by Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser | Sep 18, 2008 | News
Robert Tobey has been an eye for the Advocate family since he began working for the New Haven Advocate 31 years ago. "In 1977, I worked as a staff photographer and also wrote music reviews," Tobey recalls. "It was a real lifesaving job at the...
by Stephanie Kraft | Sep 18, 2008 | News
Here's something you should know when you start to evaluate John McCain's energy policy: he doesn't believe a massive changeover to renewable, really clean power is possible. This is what McCain said at a town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H. last December...
by Tom Vannah | Sep 18, 2008 | News
About a year ago, we were summoned to Hartford, to a meeting with the publishers. We were given homework: write a mission statement for our respective newspapers.By we, I mean the editors of the four newspapers in the Advocate chain. (That chain was broken with the...
by Mark Roessler | Sep 18, 2008 | News
"The business of a newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable."The above maxim, adopted by many in alternative publishing, originated as part of a satire written by a Chicago Tribune writer in the early 1900s. He meant it as a...
by Mark Anderson | Sep 18, 2008 | News
My story at the Valley Advocate begins, like so many good journalism stories, with a simple proposition: free food. I had grown up in the Twin Cities (far, far superior to the riot-cops-'n'-rich-whiteys impression suggested by coverage of the recent Republican...
