New Haven Advocate

While You Pay More for Health Care, Insurers Get Richnew

Nationally, the average corporate CEO earned $14.78 million in total compensation in 2006. That same year, the average New Haven resident paid $11,000 in health care premiums.

New Haven Advocate | Betsy Yagla | 12-04-2007 | Business & Labor

Tags: business & labor

Yale's New Secret Societynew

The Yale University Police Department wants all the power of a regular police force, but none of the accountability.

New Haven Advocate | Andy Bromage | 12-04-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Parolees Await Hartford's Next Movenew

Since Gov. Jodi Rell imposed a statewide freeze on paroles for violent offenders in August, Connecticut's prison population has reached an all-time high.

New Haven Advocate | Freda Moon | 12-04-2007 | Crime & Justice

Tags: crime & justice

Who Says There's No Money in Journalism?new

Profit-driven news executives cash in while editors and writers do more with less.

New Haven Advocate | Andy Bromage | 12-04-2007 | Media

Tags: media

Big Media's Big Giftnew

How the FCC is helping media fat cats get more power over what you know.

New Haven Advocate | Evan Brown | 11-27-2007 | Media

Tags: media, FCC

New Haven's Public Housing Vacancy Problemnew

Public housing apartments are breaking faster than New Haven can repair them.

New Haven Advocate | Betsy Yagla | 11-20-2007 | Housing & Development

Tags: housing & development

Some Connecticut Vets Are Falling Between the Cracksnew

If you see an article in your hometown paper welcoming back a local soldier, would you mind calling the Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs? The department might not know he or she is home.

New Haven Advocate | Nick Keppler | 11-20-2007 | War

Tags: war in iraq, Iraq, veterans, Department of Defense, war & peace

Chris Dodd: PAC-Mannew

The senator's presidential campaign is gobbling up corporate cash from Wall Street PACs with the fervor of an arcade game monster.

New Haven Advocate | Freda Moon | 11-20-2007 | Politics

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Chris Dodd

'Military Misdemeanors' Hits its Targetnew

A basic compendium of interesting anecdotes from warfare's brutal past, and enough modern tales of bungling and clandestine savagery to make you want to find a bunker and hide.

New Haven Advocate | Evan Brown | 11-13-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Military Misdemeanors, Terry Crowdy, Nonfiction Reviews

Wall Street Embraces Chris Dodd With Open Walletsnew

Chris Dodd and Hillary Clinton are the only two candidates from either party who've collected 65 percent of their fund-raising dollars from donations of $2,300 or more.

New Haven Advocate | Freda Moon | 11-13-2007 | Politics

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Chris Dodd