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The next time Dr. Edison advertises his computer fix-it business or the Upper State Street Association announces its farmers market on a public utility pole, one lawmaker wants them to pony up some money before loading their staple guns.

Charlie Pillsbury said he had hoped a younger Green Party member would emerge to try to unseat U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro this November. No such luck. So he’s dusting off his 2002 campaign signs, calling for a 70 percent military budget cut, and throwing his hat—gently—into the ring.

When she got her new appointment to run the Metropolitan Business Academy, Principal Judy Puglisi had just six weeks to get ready for the first students to arrive at school. She packed her bags, took seven staffers in tow, and set to work on a new program for freshmen.

In a garden tucked between two industrial buildings on James Street, Wanda Albandoz filled up a crate of organic kale, string beans, basil, and tomatoes for her family—produce that she had a hand in growing. Meanwhile, Albandoz has lost 30 pounds in five months.

Years after it was painstakingly dismantled brick by brick and boxed up in crates in a city warehouse, a historic New Haven harbor boathouse will rise again—as part of a shiny new multimillion-dollar waterfront building.