Dreams Flagged On Ellsworth
by | Feb 8, 2023 1:54 pm | Comments (3)
Nathaniel Britton had boots on the ground Wednesday. He could feel the soles and toes start to split.
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Skeptic Counters Camera Civil Rights Claim
by | Feb 8, 2023 9:16 am | Comments (26)
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One of three fatal crash scenes in nine years at the corner of York Street and South Frontage Road.
Advocates of “speed cameras” on perilous streets invoked traffic stop-sparked police violence to argue that the devices protect rather than curtail civil rights.
That’s a new argument. One camera skeptic who wore the badge isn’t buying it.
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Pizzeria Raises Dough For Turkish Earthquake Victims
by | Feb 7, 2023 2:50 pm | Comments (4)
The rubble in Diyarbakır, Turkey.
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Stepping up: Kadir Catalbasoglu Tuesday at Brick Oven Pizza.
The tragedy unfolding in his native Turkey prompted Kadir Catalbasoglu to do what he usually does when people need help: He got busy.
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Street Trees Condemned; Park Trees Preserved
by | Feb 6, 2023 5:04 pm | Comments (13)
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Drew Ramsey and Javon Hailey clear Kimberly Park's invasive vines.
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Dayton Death Row.
Five towering trees were sentenced to death on a crowded west side street. Meanwhile, across town, stewards whacked at vines in a reclaimed park to enable other trees to survive and thrive.
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Word On The Street: ICU Crew Lands At Bella's
by | Feb 3, 2023 1:43 pm | Comments (2)
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After working the overnight shift, surgical ICU nurse Makenzie Givens polished off a plate of scrambled eggs at Bella’s Cafe Friday morning, then headed home for some shut-eye.
But not too much shut-eye.
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"Wheels & Feet On Every Street": Active Transportation Group Branches Into The Schools
by | Feb 3, 2023 10:30 am | Comments (2)
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Lee Osorio, at right, chatting up the Coalition for Active Transportation at the 2023 New Haven Promise Internship Fair.
A New Haven “active-transit” group is marking its fifth anniversary by getting more kids on bikes around town more safely.
Ficklin Files To Seek 2nd Alder Term
by | Feb 3, 2023 8:50 am | Comments (0)
Thursday, as guest; Friday, as host: Tom Ficklin at WNHH FM.
Tom Ficklin has spent six months sitting in public hearings about public services and nominations to city boards and commissions. He has voted on laws. He has heard daily from neighbors about trash that needs to be picked up, trees that need trimming, streets that need to be made safer.
Word On Springside: Hot Pile, Cooler Planet
by | Feb 2, 2023 4:10 pm | Comments (1)
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Schandra Madha on the hot seat at Common Ground.
One of New Haven’s coolest places was also one of its hottest Thursday morning.
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Jazz Icon's Path From "Hambone" To Morse Hall
by | Feb 2, 2023 12:10 pm | Comments (1)
Stanley "Stan the Man" Welch and Jesse Hameen II on Wednesday.
Living local jazz legend and accomplished drummer Jesse Hameen II started out his musical career at the old Winchester School with a humble pair of instruments: his own two hands, which he put to work in a “hambone” body-percussion performance in the first show of what would become a decades-long career of finding the rhythm in his home city.
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Word On Winthrop: Mom/Daughter TCBs
by | Feb 1, 2023 5:22 pm | Comments (3)
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Beth Ewing left home Wednesday morning with a purpose.
"Big Dog" Has A Big Stevie Moment
by | Feb 1, 2023 11:19 am | Comments (0)
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Stetson Branch Librarian Diane Brown with Chris "Big Dog" Davis at WNHH FM.
Chris “Big Dog” Davis signed up to co-produce an update of a hit song Stevie Wonder wrote. Little did he know at first that he would also be recording the song with the legendary musician.
Word On Whalley: Wings Rise; Neon Fades
by | Jan 31, 2023 3:17 pm | Comments (5)
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Jack Deyo (above) drills hole for Wingstop sign (below, with colleagues Evan Curtin and TJ Telesco).
Six-foot-wide aluminum incarnations of the words “WING” and “STOP” rested on the Sherman Avenue sidewalk as three seasoned sign-installers scoped out the scene.
