Evelyn Ronan
Larry Lunden News InternEvelyn Ronan is the Larry Lunden News Intern at Connecticut Public. Evelyn is a student at Yale University, where she is pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy.
She is also a beat reporter and podcast editor for the Yale Daily News. Evelyn hails from Chicago and has previously worked in newsrooms in New Orleans and Sacramento.
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The city is considering adopting a proposed ordinance that specifically cracks down on home-shares in properties that are not the owner’s primary residence and offer stays for less than 30 days. The ordinance advanced 5-2 and will be voted on by the full Board of Alders next month. -
Local tenants accused the online vacation rental marketplace of price-gouging residents and shuffling them outside city limits. City legislators presented a proposed short-term rental ordinance, which would ban non-owner-occupied rentals of 30 days or less if the property is not the operator's primary residence. -
McQueen said her portrayal of Ma required meticulous research and an acceptance of a wide emotional register so Ma didn’t read as just agitated or angry. McQueen also said it was difficult to toe the line with trusting her audience. -
The rally arrives in conjunction with the release of Local 34 and 35’s “Artificial University” report; a detailed chronology of Yale’s implementation of AI job tools in white-collar clerical and technical work that the union claims threatens the workforces that are the bedrock of the University. -
The expo brought together organizations dedicated to helping former inmates secure housing and full-time work. -
The “No Kings” movement made a return Saturday across Connecticut and the country. -
Mayor Justin Elicker addressed residents in a Thursday news conference where he outlined priorities for the upcoming fiscal year. Elicker said he would focus on the “challenges” facing the city’s public schools, including backlogged maintenance requests, and continue chipping away at the city’s overdue pension funds. -
When Bassett attended Yale in the early 80s, The David Geffen School of Drama ,was primarily producing work by prolific white American and European playwrights like Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Chekhov. Vance says there were few opportunities for Black actors and even fewer stagings of work by Black writers. -
The city’s Board of Alders Education Committee held a public meeting Tuesday, which had a near five-hour runtime. School employees, parents and faculty packed the pews of City Hall brandishing photos of broken, mold or dilapidated equipment in their classrooms. -
Kosta Diamantis, Connecticut’s former deputy budget director and director of school construction funding who's now a fugitive in Greece, was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in Bridgeport.
