Ed Stannard's Hartford Courant stories

Why so much idiocy and hate?

CT city leaders condemn Palestinian flag stuck into public menorah Clergy of multiple faiths, politicians and others condemned a protester inserting a Palestinian flag inserted into a menorah.

I’m sorry, folks, that this page is not active. The stories are behind a payroll, so unless you are subscriber to the Hartford Courant, he would not be able to read them. So it doesn’t seem worth it to find the URL and post it.

COVID will only get worse. How much worse depends on us.

Yale New Haven's top doctor sees coronavirus peak hitting in four weeks Dr. Thomas Balcezak said a negative COVID test does not guarantee a person won’t be contagious within days if they were recently infected.

Yale New Haven accepting donor hearts for transplant after the donor is taken off life support and is pronounced dead, rather than waiting for brain death.

Yale docs 'doing it for the heart': Technology brings more transplants with shorter wait Yale New Haven Hospital is participating in a clinical trial for a heart-preserving system that increases the number of hearts for transplant.

Yale computer science students developed an app to allow children isolated in different homes to play with a robot in one of the locations.

You can't come over, but we can play with the robot, thanks to Yale students Yale computer science students realized children needed something to get them through the pandemic. Their app allows two to play, each in their own homes.

Happy Juneteenth!

Slavery in Connecticut, ended only in 1848, had a long history Enslaved people, slave traders and abolitionists were all part of Connecticut history, with slavery flourishing as late as 1800.

In the things are more complicated than they may seem department:

Yale students see divestment as a must, but its effectiveness is uncertain

A fun story about one of New Haven's treasures, with Frank Carrano 's son included for a couple of reasons!

See Peabody dinosaurs before year-end; museum closing for 3 years in June

Both people in this story were great to talk to. Both are upbeat, optimistic people who believe in a better future.

Homeless Yale alum sees bright life ahead after 'angel' finds him After CNN interviewed a homeless Yale alumnus, a fellow Yalie found him and helped Shawn Pleasants into rehab and a new life.

I worked on my day off to contribute to our coverage of the protest at the Yale-Harvard game. There's much more on our website.

Weeks of planning, training in nonviolence, decoy, led to Yale-Harvard protest A protest at The Game by hundreds of Yale and Harvard students and alumni against the universities’ investment policies ended weeks of planning.

This was my Sunday story about the state of the bridge I've been covering since the foundations were drilled. The DOT says the many cracks were somewhat expected and none affects the safety of the bridge.

Q bridge rated 'fair' because of thousands of small cracks The first inspection of the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge found hundreds of small cracks. Many must be sealed to keep water from infiltrating the bridge.

My story today is about a neighborhood, where many of the best stories come from. The problem of having a lot of cars registered out of state goes further than taking up parking spaces. It symbolizes major revenue loss for the city, which isn't enforcing the law and collecting property taxes.

Neighbors say out-of-state cars clog block, avoiding New Haven taxes Residents of City Point say a First Street man owns multiple cars that are registered out of state, taking up parking spots and avoiding taxes.

The Greater New Haven community has lost one of its leading proponents of interfaith understanding.

Imam Hasan dies at 83, leaves legacy of peace, interfaith relations Imam Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan, who died Monday, was a leader of the region’s Muslim community and a tireless advocate for interfaith dialogue.

Sarah Braasch finally had her say yesterday. It was a 10-hour day for me!

Yale student who called police on a black student says video exonerates her Sarah Braasch, who called Yale police to report a black graduate student was sleeping in the dorm, said Monday she had been harassed by students.

My second story in today's paper, about a group of lawyers who are calling out the president on what they see as his underming of the rule of law in this country.

Yale lecturer among lawyers who signed letter against Trump's actions More than 800 lawyers have signed an open letter criticizing President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media, courts and other institutions and defending the Constitution.

This story in today's New Haven Register was inspired by the medical director of Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, who mentioned the issue when I interviewed him for last week's story.

Costly suicide-prevention measures may not increase hospital safety While there are few suicides in inpatient psychiatric units, the facilities are required to spend millions to ensure patients can’t try to harm themselves.

I've been neglectful of this page since I started it. This is the follow-up story, published last week, about the mentally ill man who was arrested at Yale New Haven Hospital and died (ruled a homicide) in the New haven jail.

Mom blames loss of psychiatric hospital beds for West Haven man's death The mother of a man who died in jail after a hospital refused to admit him blames closing of psychiatric hospitals for his death.

I woke up Monday to a text from my editor, "Read your email please Need you in early." The Hartford Courant had reported that a man had been brought from the New Haven jail to the hospital, where he was already in rigor mortis. Well, he was in "rigor," which I was told later in the day isn't the same thing. But it's still a tragedy, and I will have a story this weekend following up on the case. This story, unlike most that I post to this group, was posted on our free site, so you may have read it.

West Haven man, arrested at hospital, dies in New Haven jail Carl Robert Talbot, who was bipolar, was arrested after pulling a hospital fire alarm. Two days later he died in his jail cell.

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