by | Nov 15, 2024 10:00 am | Comments (18)
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Cabrera and Winfield at WNHH: Where would it end?
Gary Winfield and Jorge Cabrera are determined not to blink.
Continue reading ‘Winfield & Cabrera: Don’t Bend To Trump Blackmail’
by | Oct 29, 2024 5:11 pm | Comments (8)
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Acri at WNHH FM: Voters deserve "a choice."
Anthony Acri knows what it’s like to rebuild a life after a setback. He wants voters to send him to Hartford to put that experience to work for other people seeking to rebuild theirs.
by | Oct 18, 2024 1:26 pm | Comments (21)
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State Rep. Pat Dillon at WNHH FM: "It's great if you bought DoorDash stock five years ago, not if you had maybe 10 people on your staff, serving people, and now you're down to two."
Pat Dillon started visiting voters on her 22nd round of seeking election to a state legislative seat when she learned something new: the Amity Walgreens is closing.
The voters who broke the news considered it a big deal. Dillon said she does, too, and intends to incorporate it into her work if elected on Nov. 5 to represent New Haven’s west-side 92nd General Assembly District for a 21st two-year term.
by | Oct 14, 2024 12:05 pm | Comments (18)
State Rep. Elliott: Tax burden is backwards.
Josh Elliott is ready to run for governor to challenge the current governor’s take on taxing the rich — but only if the current governor isn’t on the ballot.
Continue reading ‘Elliott Eyes "Equitable Taxation" Guv Run’
by | Oct 11, 2024 9:23 am | Comments (23)
Help more people vote: Joshua Elliott and Karimah Mickens at WNHH FM.
If you no longer have to lie about needing to vote absentee — would that cut down on fraud?
by | Sep 18, 2024 9:42 am | Comments (10)
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DeLauro (left) at CitySeed; Massey at WNHH FM.
On issues ranging from the federal Department of Education’s existence to companies’ use of algorithm-based “targeted pricing,” New Haven voters have heard a clear choice this week from candidates for Congress.
by | Aug 30, 2024 5:13 pm | Comments (52)
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Liam Brennan: Looking for enforcement mechanisms "everywhere we can."
With hopes of building a faster housing code inspection system with more teeth, the Livable City Initiative (LCI) under its new director is moving away from the courthouse and toward municipal fines.
by | Aug 21, 2024 2:44 pm | Comments (11)
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State ed commissioner Russell-Tucker: Fewer phone distractions, better student mental health.
Cellphones should be kept out of the hands of elementary and middle school students, and their use should be restricted — but not outright banned — for high schoolers.
The state Board of Education handed down those recommendations Wednesday as they voted to encourage, but not require, public schools across Connecticut to limit students’ use of “personal technology” during the school day in a bid to cut down on distractions in the classroom.
by | Aug 16, 2024 1:13 pm | Comments (13)
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Bayan Albakkour: A phone-free example for her siblings.
Adona Blair with her cousin and younger sister: Locking away phones tells students you don't believe in them.
Metropolitan Business Academy rising junior Bayan Albakkour thinks that Yondr cellphone pouches — a method for creating phone-free spaces that some New Haven schools are adopting — are a good idea to help students focus on class by hiding a key source of distraction.
Her best friend, meanwhile, remains unconvinced — and thinks these cases that lock away students’ phones for the day will only encourage students to rebel more.
That debate will play out this fall as three New Haven public schools experiment with stowing away phones after a pilot year at Barnard.
by | Aug 14, 2024 12:18 pm | Comments (45)
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Looney at WNHH: Bradley has lots of room.
Commercial air service at Tweed-New Haven Airport is growing nearly as fast as an SST — too fast, in the opinion of one influential neighbor.
by | Jul 26, 2024 4:48 pm | Comments (34)
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Neighbor Radcliffe: "I want my meat in a package."
Your soon-to-be-beheaded dinner inside here?
“Which of these chickens would you like us to slaughter?”
Meat-eaters may have a chance to answer that question at a live poultry market on Kimberly Avenue, unless at least one Hill neighbor has a say in the matter.
by | Jul 24, 2024 11:35 am | Comments (23)
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So long suckers: The former Criterion movie house.
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Bow Tie Partners CFO Ron Statile to alders: Not our fault we didn't notice we hadn't paid our taxes for six years.
The city is on track to forgive over $10,000 of interest on the city’s last non-pornographic movie theater owner’s unpaid tax bills it left behind when it left town.
Continue reading ‘Fleeing Theater Gets Going-Away Tax Present’
by | Jul 21, 2024 4:35 pm | Comments (51)
Early local favorites: Harris (left) for prez; Murphy (right) for veep?
Top New Haven Democrats coalesced quickly Sunday behind Kamala Harris as their party’s presidential nominee now that Joe Biden has announced he will not seek reelection.
At least two local Dems, including one delegate to next month’s party convention, added U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (who often shows up on lists of potential future presidential candidates) as their favored running mate to take on the Donald Trump‑J.D. Vance Republican ticket.
by | Jul 11, 2024 12:39 pm | Comments (13)
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Steve Winter with pooch pal Toly on the campaign trail.
So you have a school that needs repairs.
You have a planet that needs fewer carbon emissions.
You have a neighborhood where people pay too much for electricity.
Steve Winter has an idea about how to address those three needs at once — and where to find buckets of money to do it.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Winter Has A Geo-Winterizing Idea’
by | Jun 27, 2024 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
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How the dollars and cents add up: Budget Lab founders Danny Yagan, