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JOSE DAVILA IV
Students pen open letter on Yale’s COVID-19 response

A mixed group of Yale undergrads, graduate students and recent alums have penned an open letter to the Yale administration urging the University to take […]

April 7, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Hotel deal to house homeless falls through

The Elm City’s weeks-long effort to transfer New Haven’s homeless from shelters and streets to hotel rooms was supposed to be nearly complete by Monday. […]

April 7, 2020

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MACKENZIE HAWKINS
City expands COVID-19 noncompliance reporting

Amid complaints from residents that some New Haven businesses are not complying with public health directives, Mayor Justin Elicker and Health Director Maritza Bond announced […]

April 7, 2020

TALIA SOGLIN
Legal services help children and youth affected by pandemic

Although children seem to be relatively invulnerable to the worst health effects of COVID-19 — a silver lining as the virus shuts down public life […]

April 3, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Alders pass COVID-19 resolutions, indemnification order

In a meeting moved up from its original April 6 scheduled date, the Board of Alders on Thursday unanimously passed four COVID-19 resolutions and granted […]

April 3, 2020

MEERA SHOAIB
Yale rabbi assaulted and robbed outside Chabad House

Around 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Rabbi Shua Rosenstein stepped outside the Alice L. Bender Chabad House at Yale to make a phone call when he […]

April 3, 2020

MEERA SHOAIB
Elm City public safety departments face pandemic

Despite modified services and stringent sanitation measures, first responders in New Haven are seeing the consequences of COVID-19 exposure and preparing for future challenges. In […]

April 1, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS & CHARLOTTE ZIMMER
Connecticut National Guard erects overflow site at SCSU

Anticipating an overwhelming of the state’s hospital system, Gov. Ned Lamont deployed the Connecticut National Guard on Monday to convert Southern Connecticut State University’s campus […]

March 31, 2020

MICHELLE LI
New Haven businesses adapt to coronavirus pandemic

Earlier this month, New Haven joined New York and New Jersey in mandating restaurants to limit their services to take-out and delivery in response to […]

March 31, 2020

MACKENZIE HAWKINS
Yale comes under fire at budget meeting

In place of the standing-room-only budget meetings normally held in the Board of Alders Chamber, New Haven residents filled the city’s Zoom budget meeting to […]

March 31, 2020

ROSE HOROWITCH & MEERA SHOAIB
Activists protest conditions in ICE detention centers

For thousands of individuals detained in ICE custody, social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic is impossible. Last Thursday, New Haven-based immigration rights group Unidad Latina […]

March 31, 2020