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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.
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.”
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.”
Continue reading ‘Experts: In Opioid Abuse Challenge, Words Matter’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Feisty Print Publisher Converting To Digital’
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.
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?
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.
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.
Continue reading ‘Chief Orders IA Probe Of Reporter’s Arrest’
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.
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.
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
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.”
Continue reading ‘“Miss Librarian” Passes Half-Century Mark’
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.
by | Sep 28, 2016 12:33 pm | Comments (5)
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Aliyya Swaby
The next time people read an education article by Aliyya Swaby, the dateline will be from the Lone Star State.
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.
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.
by and | Jul 26, 2016 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
Clayton, McMorris-Santoro dish in Philly.
Philadelphia — As renowned political reporters raced to get Democratic National Convention hot takes recorded in the annals of Twitter, another set of reporters kicked off their own political entertainment show — with a shot of whiskey.
by | Jun 15, 2016 8:03 am | Comments (0)
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Antonio: Out & Latino.
Elinor Slomba had just returned home from ladies night at Partners Cafe when she tuned into the news.
Dancer Luis Antonio saw the news flash while in Colorado visiting his boyfriend Jasper’s family on Sunday morning.
by | May 13, 2016 7:22 am | Comments (1)
From the new Senators, Sinners, and Supermen exhibit.
To the government, the horror and crime comics of the 1950s were a clear threat to national life and security. And they cost only a dime.