Civic Leaders Honored
by | Apr 24, 2014 2:24 pm | Comments (1)
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A crowd of 165 people filled Amarante’s Tuesday night to toast some of New Haven’s private-sector leaders.
Media
Rape Headline Blasted
by | Apr 24, 2014 1:04 pm | Comments (9)
An Independent teaser to a story in our sister publication in the Naugatuck Valley prompted a debate about how to package stories about rape.
Last-Ditch Downtown Pitch Fails
by | Apr 21, 2014 12:01 pm | Comments (26)
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Nemerson: “You can’t always get what you want.”
City Hall’s efforts to move the New Haven Register downtown have met with a final “no.”
Register Shelves Downtown Move
by | Mar 28, 2014 11:49 am | Comments (6)
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The surviving reporters at the New Haven Register have learned that their newsroom probably won’t move downtown, after all.
Reader Displeased
by | Mar 13, 2014 1:54 pm | Comments (12)
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The following letter arrived at the Independent’s office Thursday from a reader in Woodbridge, addressed to the Independent’s editor. (The reader’s name has been withheld.)
Smart Issues Illegal Gag Order On Public Records
by | Jan 9, 2014 4:20 pm | Comments (49)
(Update: 8:23 p.m.) New Haven’s new city/town clerk has ordered his staff not to hand out public documents to the public — especially the press.
(He rescinded part of that order late Thursday after this story originally appeared.)
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Neighborhood News Flash!
by | Nov 7, 2013 3:21 pm | Comments (3)
New Haven’s block watches have started seeing the crime updates that New Haven’s cops see every day.
City Site Serves Up Answers By Neighborhood
by | Nov 5, 2013 9:06 am | Comments (2)
If you are new to Front Street or suddenly came down with election-fatigue triggered amnesia and forget which day and which time the trash is collected … or if you see a downed wire and want to know whom to call … you can now get a quick electronic answer courtesy of City Hall.
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Campaign Enters Fourth Dimension
by | Oct 2, 2013 8:07 am | Comments (4)
A voter tweeted the candidate a question about cops in schools. The candidate shared his answer on video with people “hanging out” via Google. Others watched the exchange on YouTube; some of them emailed more questions.
There was a phone number, too, but that was so last decade. No one called.
Brazilian Consular General Blasts Journalist’s Detention
by | Sep 30, 2013 11:28 am | Comments (2)
The region’s top Brazilian diplomat Monday expressed outrage over Yale police’s decision to handcuff a prominent Brazilian reporter and incarcerate her for five hours for trying to cover a campus event.
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Vindicated Cop-Photographer Sues City
by | Sep 18, 2013 2:00 pm | Comments (16)
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Nearly three years after a top New Haven cop illegally had him arrested for filming police in action, Luis Luna is suing the city.
“You Ready?”
by | Sep 4, 2013 4:41 pm | Comments (16)
Kermit Carolina appears only momentarily and utters only one sentence in his new campaign commercial: a tag line stating he paid for video. Otherwise, he lets the camera — and his target voters — tell the story.
Conde-Nast Dopes Malign Our City
by | Aug 2, 2013 1:42 pm | Comments (29)
Get this logic: Despite having warm and fuzzy Yale University in our midst, New Haven still somehow ranks as the third-unfriendliest city in … the country.
Can This Reddit Lie Be Stopped?
by | Jul 28, 2013 1:23 pm | Comments (9)
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Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features an article detailing how a lie about a sensitive story became confirmed “fact” in the news media thanks to a viral social-media journey launched on the Reddit site. That story involved a false report about one of the alleged Boston marathon bombers (who turned out not to be one of the alleged Boston marathon bombers).
Meanwhile another lie about a controversial story continued to gain currency Sunday on social-media sites about an incident in New Haven. This one involved the bloodying of a white technician at New Haven Power Sports—possibly at the hands of some black male teenagers. Again, Reddit is one major feed of that lie.
He Makes The Campaign More “Like”-able
by | Jul 11, 2013 3:08 pm | Comments (3)
Marvin Towler got people “liking” and messaging to move Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Can he do the same for Kermit Carolina’s quest to become New Haven’s next mayor?
Read—& Hear—All About It!
by | Jun 1, 2013 9:44 pm | Comments (5)
Starting today, you can read not only the Independent — but a book about the Independent, and other experiments around the country to reinvent local journalism online.
The Future Looks Familiar
by | Apr 4, 2013 1:30 pm | Comments (1)
A Microsoft adviser offered a New Haven audience a glimpse of the future of computing: A pen and paper. And a desk lamp.
There’s An App For That Campaign
by | Feb 25, 2013 5:04 pm | Comments (8)
If you’re looking for the latest on mayoral candidate Gary Holder-Winfield at 5 a.m., check Foursquare — or download a new app to your smartphone.
New Haven Vs. Newtown: Which Is Gun Town?
by | Jan 30, 2013 7:27 pm | Comments (8)
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While lawmakers in Hartford debated laws to stem gun violence in the wake of the Newtown massacre, a panel of bloggers at a New Haven “town meeting” took on gun culture — with differing views on where it festers most.
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Sound Familiar?
by | Jan 28, 2013 3:46 pm | Comments (0)
Saturday Night Live popped in on a New Haven firefighters’ “fundraiser.” Click on the play arrow to watch.
Bring to mind any real-life events?
Editorial Era Ends
by | Jan 22, 2013 5:39 pm | Comments (4)
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Charles Kochakian, the editorial voice of the New Haven Register for 36 years, is hanging up his pen-turned-keyboard.
Just Sayin’
by | Jan 22, 2013 12:10 pm | Comments (0)
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In New Haven, at least, online is king when it comes to local news.
Righty The Mitten Returns
by | Jan 11, 2013 5:04 pm | Comments (2)
After Natalie Elicker lost a mitten in Mitchell Drive, she and her husband walked around for hours looking for it. No luck. Then she turned to SeeClickFix.
Watchdog Becomes
Mayor's Spokeswoman
by | Jan 7, 2013 5:28 pm | Comments (1)
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Mariotti at a Democracy Fund meeting.
For the 12th time Mayor John DeStefano has named a new spokesperson. The new appointee is Anna Mariotti.
Turning 10, Youth Rights
Revisits Cop-Teen Divide
by | Dec 12, 2012 4:04 pm | Comments (7)
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Chelsea Martin at Tuesday night’s event, & in film (background).
At 16, Chelsea Martin has already lost people she cares about to violence. She has found a positive way to deal with that.
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‘Turning 10, Youth Rights
Revisits Cop-Teen Divide’