COMMUNITY LIFE
ADAM WALKER
Interdisciplinary graduate course set to yield four two-family homes in Newhallville

The course, first taught in the fall of 2022, is a collaboration between Yale Law School, the School of Architecture and the School of Management.

April 3, 2024

TYSON ODERMANN
University of New Haven workers authorize strike, hold protest

After weeks of contract negotiations, workers represented by Union UNITE Here Local 217 authorized a strike to secure stronger job security protections.

April 3, 2024

NATASHA KHAZZAM
Ocean Management’s unusual property transfers may be defrauding tenants

Coupled with Ocean’s history of housing code violations and tenant complaints, public records suggest that the mega-landlord may be conducting fraudulent property transfers to avoid liability to tenants.

April 2, 2024

BROOKLYN BRAUNER
International Festival of Arts and Ideas releases summer lineup

The festival is celebrating its 29th anniversary with a two-week, jam-packed schedule.

April 2, 2024

YURII STASIUK & ARIELA LOPEZ
Crossing the aisle: Joe Lieberman’s road from Kennedy Democrat to Connecticut Independent

Friends and colleagues recall the late Connecticut senator’s political career from the Yale Daily News to the presidential campaign trail.

April 1, 2024

NATHANIEL ROSENBERG
New Haven churches plan for busy Easter Season

Churches in New Haven are offering worship services to celebrate Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

March 29, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Urban Resources Initiative plants first of 1,000 new trees

Thanks to a $2.6 million grant, the URI will be planting 1,000 trees per year for the next five years, the first of which was planted Monday morning.

March 28, 2024

ADAM MCPHAIL
Government officials celebrate opening of Peabody Museum

Mayor Elicker and Superintendent Madeline Negrón emphasized the importance of the museum’s new free entrance and expressed optimism about the collaboration between the Peabody, New Haven Public Schools and the larger New Haven community.

March 27, 2024

ADAM WALKER
PROFILE: Michael Braham’s journey from prison to law school

Through Yale Law School’s Access to Law School Program, Braham — who was incarcerated for 25 years — is set to attend law school in the fall.

March 25, 2024

LAURA OSPINA
Yale Community Kitchen faces funding shortage, concerns over long-term viability 

The head coordinators for the student service organization, which provides dinner for hundreds of New Haven residents every weekend, said that rising costs and a lack of avenues to increase Yale funding may hinder the organization’s 20-year history of serving the New Haven community.

March 8, 2024

ARIELA LOPEZ & LILY BELLE POLING
Environmental policy hearing urges new city priorities: pesticides, artificial turf, electrification

EAC Chair Laura Cahn urged the city to strengthen its policy regarding pesticides and artificial turf at the Board of Alders’ Community Services and Environmental Policy Committee meeting on Thursday. A representative from the New Haven Climate Movement and Steve Winter, director of the Office of Climate and Sustainability, also discussed the city’s progress towards electrification.

March 8, 2024