Author Archives: Zeke Miller

The Yale Police Department and New Haven bomb squad responded to a report of a suspicious package outside Woodbridge Hall today, but the apparent threat proved to be a false alarm. Officers arrived shortly before 5 p.m. and closed Beinecke Plaza and part of Wall Street between College and High streets. Bomb technicians donned protective »

Amid a period of rapid expansion and rising costs, the Connecticut Transportation Strategy Board — chaired by Yale’s vice president for New Haven and state affairs, Bruce Alexander — gathered Wednesday at the Greenberg Conference Center on Prospect Street to plot the future of Connecticut transit. At the two-hour meeting, the bipartisan committee — composed »

HARTFORD — Four years after his unsuccessful bid to unseat Sen. Joe Lieberman ’64 LAW ’67 in the Democratic senatorial primary, Ned Lamont SOM ’80 is back. Lamont returned to the place where he launched that campaign in 2006 — at the historic Old State House here — and announced Tuesday that he will seek »

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — At least five people are dead, a dozen more injured and an unknown number missing following an explosion at the Kleen Energy power plant in this otherwise quiet college town. The facility, which is under construction and was expected to open in June, was the scene of a massive firefighting and search »

When the New Haven nonprofit Christian Community Action saw a 32 percent jump in demand for Thanksgiving turkeys, Executive Director Rev. Bonita Grubbs knew New Haven residents were hurting. Now she has the statistics to prove it. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey showed that poverty in Connecticut had increased more than in »

With two new contenders, Republicans hoping to unseat Sen. Chris Dodd see new hope, and new challenges. Five Republicans are competing for the chance to challenge Dodd next November, with two of the newcomers — former-World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon, and economist and hedge-fund manager Peter Schiff — joining the campaign trail in the »

Compared to those who live in neighboring cities, New Haven residents fare relatively well in terms of insurance coverage, new data suggest. According to newly compiled data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, 3.5 percent of children in New Haven are uninsured, while the city’s overall uninsured rate of 13.4 percent. The figures place New »

Raymond Clark III, a Yale animal lab technician, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with the murder of Annie Le GRD ’13, a 24-year-old doctoral student in pharmacology who authorities say was strangled to death at an on-campus research facility. A warrant was issued for Clark’s arrest shortly after 8 a.m., New Haven Police Department »

Connecticut lost 3,700 jobs in the month of August, according to the Labor Situation Report released by the state Thursday afternoon. Last month’s losses brought the state’s unemployment rate up to 8.1 percent, below the national rate of 9.7 percent. And within Connecticut, New Haven appears to be holding up well in the face of »

Raymond Clark III was arrested this morning and charged with the murder of Annie Le GRD ’13, authorities announced Thursday. New Haven Police Department Chief James Lewis said at a press conference that a warrant was issued for Clark’s arrest shortly after 8 a.m. Clark, 24, who worked at Yale as an animal lab technician, »

While debate over national health care reform rages in Washington, administrators at the Yale Health Plan are finding answers close to home. In interviews, past and present directors of the Yale Health Plan said the University’s comprehensive insurance model contains solutions to many of the problems plaguing the nation’s health care system. “We have in »

Eight years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, war rages on in the Middle East. But at Yale, one would be hard-pressed to notice. “I should know much more about it,” Nathan Blevins ’12 said. “I know it’s important, I’m just not up on it.” “I don’t actively follow it that closely,” Esi Hutchful »