “orphan” ad panel, outside the CVS on Whalley Avenue.
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The bike share station, and ad panel, on Grove Street.
The greenbelt outside of the CVS on Whalley Avenue will soon be home to the new city bike share program’s first “orphan” ad panel: an eight-by-five-foot, double-sided advertisement that will not stand immediately alongside a group of lime-green bicycles available for short-term rental.
Continue reading ‘Bike Share “Orphan” Ad Panel Set For Whalley’
by | Apr 11, 2018 12:09 pm | Comments (7)
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The new Coors Light ad outside Café Romeo.
The city’s bike share program has a new advertiser: Coors Light.
by | Apr 3, 2018 8:24 am | Comments (11)
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The billboard at night: It’s lit.
Hartford—New Haven State Rep. Pat Dillon said she received some criticism from colleagues when she introduced a bill that would reinforce cities’ authority to regulate the brightness of digital billboards. Weren’t there more important things for her to draft legislation about?
Then a new sign at Whalley Avenue and Emerson Street was powered on.
by | Mar 23, 2018 8:18 am | Comments (21)
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Grotheer pitches alders.
Lawmakers didn’t press “like” as they questioned a proposal to spend $50,000 a year on a new mayoral Facebook/Twitter/Snapchat specialist while raising taxes 11 percent.
Mayoral officials responded that in a social media-saturated era of vanishing news reporters, City Hall must become more of its own news outlet.
by | Mar 20, 2018 8:10 am | Comments (1)
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Furlow testifies at the Capitol Monday..
The fate of a digital billboard erected on Whalley Avenue is clear. It’s not going anywhere.
But west-side neighbors and elected officials said the city should have more explicit power to regulate such future billboards, though outdoor advertising advocates say it already has such powers.
Continue reading ‘Electronic Billboard Quest Comes To Capitol’
by | Feb 28, 2018 1:00 pm | Comments (4)
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Electronic billboard at 1057 Whalley.
An electronic billboard’s LED pixels on upper Whalley have illuminated a hole in the zoning ordinance, and sent politicians looking to tighten regulations before the Elm City starts to resemble Vegas.
Continue reading ‘Electronic Sign Sparks Call For New Rules’
by | Feb 22, 2018 3:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Jimmy Wales at Miami confab.
Miami — Fake news and comment-thread sewers don’t scare Jimmy Wales.
Wales, the man who who conquered the World Wide Web 1.0 with a vision of citizen-powered information called Wikipedia, is back with an updated plan to protect us from from threats to a vital press, without giving up the democratic dream.
by | Feb 21, 2018 9:21 am | Comments (17)
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Mickey D ad at new bike share station, near Grove & Church.
Mayor Toni Harp checks out the first official bike.
New Haveners have a new, healthier transit option — coupled with enticements to consume Coca-Cola and Sausage McMuffins.
Those fast-food advertisements have gone up alongside docking stations for Bike New Haven, the city’s long-awaited bike-share program.
by | Feb 14, 2018 1:47 pm | Comments (1)
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Political pundit Khalilah Brown-Dean Tuesday with WNPR’s Lori Mack and John Dankosky inside the new studio.
New Haven’s downtown gateway to higher ed has become a gateway to the statewide radio airwaves, as well.
by | Jan 18, 2018 5:09 pm | Comments (2)
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The meme.
Do plagiarism laws apply to memes?
by | Jan 12, 2018 2:06 pm | Comments (0)
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The Elm Street yeshiva building.
One of the men accusing prominent New Haven Rabbi Daniel Greer of sexually abusing him told his story in harrowing detail — on video. Should the public get to watch it?
by | Nov 28, 2017 8:44 am | Comments (0)
This “Giving Tuesday,” please consider including a contribution to the Independent.
by | Nov 15, 2017 8:44 am | Comments (10)
Christian Bruckhart.
(Opinion) I’m just a patrol cop in New Haven. This is my opinion and it doesn’t reflect the position of anyone but myself. I wasn’t paid, ordered or otherwise told to write it. I authored it off duty, and it’s worth exactly what you’re paying to read it.
by | Aug 28, 2017 7:27 am | Comments (1)
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Levine-Ritterman claims the prize.
Barb Levine-Ritterman has made it easier to read the New Haven Independent — by catching more than 140 typos.