Malloy Slices New Haven’s
Budget Gap By A Cool $11M

I am taking bets.Watch you state taxes go up.

I am proud to have voted for such a great man as Dan Malloy who has shown his superior capabilities over Mayor DeStefano by not holding a grudge, and not holding New Haven as a hostage to DeStefano's abyssmal performance in not supporting a fellow Democrat. Thank you, Governor. I hope you, John DeStefano, are shamed by your petty politickinmg and vengeful way of doing business. All of you who got Malloy elected rally around to get a new Mayor for New Haven this November. You can do it.

Thank you, Governor Malloy. This shows you are a magnanimous person, and truly deserving of the governorship. Johnny Boy, I hope you are really, really ashamed of your lack of support of the successful Democratic candidate for governor, and the city's democatic machine too for helping you. Take a lesson. This is true leadership. Better still, take two lessons. Be humble and don't run for re-election. There are many, many people out there who are far more capable and have far more strength of character than you do.

Where did he find it? In a $3.5 billion deficit, he found an extra $540 million? Did know one ask him where he found it?

For some reason, every time I see photo shoots of Dan Malloy I think 'steven colbert'.

anyone?

I agree with Adam we have to wait and see what the gov offers up in the whole picture. Do not count our chickens yet.

With that said...funny side note, Johnny looks like he stole a cookie in that pic:)
Or :)
Funny caption...it wasn't me it was the dog.

Can someone reach out to the Mayor and have him be mindful of his facial expressions as of late...at first I thought it to be a one off shot, but it appears that in all his photos dealing with budget cuts and the financial despair of the city he has a frazzled look upon his face...not real reassuring. Am I the only one that is noticing this...the caption above his head should read "I am sooooo screwed!"

I think we have ourselves one helluva new governor in Dan Malloy.
Man of real integrity and decency, a.problem solver and consensus builder who seems above petty politics and personal vendetta.

Gov. Rell might have been popular (if only by not being a convicted felon), but she was no friend of CT's cities. Interesting, and encouraging insofar as DeStefano's "machine" did precious little for Malloy last Fall. I'd be glad to see a thaw between the Mayor and the Governor, and this seems like a good sign.

Compared to the Roland/Rell Admin, anything from the statehouse that isn't a middle finger towards the cities is refreshing. I'll take this news as my daily dose of optimism.

Scare quotes because "machine" really means 'campaign infrastructure', which there's really nothing wrong with. Hell, that sort of thing is necessary in a democracy, unless you really like losing over and over and over again. I for one am glad that Harry Reid has a 'machine', because it means there's one less barking mad lunatic in the U.S. Senate.

"I think it is worth saying something obvious…it's good to have people mean what they say," New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. said.

And the Mayor is somewhere sitting in a corner saying to himself, I wish I had character and integrity.

Take a look at the expression on Johnnie's face in the picture above and post a caption of just what he's thinking.

"How'd they pick you?" or "That's all I'm getting?" or more likely, "I wonder how much I can get for selling City Hall?"

What no complaining about the suburbs. Oh you skels got your hard earned suburban tax dollars that none of you worked for. typical I don't see cheshire, southington, east haven, or even hamden getting money to bail out incompetent city halls. Here is an idea since you hate people who work in your city from out of town, whether its private or public jobs, you get no more bailouts

non city,
State aid for cities derived largely from suburban taxes isn't a bailout, it is the breadcrumbs that the suburbs throw (involuntarily) at the cities as payment for being parasites. If suburban communities had 3/4 of their workforce commuting into the town in the morning, demanding large amounts of parking throughout the day and then leaving with their pay checks to other towns in the late afternoon, suburbs would need a "bail out" too. Fortunately for suburbs, they have the good end of the deal, they get to act as parasites to the source (cities), without having to answer for taxes from the municipal body that they are dependent upon except for minimal state aid, which passes through several layers of bureaucracy before reaching the streets of the cities.

Can you say "BEG"? We're all gonna be paying for Johnny's arrogant incompetence for generations. Can't wait to retire...Connecticut? Never heard of it...

I think the better caption is:

'You are really going to help out New Haven after all the back stabbing I and MY Party have done to you?'

Thank you Governor! I am happy and proud the people of New Haven had their own minds and overwhelmingly supported you.

Well said JH

to j hopkins,

The burbs are gonna have to create more parking spaces because thanks to your complaining about industry and factories within the city those jobs have left and are leaving for the burbs (see Winchester and United Illuminating as well as AT&T). I guess you can continue to work for your new masters, I mean Yale University, who provide a lil more than bread crumbs to keep you docile.

