Lily Belle Poling
Staff Reporter
@lilybellepoling | lily.poling@yale.edu
Lily Belle Poling is the Managing Editor of the Yale Daily News. She previously covered housing and homelessness and was a production and design editor. Originally from Montgomery, Alabama, she is a junior in Branford College majoring in English.
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ARIELA LOPEZ & LILY BELLE POLING
Local pro-Palestinian activists campaign against Harris as election nears

At a protest organized by Connecticut’s Palestine Solidarity Coalition, locals rallied against Israel’s war in Gaza and Lebanon, with some encouraging voters to cast their ballots for third-party candidates in November.

October 8, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Elicker proposes redirecting $8.5 million to New Haven Public Schools

New Haven ran a $16.4 million budget surplus in Fiscal Year 2023-2024. Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed assigning $3 million in freed funds to New Haven Public Schools in addition to $5.5 million of ARPA funds.

October 4, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
ANALYSIS: English Station, an environmental nuisance to New Haven, may become even less accountable to federal oversight

If English Station’s parent company becomes privately held, the already poorly regulated center of pollution in Fair Haven will become an even greater unregulated risk to the community.

October 4, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
MEN’S SOCCER: Bulldogs take down Cornell in Ivy opener

On Saturday, the men’s soccer team defeated the Big Red 1–0 in their first conference match of the season and third consecutive win.

September 30, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
‘A blueprint:’ Union Station set to be ‘greenest train station’ in America

A $9.5 million EPA grant will fund New Haven’s creation of a geothermal system, which will sustainably power Union Station and adjacent housing units.

September 26, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
MEN’S SOCCER: Bulldogs triumph over Bobcats in second win of the season

The men’s soccer team took down Quinnipiac Tuesday afternoon in Hamden, Conn.

September 25, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Drake’s “OVO” clothing brand launches Yale merchandise

The Yale Bookstore and October’s Very Own are selling Yale-licensed apparel.

September 25, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Three tenants unions to bargain with mega-landlord in same week

Tenants unions from three Ocean Management properties have collective bargaining meetings this week with Ocean head Shmulik Aizenberg.

September 23, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Take a walk through Fair Haven — a neighborhood marked by environmental injustice

A new tour series takes participants on a journey through New Haven’s Mill River district, highlighting the environmental impacts of numerous man-made structures in the neighborhood.

September 19, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Nonprofits kickoff first dinner-and-a-movie experience for homeless shelters

Two local nonprofit organizations partnered to serve homeless women and children at the Life Haven shelter a hot dinner paired with a movie fresh out of theaters — the first of many the nonprofits hope to host across the state.

September 17, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Under new leadership, LCI is ramping up housing code enforcement

New Haven’s primary housing code enforcement agency is no longer overseeing affordable housing development. Instead, it will direct its energy towards holding landlords accountable.

September 13, 2024