Author Archives: Daniel Bethencourt

The New Haven Fire Department is one engine down. The city’s fire chiefs faced tough questions and a largely skeptical public at a Public Safety Committee Wednesday night for their decision to retire the engine — one of 12 in New Haven. The fire officials discussed their March decision to retire a fire engine this »

Yale may not be the first name that comes to mind when one thinks of party schools, but yesterday the University was visited by a man whose full-time job is keeping parties alive all over the world. On Thursday Markus Schulz, an international trance music producer who was most recently rated the eighth-best DJ in »

Residents of New Haven will soon be able to watch one of their alderwomen find love on a Spanish-language dating show. After making it through the local, regional and state auditions, Ward 16 Alderwoman Migdalia Castro — an American of Puerto Rican descent — will be the sole Northeastern bacholerette on the Spanish-language Telemundo dating »

Explosive volcanoes may have more in common than experts thought. Researchers at Yale and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver have devised a new theoretical model for predicting a volcano’s harmonic tremor, an unexplained phenomenon that often precedes a violent volcano’s eruption. Their model, published in the Feb. 24 issue of the journal Nature, »

The future of large-scale wind power for the state of Connecticut is up in the air. A plan for two 1.6-megawatt turbines in Prospect, Conn., has been proposed that would bring the first commercial-level turbines to the otherwise wind-sparse state. However, it is potentially threatened by a state bill debated two weeks ago calling for »