Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
Chatting jovially with eight other volunteers, Dwight neighborhood resident Pat Wallace preciously patted marigold seeds down in her tray and sprinkled soil over them with a wave of her hand. On Tuesday morning, a group of garden-loving women from local community activism associations gathered in the Pardee Greenhouse at the Rose Gardens in Hamden, kicking off a...
The last question of Monday night’s Ward 1 aldermanic debate was a particularly contentious one. “Pose a question to one of your opponents,” instructed debate moderator Paul Bass ’82, the editor of the New Haven Independent. Minh Tran ’09, who has repeatedly referenced his work as a Dwight Hall public school intern, turned to Mike Jones ’11 and asked him to...
The Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychologists filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Ricci v. DeStefano case that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear April 22. In the case, one Hispanic and 19 white firefighters have sued the city for throwing out the results of a promotion exam because minority firefighters did poorly on the exam. The Society for...
For candidates in a contentious three-way race, the Ward 1 hopefuls did a lot of agreeing. Aldermanic candidates Katie Harrison ’11, Mike Jones ’11 and Minh Tran ’09 met Thursday night to engage in the first Ward 1 debate of the campaign season. The 90-minute town hall discussion, sponsored by the Yale College Democrats and moderated by Dems President Sarah Turbow...
Chris Dodd vs. Tim Geithner: There’s a match-up that wasn’t anywhere to be seen on Barack Obama’s March Madness bracket last week. But, in truth, it may have been the only one that really mattered in his mind. Dodd, the 6-foot senior senator out of Connecticut, is at the heart of the AIG bonus scandal. Just about everyone is blaming him for the provision that let...
Blumenthal fights false advertising of acai berries Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 announced this week he would launch an investigation into the business practices and the science behind companies marketing acai berry products as weight-loss treatments. Blumenthal said he was investigating not only those questionable scientific claims, but also...
While the Ward 1 aldermanic candidates clamor for votes on Yale’s campus, the race for Ward 22 can afford to run at a more relaxed pace. After two years in the seat, Ward 22 Alderman Greg Morehead said Wednesday he will not decide until mid-April whether he will seek another term in office. Meanwhile, Ward 22 Democratic Committee Co-Chairwoman Cordelia Thorpe said she...
Ward 1 is not the only New Haven district to feature a Yale student as a candidate in the aldermanic race. Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said Tuesday that he will challenge Ward 10 Alderman Allan Brison for his seat, which represents many graduate students who live in the East Rock neighborhood. Although he moved to New Haven just two years ago to pursue a joint...
Six months before the Nov. 3 New Haven municipal elections, only one individual has officially declared that he will challenge Mayor John DeStefano Jr.: Darnell Goldson, who confirmed Sunday night that he will enter the race as an Independent. Goldson originally disclosed over a year ago that he planned to run, but has since then held off on making an official...
Various organizations are clamoring to contribute their opinions to the racially charged debate surrounding Ricci v. DeStefano, a case to be heard by the US Supreme Court next month. Last week, the city of New Haven filed its response brief for the case, in which one Hispanic and 19 white firefighters sued the city claiming they were denied promotions because of their...
Former State Rep. Bill Dyson will not run for the mayoral seat this fall, he told news outlets last Thursday. Since announcing last January that he was “considering” running for the position, Dyson was widely considered the leading contender as a possible challenger to Mayor John DeStefano Jr. in the upcoming municipal elections. In Dyson’s stead, former New Haven...
Hayden Leventhal was given 90 minutes’ notice before he was laid off from his job as a bookkeeper for the city’s Board of Education. His manager handed him a pink slip and directed him to a City Hall briefing on how the city would provide benefits and assistance for workers to find new jobs. When Leventhal returned to his job after the briefing, security guards...
