Thomas Breen
Editor at New Haven Independent
managing editor for @newhavenindy and host of Deep Focus for WNHH-LP
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4 days ago |
newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen
Peg Oliveira stood alongside the mayor and a crowd of New Haveners celebrating the start of Pride Month and watched a rainbow-colored flag rise above the Green. She thought back to 2008, when she and Jen Vickery became the first New Haven same-sex couple to get legally married, by the Amistad statue at City Hall. And she thought back to 2015, when same-sex couples across the nation won that same right to get married, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that is a decade old this month.
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5 days ago |
theinnercitynews.com | Thomas Breen
by Thomas Breen The New Haven independentNew Haven no longer appears on a public list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” targeted for federal-financial punishment by the Trump administration. That’s because that list no longer appears to exist online — as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took it down from its webpage several days after the list was first published.
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5 days ago |
theinnercitynews.com | Thomas Breen
by Thomas Breen The New Haven independentJim Rawlings, a civil rights champion and health equity advocate who spent decades fighting for everything from good jobs for Black New Haveners to investment in research and treatment for those struggling with sickle cell disease, has died at the age of 81. Rawlings passed away on May 25, according to his official obituary, which was posted to the Curvin K. Council Funeral Home’s website on Sunday and which is printed in full below.
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5 days ago |
newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen
The Elicker administration has reached a tentative agreement with the APT Foundation that, if approved by the Board of Alders, would see the city sell a 1.5‑acre plot on Long Wharf to allow for the development of a new 36,000 square-foot medical office building, outpatient treatment facility, and pharmacy.
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5 days ago |
newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen
New Haven no longer appears on a public list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” targeted for federal-financial punishment by the Trump administration. That’s because that list no longer appears to exist online — as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took it down from its webpage several days after the list was first published.
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Real-time signs, new bus shelters, extended service, and other bus system improvements in the works, as detailed by @geucalitto and Rich Andreski of @CTDOTOfficial Read more at @newhavenindy https://t.co/7PvAxvguii
The latest twists and turns in the ongoing saga of Murphy Medical Associates and the Covid-19 pandemic. https://t.co/Nv8ofRTK7N