In Opinions
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"Healthy From Day One" Gains Momentum
You’ve heard of dialing 9-1-1 in a police emergency.
And there used to be, in New Haven, a 3-1-1 non-emergency number for city services from fixing potholes to figuring out the mystery of an abandoned boat beside the roadway. (Then SeeClickFix replaced it for city offices.)
Now there’s 2-1-1 to provide new streamlined access, resources, and connecting young parents to what they specifically need for kids — and their families — to be healthy in the developmentally crucial early years of life.
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Pedestrian Walkways Planned
Yale University plans to convert portions of two Downtown city streets that it purchased from the city five years ago into 18-foot-wide pedestrian walkways lined with shrubs and flowers.
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State Fines Trash Operator $18,700
The operator of a controversial Middletown Avenue transfer station promises to clean up its act and pay an $18,700 fine under a consent order with the state.
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Cops' Phone Line Down
The police department’s non-emergency phone line (203-946-6316) is not working Tuesday morning.
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Amazon Begins Delivering Packages To The Trunk Of Your Car
Announcements and leaks about new Amazon products and programs have been dropping almost daily as CEO Jeff Bezos is presumably pulling out all the stops to ensure that he remains the world's richest man.
Yesterday, it was a report about Amazon's "top secret" project to build its next blockbuster consumer product: A robotic home assistant that conjured up comparisons to Rosie from "the Jetsons".
Today, the company announced a partnership with GM and Volvo to use the "Internet of Things"...
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Sen. Joe Donnelly attacks fellow Democrat Tom Perez for Trump lawsuit
Tom Perez isn’t popular with red state Democrats right now.
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Nancy Pelosi tells students not to shut down campus speakers
The top House Democrat's comments put her among a group of other leading liberals who have drawn a line at so-called "no-platforming" efforts.
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How we reach consensus on Trump’s guilt or innocence
Impeachment requires extremely compelling evidence -- and a lot of it.
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Democrats are swinging for the fences
A federal job guarantee is the latest proposal that shows their ambition.
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Milo Yiannopoulos and the far-left's ironic Nazi problem
The far-left are behaving like Nazis.
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South Korea Turns Off Giant Wall Of Loudspeakers Aimed At North Korea
Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com,
South Korea has turned off its propaganda loudspeakers today as a gesture of goodwill ahead of Friday’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. This is the first time in over two years that South Korea has shut off the loudspeakers, aimed at North Korea.
South Korea’s giant walls of loudspeakers broadcast “news reports” boasting of their prosperity, aiming it at both North Korean border troops and villages near the border. They occasionally play music...
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UK judge holds new hearing over sick toddler Alfie Evans
A British judge heard a new appeal Tuesday from the parents of a terminally ill British toddler who want to take him to Italy for treatment — something British courts have ruled isn't in the child's interest. The Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting the parents of 23-month-old Alfie...