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NEW LONDON (AP) — Fifteen houses are all that remain of Fort Trumbull, a once vibrant immigrant neighborhood flattened into expanses of rutted grass and gravel. The homes stand in defiance of New London's plan to pave the way for a riverfront hotel and convention center, offices and upscale condominiums. Refusing the city's efforts to get them to leave, seven families are going before the U.S. Supreme Court tomorrow, arguing that the city has no right to take their private property solely for economic development. The rebellious homeowners include an elderly Italian immigrant, a mechanic and a former deli owner....

Claire Gaudiani- President Connecticut College and the New London Development Corporation Academy Institute as Citizens for Justice Santa Clara University As I listened to Reverend Father Kohlvenbach last night, I know we could all hear Christ’s voice in Reverend Father’s call to do something about the cries of the poor, beyond simply sympathizing. The growing economic wealth in our world is a joy, but also a danger. I was pleased to hear him to call for changes in the structures of society and new partnerships between education and social activity. The concerns he shared with us last night are part...

NEW LONDON, Conn. -- When it all started in 1997, Claire Gaudiani was the president of Connecticut College, a specialist in French literature and philanthropy who had become a flamboyant and fabulously successful fund-raiser at the pricey school on a hill overlooking this economically depressed old whaling port. She saw it as her social obligation to spearhead an ambitious redevelopment plan - a Pfizer pharmaceutical headquarters anchoring a waterfront hotel, upscale new housing, and retail and office space - that would revitalize the city's tax base and give hope to those less fortunate. "It was a very idealistic vision," said...

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Despite Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell's suggested moratorium on eminent domain cases in the state, pending the consideration of new legislation restriction property seizures by local governments, the city of New London has issued eviction notices to homeowners who lost their case before the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Kelo v. the City of New London ruling. "They have sent us eviction letters and have given us 90 days to vacate," homeowner Michael Cristofaro told WND. "As further insult to injury, they are requiring us to send them $600-a-month rent." He said the city...

The chair of the Connecticut College history department, Catherine McNicol Stock, has suggested that Sarah Palin is somehow associated with Pacific Northwest hate groups such as Posse Comitatus and the Aryan Nations. Her proof? Well, because Palin lived in areas with low "diversity." I kid you not. Here is the professor's "learned thesis" presented in a Philadelphia Inquirer opinion column melodramatically titled, "Intolerance thrives in Palin's Pacific Northwest" (emphasis mine): Despite her efforts to portray herself as an average, small-town, "folksy" American, Sarah Palin's political views - ardently pro-gun, pro-censorship, antichoice and antigay - make John McCain's conservative credentials pale...

The Zionist Organization of America of Connecticut College will be sponsoring Ishmael Khaldi at Connecticut College on Monday, March 8th at 7PM. This will be held in Ernst Common Room located in Blaustein Humanities Center (which is the building on the left of the library when you face the library). The topic of the lecture will be “One man's story of Israel's culture, society & politics from the perspective of a Bedouin minority in a Jewish state.” Ishmael Khaldi has spoken to thousands of college students and community groups on the details of the unique coalition of the Israeli Bedouin...

In last Saturday’s New York Times, op-ed contributor Dr. Rhonda Garelick, an Associate Professor of French and Italian at Connecticut College, openly laments that today’s female college students just aren’t as interested in being politically indoctrinated by the radical left as those of generations past. She uses a discussion of the film, “Mona Lisa Smile”, as a basis on which to expound upon current conditions in the classroom. Dr. Garelick finds feminist consciousness to be all too rare in today’s female undergraduates. This article is very valuable as it showcases they way in which our universities remain under the ironclad...

The Zionist Organization of America of Connecticut College will be sponsoring Dr. Yossi Olmert at Connecticut College on Tuesday, September 23rd at 7PM. This will be held in Ernst Common Room located in Blaustein Humanities Center (which is the building on the left of the library when you face the library). The topic will be “Israel and the USA Fight Terror: Mutual target, Mutual enemy.” This event is in association with the Anti-Defamation League’s Laurel Vlock Campus Lecture Series and the Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut. Dr. Yossi Olmert is an authority on Israeli Politics, the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Radical...

Me and my conservative friend, as in every week, will be having our radio show tonight at 11PM, WED, until midnight. We are on our college (Connecticut College) radio station. If you are around New London, CT you can tune into 91.1FM If you are far away you can listen to online using realplayer at: Click Here (You need realplayer)We will be discussing the Israeli-Arab conflict and the "roadmap" to "peace". We will be having 1 conservative and 1 liberal (who has Palestinian Arab links) on. Please Listen in! Thanks Yoni Freeman