by Karla Ciaglo CTNewsJunkieCTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As subfreezing temperatures strain shelters and warming centers across Connecticut, state lawmakers and shelter service providers warned that the state’s homelessness system is operating beyond capacity, leaving thousands exposed to life-threatening conditions and prompting calls for expanded housing and prevention funding. The Connecticut Coalition...

by Karla Ciaglo CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — As subfreezing temperatures strain shelters and warming centers across Connecticut, state lawmakers and shelter service providers warned that the state’s homelessness system is operating beyond capacity, leaving thousands exposed to life-threatening conditions and prompting calls for expanded housing and prevention funding. The Connecticut Coalition...

by Mark Oppenheimer The New Haven independent (Opinion) It is almost perverse, given the sheer poundage of snow accumulated outside my house, to pick this moment to talk about swimming in the summer months. But because the city is currently deliberating plans to convert the former English Station power plant,...

by Barth Keck, Contributing Columnist Greek philosopher Aristotle was a master orator who understood the power of words. To that end, he developed what became known as the “Aristotelian triangle” in which he identified three specific ways a speaker can appeal to an audience: logos, ethos, and pathos. As a writer,...

Lucy Gellman CTNewsJunkie Henry Mead didn’t know which poem to begin with. In front of him, words spilled out over the paper, tangles of language parsed into neat lines. He looked over the audience, searching for something. One poem, he explained, was kind of gritty. The other, sweet. On the page...

To Morse Hall, with her Baldwin-inspired Grammy-winning "No More Water." Meshell Ndegeocello. Meshell NdegeocelloMorse Recital HallFeb. 6, 2026New Haven Halfway through Mehsell Ndegeocello's Friday performance of No More Water — her Grammy-winning 2024 album of songs inspired by and contending with the work of writer and civil rights luminary James Baldwin —at...