Alyssa Rosenberg
Industry of future can’t recreate boom of past

This week brought the bad news that Genaissance Pharmaceuticals, Inc., one of the biotechnology companies that have been touted as a critical part of New […]

Little merit in Joyce Chen’s bid for Hartford

Tomorrow on Election Day, going to the polls in New Haven might seem anticlimactic. Connecticut will, barring an electoral miracle, go to John Kerry and […]

As Toad’s shows, city is silent on homophobia

Regardless of what you think of booty cams and drunken hookups, Toad’s Place set a new standard in tastelessness last Tuesday when it proceeded with […]

Yale needs to join community leaders at table

Last week brought the welcome news that Yale University has started negotiations with Mayor John DeStefano Jr. to increase the payments it makes to New […]

Choose to be citizens, not just residents

Now that you, the class of 2008 have arrived, unpacked your bags and boxes, transformed your Blue Book selections into classes and large piles of […]

City is battleground for equal marriage rights

Tax Day in New Haven has come and gone again this year, as it always does, mostly without comment. Returns have been filed, post offices […]

City, Yale must be equal partners

When Locals 34 and 35 signed new contracts with Yale in the fall, it might have seemed like the major complicating factor in the relationship […]

Youth programs need better fraud protection

It is infuriating to pick up a copy of the New Haven Register to read that Ben Hunter, an associate principal at Hillhouse High School […]

Students and community can have effect locally in election

She immigrated to the United States the day after her 21st birthday, and she voted in every election, she told me, until she lost her […]

Repairs are needed in city-police relations

I didn’t realize until the end of the hour that the four boys sitting across the table from me were all juvenile offenders who had […]

Neighborhood and city must revitalize Dixwell’s streets

It had stopped snowing in Dixwell by 5 p.m., but according to the man digging out his car out on Admiral St., the plows wouldn’t […]