Author Archives: Esther Zuckerman

Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones’ ’11 proposal to increase city wages has found another source of opposition: one of its co-sponsors. The proposal, spearheaded by Jones, seeks to raise the “living wage” — the minimum salary, based on economic indices, for an average household to meet everyday costs — to $14.67 an hour, from $12 »

When Roland Lemar departs from the Board of Aldermen to start his new gig asstate representative,he will vacate his post as chairman of the legislation committee. His choice of successor: Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones ’11. “If [Board of Aldermen President] Carl [Goldfield] chooses to appoint Mike Jones as chair of legislation, he will make »

Two men have been murdered in or near New Haven’s downtown nightclubs in the last two years, and now City Hall wants to create a police detail to patrol the city’s downtown nightlife scene. The proposed police detail, announced this week by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., is one way in which New Haven is trying »

The Yale College Democrats have withdrawn their sponsorship of a screening of “The Tillman Story,”a documentary about the military cover-up of football star and Army Ranger Pat Tillman’s 2004 death in Afghanistan, out of concern that the screening is meant to demonize retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who is teaching a course at Yale this fall. »

Mayor John DeStefano Jr.spoke out against a proposed wage hikein a Wednesdaypress conference a dayafter an aldermanic debateon the matter lasted more than five hours. The proposal was written by Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones ’11and threeother aldermen who would raise the “living wage” — the minimum salary, based on economic indices, for an average »

It was standing-room only in the Aldermanic Chambers of New Haven City Hall Wednesday evening, as Yale community members and New Haven residents gathered to hear Ward 1 Alderman Mike Jones’ ’11 plan to raise the minimum wage for city employees and corporate and nonprofit partners. Jones and three other aldermen advanced yet another version »

The main dining room of Mory’s erupted with the sounds of boisterous harmonized singing Wednesday night: The Whiffenpoofs were once again “to the tables down at Mory’s,” as if nothing had changed. “This is the first cup at Mory’s that has been finished since Mory’s reopened, I think,” said Whiffenpoof Evan Gogel ’10, who downed »

Two Chicago Police Department veterans and one member of the New Haven Police Department were sworn in Friday as New Haven’s new assistant chiefs of police, according to a City Hall press release. Thomas Wheeler Jr. and Tobin Hensgen both served in the CPD, where NHPD Chief Frank Limon, who took his post in early »

Updated, May 29, 12:05 a.m. The New Haven Board of Aldermen passed Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s proposed 2010-’11 fiscal year budget Thursday night, according to a release issued by City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga. The 22–7 vote in favor of the budget comes after DeStefano amended his original proposal earlier this month. The amendment cut »

Education, homelessness and the economy were the hot-button issues at a forum for state representative candidates hosted Monday night by the Yale College Democrats in the Branford College common room. The forum, which attracted about 20 people, featured Ward 9 Alderman Roland Lemar and community activist and psychotherapist Debra Hauser, both candidates for state representative »

While an empty storefront in downtown New Haven may look like a bleak reminder of the economic recession, artists like Martha Lewis ART ’93 see a blank canvas. An artist who works in several media, Lewis is considering applying for a new pilot program allowing local and out-of-state artists to fill vacant stores with new »

Nearly year round, workers from Connecticut-based Norm Bloom and Son catch young oysters in the Long Island Sound by dropping a large collecting basket called a dredge off their boat, piling its deck full of the shellfish and taking them to Norwalk, where they will grow and eventually be sold. But this year, because of »