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“Cop Of The Week,” Reconsidered
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.
Levine-Ritterman Mugged!
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.
Sepulveda Case Dismissed
by | Jul 4, 2017 8:52 am | Comments (4)
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David Sepulveda locked and handcuffed in a cruiser at the scene: Trump tweets about it; New Haven does it in real life.
No deal, Independent reporter David Sepulveda told the state.
No case, the judge ruled in the end.
Live From Gateway ... It’s WNPR!
by | Jun 19, 2017 4:38 pm | Comments (2)
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Diane Orson, chief of WNPR’s new downtown New Haven news bureau.
You may soon hear a familiar voice with a new ID tag: “This is Faith Middleton of ‘Food Schmooze’ broadcasting from Gateway Community College in New Haven.”
Experts: In Opioid Abuse Challenge, Words Matter
by | Jun 14, 2017 7:57 am | Comments (3)
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Gail D’Onofrio.
Don’t call them “addicts,” “users,” “drug users,” “drug abusers,” or “junkies.” Call them “patients with opioid disorder.”
And don’t say they have a “problem.” They have a “disease.”
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Register Owner Promises 10 New Hires
by | Jun 7, 2017 5:08 pm | Comments (3)
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Era of continual change: The last-ever locally printed Register front page rolls off the former presses at 2:21 a.m. on March 4, 2012.
Hearst prez Aldam.
As print-daily newsrooms continue to shrink across the nation, the New Haven Register’s new corporate boss said he plans to add reporters and increase local coverage.
Hearst Corporation President Mark E. Aldam offered that statement in an interview with the Independent Wednesday, two days after his company purchased the print-daily Register, Middletown Press, Torrington Register-Citizen; Connecticut magazine; and 11 weeklies from Digital First Media.
Hearst Buys New Haven Register
by | Jun 6, 2017 7:23 am | Comments (7)
The chain owner of the Connecticut Post has purchased the New Haven Register and other local news outlets reportedly for under $50 million, consolidating its southern base in its statewide competition with the chain owner of the Hartford Courant.
Rabbi Seeks To Bar Blogger from Court
by | May 15, 2017 12:03 pm | Comments (6)
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Larry “Noodles” Dressler speaks to camera after peppering Rabbi Daniel Greer with questions.
Hartford — Defense attorneys for Rabbi Daniel Greer tried to prohibit a blogger who has intensely chronicled Greer’s sexual abuse case from entering a courtroom here — by misrepresenting a legal document.
Toni Harp, Reporting Live
by | Mar 15, 2017 1:44 pm | Comments (0)
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Lyles greets Harp during storm.
Mayor Toni Harp rode city plow truck #152 during Tuesday’s blizzard, and brought a live video audience along with her.
Next-Gen TV Pioneer Plans Move To City
by | Feb 24, 2017 2:54 pm | Comments (6)
Some shows planned to air on Copsidas’ new local station.
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Serial entrepreneur Copsidas.
“SuperFrank” cooked up a plan for James Brown: have him sing “Sex Machine” on a float at Pride Parade in New York.
Now he has cooked up a new plan: Ride the next revolutionary wave in television, out of a new headquarters in New Haven.
First The Ugly ... Then The Love
by | Jan 31, 2017 4:58 pm | Comments (0)
Starting Wednesday, you can chase a whole lot of “ugliness” each weekday morning with a shot of love, now that Babz Rawls-Ivy has joined the daily WNHH radio line-up.
Feisty Print Publisher Converting To Digital
by | Jan 24, 2017 5:09 pm | Comments (0)
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Publisher Young.
After braving the digital threat to print for more than a decade — and outlasting a corporate competitor he said was created to put him out of business — publisher Mitch Young is moving his Business New Haven and New Haven magazine publications completely online.
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WTNH Gets A New Boss
by | Jan 19, 2017 11:07 am | Comments (1)
Graziano.
A former Connecticut TV and newspaper exec is returning to New Haven from the Big Apple to take the reins of WTNH, as the station undergoes yet another corporate changeover.
Please Help Us Get Over The Top
by | Jan 17, 2017 9:08 am | Comments (3)
We found a dollar in out compost heap! Now we need only another $9,999 to make our fundraising goal. Want to help?
Please Support Local Not-For-Profit News
by | Jan 1, 2017 9:12 am | Comments (0)
Through Jan. 19, you can help keep the Independent reporting on New Haven — and have your donations matched dollar for dollar as part of a national drive to support local not-for-profit news reporting.
Chief Orders IA Probe Of Reporter’s Arrest
by | Dec 19, 2016 5:14 pm | Comments (38)
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Sepulveda handcuffed and detained in cop cruiser.
The state’s case was continued Monday against a reporter arrested while taking photos of a crime scene, while New Haven’s interim police chief ordered an internal affairs investigation into the case.
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How She Got The World The Story
by | Nov 25, 2016 3:12 pm | Comments (0)
Coup leaders Boris Pugo, Gennady Yanayev, and Oleg Baklanov announce they’re in charge.
The coup leaders ordered CNN’s live-feed quashed. Eileen O’Connor had other ideas.
Post-Election Call: Understand Trumpers
by | Nov 10, 2016 2:36 pm | Comments (12)
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After enduring a Trumpian-inspired assault of “kike” and “fag” tweets, Newsweek senior writer Kurt Eichenwald might have reason to disparage die-hard followers of America’s next president.
Instead, he urged a blue (in two senses of the word) New Haven audience gathered for a post-election reckoning to move beyond dismissive stereotypes.
SeeClickFix Gets To “Work”
by | Oct 27, 2016 3:15 pm | Comments (1)
The creators of SeeClickFix reached a milestone this week, and launched a new tool for governments to track how they respond to citizens
“Miss Librarian” Passes Half-Century Mark
by | Oct 26, 2016 11:56 am | Comments (0)
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Boss Brogan (left) hails Carolla at her 50th annviersary party.
Marianne Carolla remembers when there were eight neighborhood library branches, not only the five current (including the main). In particular she remembers the storefront branch on Chapel at Norton, where the paperbacks hung on spindles as in an old book store window.
Once a man, a library patron, came in and said to her, “I want something that’s hot to trot.”
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Today On WNHH Radio
by | Oct 25, 2016 7:59 pm | Comments (0)
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Streets.
The most recent programs on WNHH radio delve into jazz music new, old, and New Haven specific, urge listeners to get out and vote, dabble in high school football, and look at new initiatives in journalism.
Aliyya Ascends
by | Sep 28, 2016 12:33 pm | Comments (5)
Courtesy WNHH Radio
Aliyya Swaby
The next time people read an education article by Aliyya Swaby, the dateline will be from the Lone Star State.
Wyman: I Can’t Scale That Wall
by | Sep 20, 2016 11:58 am | Comments (0)
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The lieutenant guv and the Scribe both wore pink.
Nancy Wyman hopes to visit her kids if Donald Trump becomes president — but isn’t sure how she’ll hoist herself over that border wall.
Typo-Catcher Mugged
by | Aug 30, 2016 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Tubis receives her winning mug from WNHH Station Manager Lucy Gellman.
Anne Tubis doesn’t miss much.