"thanks to your complaining about industry and factories within the city those jobs have left and are leaving for the burbs"

The decline of industry and cities in general began before my parents were born.
In the early 20th century, thanks to several Supreme Court decisions and Federal Acts passed by a corporate-controlled congress, corporations began doing large scale consolidation of manufacturing in the United States. Immediately following WW1 when the demand for weapons manufacturing slowed, Winchester Repeating Arms looked for corporate sponsors and found them in a group of New York bankers in 1919. This began a long and slow process of continued corporate consolidation of management and nationalization of ownership. The factory completely shut down in March 2006, when I was 17. At the time, it employed just over 100 people, far smaller than the 20,000+ workers it employed during WW2. It had nothing to do with me. The jobs weren't outsourced to the suburbs either, they were sent to China thanks to a government that enabled cheap global and national networks of trade through interstate trucking subsidies and free trade agreements.
United Illuminating is leaving because of a broken State taxing system, which artificially devalues undeveloped land(also thanks in part to federal industrial farm subsidies) and promotes greenfield development with new construction subsidies, and Euclidean-based zoning ordinances. It is now cheaper (on paper) to construct a sprawling new complex on a greenfield in suburbia and new roads and parking lots, then it is to reuse an existing building in a city thanks to these misguided and incompetent State and local systems, structures and subsidies.
Yale University pays a fraction of what it should to the city. In 1920s, John William Sterling donated $30 million to Yale, which it used to hire James Gamble Rogers to expand its campus in the 1930s, with new residential colleges and facilities. Prior to this large expansion, Yale students ate in city restaurants, shopped in city grocery stores, and lived in city apartments. The original point of tax exempt status for private educational institutions was that they did not provide services other than education. When that changed, Yale should have begun to pay taxes on its non academic facilities like dorms, dining halls, and offices. What services and facilities were once provided to students in the private sector, through property owners in the city, was now being put on the tax exempt status of Yale under the false title of academic and educational facilities.
Once New Haven's suburbs ceased to be self-supportive towns after WW2 when the federally-funded highways were built, those former towns should have been annexed to New Haven, just as Westville was incorporated into the city in 1921, and Fair Haven was incorporated in 1870.

... as a former resident of this once fine city, I have watched numerous companies flee this city. It is sad to be honest with you. and its not just big companies, little ones have been kicked out by d-bag yale, remember yankee doodle and the copper kitchen, mom and pop stores that got NO support from the residents of new haven. Yale continues to DICK-Tate what happens and the city is losing out. Arts and Ideas great what an idea, yeah right. News flash Henry Ford created more jobs than Van Gogh, and Picasso ever did or could. Enough blaming China. that is sooo Glenn Beck

New Haven, like most old US cities, first industrialized because of its ideal geographic location. Lowland cities with access to natural ports and running water with currents strong enough to power mills were settled because they were ideal for trade, harnessing natural resources, and viable to inhabit. New Haven further industrialized after the Civil War, along with many older midwestern cities, because of private investments in railroads, which made it possible to ship large amounts of goods across country to distant markets.
By the 1950s, these natural geographic features and private infrastructure investments that New Haven contained were no longer the determining factor for development. The government had begun taking public wealth and investing it in subsidies for suburban development and global trade networks. The only way that it became viable to develop housing in suburbs was because of government-backed car loans, mortgage loans, federally-funded highways, and tax structure, zoning codes and subsidies that encouraged new construction rather than historic rehabilitation of existing buildings.
Suburbs are not market-driven, they are government enabled and encouraged.
Get rid or reform of the enabling legislation, subsidies, and tax structure and the suburbs would decant in favor of development patterns that are viable for private investment, which in fact is a pattern of urbanism. Except for most of the previous century, urbanism has been the development pattern and human habitat for several millennia.

State aid to cities is merely a weak bureaucratic effort to address a problem that requires much larger systemic reform. The issue with State aid to cities is not that it's wrong because it redistributes wealth, the issue is that it does not do nearly enough to correct the horrible decisions that have been made over the last century. If the State wanted to get serious about helping cities, they would encourage an effort of rationalization, and strategic annexing of communities to the municipality that sustains them, which would result in many New Haven County suburbs incorporating into the City of New Haven. If suburbs want to remain independent, then they can grow turn the small, historic town centers into larger civic, commercial, and job centers that actually sustain their own populations. Absent of that, bedroom communities should be annexed to the city that they are dependent upon for jobs.