DeLauro: I Wish I Could Detail The Trade Deal’s Demerits
Rosa DeLauro said she would love to tell us all the reasons she successfully led a charge to stop President Obama, at least for now, from negotiating a Pacific trade treaty. But if she were to tell us,...
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Big Brother Would Approve Of This “Peace” Hoax
If the necessity to “think outside the box” could ever have a physical manifestation, it would be the golden shipping container called the “Portal” currently hosting visitors to the New Haven Festival...
View ArticleA “Let’s Get It Done” City Recognized For Ebola Campaign
When Mayor Toni Harp asked New Haveners to help the people of Freetown Sierra Leone i in the face of the ebola crisis in that community last year, they responded.Their response produced money to...
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The Meaning Behind The Mountain
Before she moved to the U.S., before her career with 60 Minutes, and before her recent books brought a history to light in sharp and nuanced focus, Roya Hakakian was just a teenager, and on her way to...
View ArticleGhana In The News, The Right Way
From politics to migration to slums, American media tends to focus on the sensational in their coverage African affairs. On this week’s episode of At The Moment, Ghanaian journalist Anny Osabutey spoke...
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City Dems Urge Blumenthal To Back Iran Deal
So far two face-to-face meetings haven’t swayed the senator, so New Haven Democrats Monday tried a last-minute letter.
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The Iranian (IVF) Revolution
Do you know about the Iranian IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) Revolution?
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IRIS Resettles Syrian Refugees
As the U.S. moves cautiously to opening its doors to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing civil war, New Haven’s Integrated Refugee and Immigration Services (IRIS) has resettled four families...
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Omar Made It Here, Hopes Others Can Too
Omar Rajeh was behind the counter at his Mediterranea restaurant on Orange Street when his cell phone rang. The call came from his native Syria.
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HSC Students Ramp Up Refugee Awareness
Sean Nelson brought his phone out in the middle of class—not because he was texting but because he was updating the Instagram account for his social justice club.
View ArticleIndiana Said No; New Haven Said Yes
After Indiana’s governor refused to take in a family of Syrian refugees, New Haven’s Chris George immediately agreed to help. The family— pawns in a national post-Paris ideological argument—has arrived...
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Junta To Refugees: “Welcome Home”
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy got a shout-out Monday from Fair Haven-based Junta for Progressive Action, in support of his controversial decision to welcome a Syrian refugee family to the state after the...
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Terror Hits Home
Over 1,000 people mourned the death of a grandson of a Westville couple, as the current wave of international terrorism touched New Haven.
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IRIS Wins Wessel Prize
Seventy five years ago, a German Jewish teenager who had been sent to safety in England in 1939 on the Kindertransport arrived in New York where she was reunited with her parents. After a brief stay...
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IRIS Wins Wessel Prize
Seventy five years ago, a German Jewish teenager who had been sent to safety in England in 1939 on the Kindertransport arrived in New York where she was reunited with her parents. After a brief stay...
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Penn Pens A Valentine To ... Politics
Penn Rhodeen has grown fond of uttering a dirty word. At a time of brutal, seemingly intractable tribal warfare around the globe, he believes it offers hope for peace.Rhodeen’s dirty word: “politics.”
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Fledgling Health Center Seeks Transfusion
The Marycare Health Center, built with the help of New Haven parishioners on the dream of former St Aedan’s and St Brendan’s assistant pastor Fr. Emmanuel Ihemedu in impoverished areas of Ejemekwuru,...
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Terror Spurs 2nd Thoughts On School Trips
The most recent terror attack in Europe led Board of Education members to vote to reimburse the cost of upcoming international trips this spring to parents having second thoughts about sending their...
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Impressions of India: New Delhi via New Haven
Josiah H. Brown recently traveled to India, where his wife grew up, and returned with these reflections on the New Delhi metropolitan region – from the urban economy and environment to social...
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Revealed: Early Anti-Black Roots Of The Holocaust
In recent years, some in the African-American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as someone else’s nightmare. After all, African-Americans are still...
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