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New Haven Independent | Look Who's Back

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. Look Who’s Back. By Paul Bass June 28, 2006 12:10 PM Permalink. A familiar face was at the Omni this week helping Joe Lieberman line up his support among labor unions. Dunleavy, who’s 50, said his charge is to do “labor, politics and field” for Lieberman. In other words, tend the grassroots that have fueled Lamont’s surprisingly strong challenge. A group seeking to keep Irish, Greek, Ukrainian, and Russian Orthodox voters in the Democr...

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New Haven Independent | Gloves Passed On

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. By Melissa Bailey May 13, 2009 11:18 AM Permalink. Quincy Rivera hit the heavy bags with his dad, as the next generation of boxers got their start at New Haven’s newest gym. But word has gotten out, and new boxers have been showing up every day. Some know Rosa for his day-to-day work with kids as a coach at the Hamden Boxing program. Others know him as the young trainer who transformed Elvin Ayala. At half past four one recent afternoo...

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New Haven Independent | Opie Takes On DaRos Again

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New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. Opie Takes On DaRos Again. By Marcia Chambers July 23, 2009 7:54 AM Permalink. John Opie (pictured) accepted the Republican nomination for first selectman at the party’s convention this week. But his own words left little doubt that his effort to regain his former job would be an uphill battle. Opie faces incumbent Democratic First Selectman Unk DaRos. Schwanfelder (pictured), who attended the meeting Tuesday night in order to nominate his old friend Denha...

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New Haven Independent | Box Banned

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. By Melissa Bailey February 18, 2009 8:03 AM Permalink. After aldermen approved a landmark prison reentry law, advocates headed off to spread the word — to ex-cons in need of a job and to the 13,000 city vendors directed to give them a second chance. To read the ordinance. 8220;We’re going to hit the barber shops, the hair salons, and let everybody know that Ban the Box went through,” Tyrone Weston. On the aldermanic floor, Fair Haven A...

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New Haven Independent | Wind Power Advances

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. By Allan Appel July 17, 2008 7:41 AM Permalink. A 60 to 100-foot tall wind turbine may soon be rising on this site at Long Wharf — or else across town at the dump. The commissioners were being asked to give their blessing to aldermanic acceptance of two wind turbines to be installed in the city as part of the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund (CCEF)’s pilot project. Click here. However, City Engineer Richard Miller had another suggestion&#...

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New Haven Independent | "The Muslim Trainer" Signs Books, Offers Weight-Loss Tips

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. 8220;The Muslim Trainer” Signs Books, Offers Weight-Loss Tips. By Nicole Allan April 23, 2007 1:15 PM Permalink. In the past two years, when Mubarakah Ibrahim wasn’t leading a fitness boot camp, tending to her four children, teaching yoga at her fitness studio, or chatting with Oprah, she was writing a book. The Ten Commandments, actually. Of weight loss. Ibrahim’s book,. To check out the website for Balance Fitness. May 9, 2007 4:13 AM.

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New Haven Independent | Lamont Fires Up Naples

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. Lamont Fires Up Naples. By Paul Bass April 5, 2006 11:02 PM Permalink. The Deaniacs and the bloggers who launched Ned Lamont watched, videotaped and applauded Wednesday night as their man (above) brought his red-hot challenge to Joe Lieberman to New Haven’s Naples Pizza. Lamont energized a crowd of about 100 people squeezed into Naples’ back room for a pizza and candidate meet-up organized by the area’s Democracy for America. Has emerg...

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New Haven Independent | A Comeback, Live In (House) Concert

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. A Comeback, Live In (House) Concert. By Paul Bass February 12, 2007 11:11 AM Permalink. Can you identify the language this woman’s singing in? Read on to find out — and to hear about (and just plain hear) a comeback concert in an East Rock living room for a nationally touring folkie who spent three years in New Haven recharging her creative battery. The singer/ songwriter’s name is Allette Brooks. The three-year hiatus — Brooks c...

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New Haven Independent | Prozac Nation, Elm City Edition

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. Prozac Nation, Elm City Edition. By Mark Oppenheimer April 11, 2008 12:03 PM Permalink. 8220;I’m Jewish, I’m blond, and there are things I can do that no one has tried.”. Subscribe to the Podcast. Get the Flash Player. To see this player. So says Elizabeth Wurtzel, speaking about her abandoned fantasy of solving all the problems in the Middle East. The author of the mega-best-seller Prozac Nation. As well as Bitch. And More, Now, Again.

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New Haven Independent | Strong Black Women Mentor Their Younger Selves

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New Haven Crime Log. New Haven Independent.org. News Tips and Photos. Strong Black Women Mentor Their Younger Selves. By Melinda Tuhus December 29, 2009 9:24 AM Permalink. Dymin Ellis (pictured) was wearing half a dozen strong black women role models on her T-shirt. At an all-day conference on Monday, she met that many more in person. Ellis was one of three dozen girls who spent part or all day at Hillhouse High School for the first-ever Sisters of Today and Tomorrow. Conference in New Haven. The day inc...