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Survival Is No Joke

4 weeks ago | theinnercitynews.com | Boris Fishman |Paul Bass

by Paul BassThe UnwantedBy Boris FishmanHarper330 pagesI forgot to laugh when I read Boris Fishman’s new novel about a family escaping civil war and totalitarianism. Throughout The Unwanted, I read about a mother selling her body in exchange for her daughter’s escape to freedom. I held my breath as a family paid the last of their savings to bribe their way onto a boat headed out of a civil war and into a refugee camp. I wiped tears from my eyes — but they weren’t tears of laughter.
Arrested Pol Builds Marriage Biz | CT News Junkie

Nov 8, 2024 | ctnewsjunkie.com | Paul Bass

NEW HAVEN, CT – Wanda Geter-Pataky found a way to supplement her income while on paid leave from her Bridgeport city job and facing criminal charges for ballot fraud: Bring crews of out-of-state non-citizens to marry as many as 100-plus Americans a month at New Haven City Hall. One recent day, for instance, Geter-Pataky conducted seven such marriages in New Haven City Hall. All seven involved an Indian-born spouse and an American-born spouse.
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Nov 8, 2024 | ctnewsjunkie.com | Paul Bass |Laura Glesby |Brian Scott-Smith |Doug Hardy

NEW HAVEN, CT – Wanda Geter-Pataky found a way to supplement her income while on paid leave from her Bridgeport city job and facing criminal charges for ballot fraud: Bring crews of out-of-state non-citizens to marry as many as 100-plus Americans a month at New Haven City Hall. One recent day, for instance, Geter-Pataky conducted seven such marriages in New Haven City Hall. All seven involved an Indian-born spouse and an American-born spouse.
Dems Sweep City State Legislative Races

Nov 6, 2024 | theinnercitynews.com | Arthur Delot-Vilain |Paul Bass

by ARTHUR DELOT-VILAIN and PAUL BASS The biggest not-surprise Tuesday night: Democrats captured all New Haven’s state legislative seats in the election. As they have for decades. Three incumbents faced GOP opponents Tuesday: All three crushed them.
Ballot Q: 'No Excuses' = More Democracy? | CT News Junkie

Oct 14, 2024 | ctnewsjunkie.com | Paul Bass

If you no longer have to lie about needing to vote absentee — would that cut down on fraud? Or, conversely, would no-excuses absentee balloting enable campaign workers to pressure more senior citizens and other voters in the privacy of their homes not to make a choice in privacy? Connecticut might soon find out the answer to those questions. On Nov.
Street Attacks On Homeless Reported On Rise | CT News Junkie

Oct 3, 2024 | ctnewsjunkie.com | Paul Bass

Teens have started jumping out of cars and attacking homeless people sleeping on the street in Fair Haven, according to a veteran street outreach worker. The outreach worker, Phil Costello, reported that he has encountered six people injured in attacks in the past two weeks. “A group of kids will pull up next to a homeless person sleeping on the street and attack them and actually beat them. There isn’t any rhyme or reason, and the attacks seem to be random on whoever is on the street at night.
Yale, New Haven Launch A Quantum Leap | CT News Junkie

Oct 1, 2024 | ctnewsjunkie.com | Paul Bass

A mystery letter “Q” lapel pin whispered a dream about New Haven’s future at a groundbreaking Monday afternoon for a project that will transform Yale’s campus at the border of the East Rock neighborhood. Officials at the event broke symbolic ground on the first lab and classroom building of a 600,000 square-foot “Upper Science Hill” expansion on Whitney Avenue.
Kamalapalooza Flips Convention Scriptc

Aug 23, 2024 | theinnercitynews.com | Paul Bass

by PAUL BASS The new haven independentNew Haven delegate Audrey Tyson invites U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro to join her in dancing to Stevie Wonder performing on night 3. Chicago — Beyonce never performed as rumored at the United Center Thursday night — but Kamala Harris did.
Kamalapalooza Flips Convention Script | CT News Junkie

Aug 23, 2024 | ctnewsjunkie.com | Paul Bass

CHICAGO – Beyonce never performed as rumored on the final night of the Democratic National Convention – but Kamala Harris did. Harris received a pop star’s reception as she delivered an acceptance speech as the first-ever Asian-American and Black female Democratic Party presidential nominee, at a convention that marked a new era in political conventions as political theater.
“Content Creators” Crash Convention, Supplant “The Press”

Aug 23, 2024 | theinnercitynews.com | Paul Bass

by PAUL BASS The new haven independentChicago — Legendary presidential campaign journalists Theodore H. White and Hunter S. Thompson didn’t live to cover the 2024 Democratic National Convention here. If they had, they might have found their bylines buried by a digital whiz called TizzyEnt who started building his seven-plus-million-strong audience with beer jokes and lip-synching videos.