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City businesses rely on holidays to boost sales
Community organizations, stores and city promoters have come together this season to offer visitors a slew of events ranging from a holiday window-decoration contest to “Hung by the Chimney,” a concert by the Connecticut Gay Men’s Chorus. Promoters said they have seen a rise in attendance from previous years, but whether the increased tourism will translate into successful sales for stores in a season of economic downturn remains to be seen.
Report finds race profiling did not occur
University Librarian defends her decision not to apologize, publicly clears employee’s name
Yale University library staff did not racially profile a library employee last month, according to a report released Tuesday following a three-day investigation by Yale’s Office for Equal Opportunity Programs, library and Local 34 union officials said.
Locals dedicate Iraq memorial
Few Yalies attend unveiling of month-by-month commemoration of war’s military, civilian deaths
More than 50 members of the New Haven community gathered Monday night to inaugurate a memorial for city residents killed in the Iraq war. But Yale students were mostly M.I.A.
Library staff accused of race profiling
Local 34 seeks apology for worker falsely suspected of dealing drugs
Union leaders are now asking University Librarian Alice Prochaska to apologize for what they called an incidence of racial profiling.
Crowded jails, ban on parole protested
Community members urge overturning of Rell’s parole suspension
As the light of street lamps illuminated a swirl of mist and drizzle, more than 65 protestors rallied Monday evening in front of the Whalley Avenue jail, demanding that the state provide its citizens with “books, not bars.”
New chamber of commerce to focus on business concerns of gay community
Officially called the Connecticut Alliance for Business Opportunities, the GLBT chamber will feature networking and educational events common to most chambers and will tackle issues concerning businesses and employees nationwide, such as health care, workers’ rights and equal access to employment. But supporters said the chamber will also bolster GLBT-owned businesses, GLBT-friendly businesses and GLBT consumers by introducing different groups to one another and advocating for issues of inter
Cities debate local ID cards nationwide
Efforts to provide identification for undocumented immigrants nationwide lurched forward and backwards yesterday. In anticipation of overwhelming opposition from New York legislators and courts, Gov. Eliot Spitzer last night said he plans to abandon a highly controversial proposal to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Meanwhile, San Francisco became the second city to issue municipal IDs, following on the heels of New Haven’s own Elm City Resident Card program, which was en
Union allies with Watchdogs after mayor’s directive
‘Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t arrest’ policy for illegal immigrants violates federal law, group alleges
Last Friday, two Yale Law School students and one community organizer visited the NHPD to reaffirm General Order 06-2, a December 2006 directive that instructs police officers to enact a “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t arrest” policy when dealing with undocumented immigrants who are not facing criminal charges. The encounter drew the ire of officials in the NHPD union Local 530, who said the students’ latest affirmation of the order was inappropriate, and inspired renewed calls from
YEI urges Elis to ‘stay and build’
With its geographic proximity to investment centers but a limited supply of technological talent, New Haven is a mixed bag as a business community, said Sudipta Bandyopadhyay ’08, a YEI graduate and chief executive officer of SciCircuit CEO, a networking Web site for the science community.
State must release raid documents
Representing immigrants-rights groups, Law School attorneys prevail in appeal to FOIA panel
In a 4-0 decision yesterday, the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission ordered the state Department of Public Safety to release documents relating to the June 6 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids on immigrants in the Fair Haven neighborhood.