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What's Art Got to Do With Massachusetts' Casino Gamble?

New Haven Advocate | October 2, 2007

Casinos do add jobs and tourism, but they also stomp on industry elsewhere -- Connecticut concert halls and stadiums have seen all the best touring acts get sucked up by the deep-pocketed Mohegan Sun.

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Tags: Economic Issues

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Q&A: Connecticut’s Budget Crisisnew

The CT legislature passed a months-overdue two-year budget last August, but eight months later the state is already $500 million in debt this year.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 04-13-2010 | Politics

Tags: Jodi Rell

Broadway's Next Big Hit Starts Now with the World Premiere of New Musical 'POP!'new

POP!, the Andy Warhol musical that's world-premiering at the Yale Repertory Theatre this month, takes place as a fever dream inside Warhol's head after the famed artist is shot inside his cavernous work studio The Factory on June 3, 1968.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 12-08-2009 | Theater

Tags: pop icons, Warhol, Drama, pop art, Edie Sedgwick, Yale

Tom Tomorrow Creates a Kids Book! Yay!new

"I love stepping outside the world of politics, that negativity, so I can do something happy," Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, says in a phone interview from his New Haven work studio.

New Haven Advocate | Christopher Arnott | 10-13-2009 | Author Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dan Perkins, The Very Silly Mayor, children's books, Tom Tomorrow

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The Barter Economy Chugs Along While Paying Jobs Remain Hard to Come Bynew

Welcome to the bartering economy, a system of no-money trading that experts say is booming in Connecticut and across the globe. It turns out to be one area that the Great Recession has actually helped.

New Haven Advocate | Gregory B. Hladky | 09-27-2012 | Business & Labor

Tags: jobs

What Mowing Your Lawn Is Doing To The Planetnew

Americans reportedly dump more than 80 million pounds of pesticides and other chemicals onto their lawns and gardens every year. Aside from the potential risks for people and animals coming into direct contact with this toxic crap, pesticides get washed into streams and rivers, ending up as marine pollution.

New Haven Advocate | Gregory B. Hladky | 05-24-2011 | Environment

Tags: Pesticides, Lawn Care, Weed Killers

Medical Marijuana Closer to Legalization in CTnew

Rhode Island and New Jersey aren’t often put in the beacons-of-light category, but Connecticut is right now looking to those two states to help illuminate the tricky pathway toward state-sanctioned growing and sale of medical marijuana.

New Haven Advocate | Gregory B. Hladky | 04-26-2011 | Drugs

Tags: Medicinal Marijuana in Connecticut