Word On Beers Street: That's The Drill
by | Jan 30, 2023 4:00 pm | Comments (1)
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Eugene J. Foreman Jr. looked surprisingly calm with his walkie-talkie out on the Beers Street sidewalk outside Augusta Lewis Troup School as a siren sounded and kids poured out of the building.
Retirement Had To Wait
by | Jan 26, 2023 5:06 pm | Comments (3)
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Nancy Jordan with 18-month-old Tramire as she and fellow church parishioners delivered holiday gifts to his home two months after a stray bullet struck him on his family's front porch.
When Nancy Jordan does her “clap-out dance” at police headquarters Friday, she doesn’t plan to make people wait outside.
Section 230 Battle Joined
by | Jan 26, 2023 12:35 pm | Comments (14)
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TAC's David Dinielli and law student Eleanor Runde -- who worked on an amicus brief in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case about tech platforms' legal liabilities -- at WNHH FM.
Consumer warning: If you want to publish a comment at the end of this story calling people names or lying about them committing horrible acts, tough luck. Your contributions don’t immediately get posted. They get reviewed and vetted according to rules of civility (not to mention libel law).
If, however, you have a terrorist video seeking to recruit people to blow up enemies whose religion or nationality you despise, or a lie-filled screed about someone you read about in the news, you can instantly publish it on YouTube. YouTube’s recommendation algorithm might even help you reach hateful loners all over the globe to take action of their own. And if some … unfortunate events follow, oh well. YouTube can continue doing that with more videos — as long as its parent company convinces U.S. Supreme Court justices to maintain its protection under a law passed nine years before the social-media video powerhouse was created.
Word On The Street: Sisterhood Is Wow-erful
by | Jan 25, 2023 3:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Lauren had a dual mission as she loaded her stuff Wednesday morning into a friend’s car headed for campus.
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Word On The Street: 1st Step Taken
by | Jan 24, 2023 5:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Silas Harris had a spring in his step Tuesday morning after taking a first metaphorical step toward rebuilding his life.
Word On The Street: New Loos Arrive
by | Jan 23, 2023 4:20 pm | Comments (0)
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Four deliveries down. Eight to go.
Mayoral “Explorer” Crafts Activist Platform
by | Jan 20, 2023 9:15 am | Comments (31)
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Liam Brennan at WNHH FM.
New Haven can stop making drug arrests (while still confiscating fentanyl). It can stop making gun arrests (while confiscating more illegal guns). It can build needed new housing in places it never dreamed before, or change or even override zoning barriers. It can even teach kids how to read rather than teach them how not to read.
So says Liam Brennan. He bases those conclusions on his personal and professional life experiences. And he’d like to give New Haveners the chance to elect someone who intends to lead the city into that new era.
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Word On The Street: Kash Starts Fresh
by | Jan 19, 2023 4:23 pm | Comments (0)
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Kasheem “Kash” Knight returned to Dwight from the overnight shift to throw in a load of laundry, and keep working.
Founding Father Fact-Checked
by | Jan 19, 2023 1:16 pm | Comments (6)
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Rob Forbes at WNHH FM with his new book.
Thomas Jefferson crossed out the letter “I” from a manuscript. And he almost got away with it. Robert Pierce Forbes discovered that cross-out more than three centuries later — and embarked on a quest to discover why.
Abdussabur: BOE Should Show Up
by | Jan 17, 2023 4:39 pm | Comments (19)
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Shafiq Abdussabur at WNHH FM: Community grows face-to-face.
The city’s Board of Education should ditch the remote and resume meeting in person to tackle the school system’s challenges, in the view of Democratic mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur.
Word On The Street: How An Olympian Keeps Running
by | Jan 17, 2023 2:59 pm | Comments (1)
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Boubacar Diallo momentarily locked up his furniture store Tuesday morning to run across the street to make a deposit at New Haven Bank. He’d be right back to try to keep commerce flowing on Whalley Avenue.
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Word On The Street: The Gig Cycle Spins
by | Jan 11, 2023 3:38 pm | Comments (1)
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Kirk Bankasingh checks on a load.
Inside the Wishy Washy Laundry Wednesday morning, Sparks’ eyes were sparkling.
Word On The Street: Dumped Trash Disappears
by | Jan 10, 2023 5:24 pm | Comments (6)
Derrex Conner was on his way to the dump when he noticed a dozen bags trashing the curb on Elm Street between Beers and Orchard.
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