The Gap, one of the cornerstones of Chapel Street, Joel Schiavone-cum-Bruce Alexander style gentrification, is closing. Combined with the recent press fallout over the closing of Barrie Ltd. Booters, and the implications of YNHH trustees involvement with the controversial plans for the demutualization of the New Haven Savings Bank, (see here for CCNE's hard hitting report and here for a great Paul Bass article from the Advocate) this higlights the extent to which Yale's much propaganda-ed model for "contributing to a stronger new haven" is in crisis. We seem to be witnessing the collapse of this trickle-down economics of unequal partnership. The consequences for working (and unemployed) New Haveners will be dire unless we invent a new way of envisioning the way this city works. Whether that entails making Yale pay, or fundamentally remaking Yale, or just smashing Yale, the state, and the New Haven Lawn Club too, you can decide for yourselves.

The YDN reports that Bobby Proto plans to convene a subcommittee of workers to investigatre fining non-strikers. Shinzong Lee, who wrote the article, and Jessica Feinstein, who contributed to it, confuse readers (or maybe are themselves confused) about whether this is something that is being done by 35 or by both locals. The story also wasn't reported by either the register or the herald, so i'm not quite sure what to make of it.
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