Noah Daponte-Smith
Staff Columnist
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Harp lauds Elm City “transformation”

A month after beginning her second term at the helm of New Haven’s city government, Mayor Toni Harp touted the progress the city has made over the past two years.

Ward 1 selects new co-chairs

Four months after securing the Ward 1 alder seat against a Republican challenger, the Ward 1 Democratic Committee is inaugurating two new co-chairs, both of whom are Yale students.

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Meet Me in the City

I heard somewhere or other that the most common word — aside from the banal ones, like “the” or “I” — in the Bruce Springsteen’s is “street.”

Elm City advocates set agenda for 2016

A group of community activists and New Haven residents gathered in City Hall Tuesday night to set an agenda for civic-advocacy projects throughout 2016. The […]

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City officials revisit Hill development plans

In early December, a negative vote from the Board of Alders put an ambitious set of plans to transform The Hill on ice. But on Monday night, a group of alders and community leaders met in City Hall to see if the plans might have life after all.

City weathers major storm

As a potentially historic winter storm bears down on the East Coast, the National Weather Service has issued a blizzard warning for the New Haven area in effect until Sunday morning.

Controversy surrounds BOE membership

When voters approved a set of revisions to the New Haven City Charter in November 2013, they thought it would lead to a Board of Education with the standard seven voting members beginning this year. Instead, it resulted in eight.

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State on track to eliminate homelessness

Connecticut is well on its way to eliminating chronic homelessness in 2016, Gov. Dannel Malloy announced during a press conference in New Haven earlier this month.

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CT residents debate Amtrak plans

Commuters along the East Coast have long complained of Amtrak’s poor service and spotty on-time record. Two months after the Federal Railroad Administration released a slate […]

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HUD chief visits Elm City

Castro’s visit to New Haven, where he was accompanied by Connecticut Sens. Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and Chris Murphy, came in the middle of a daylong sweep through Connecticut that also included stops in Hartford and Bridgeport.

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Malloy to impose gun restrictions

Gov. Dannel Malloy announced Thursday that he intends to sign an executive order that would ban individuals on federal terrorist watch lists from purchasing firearm permits in the state of Connecticut.

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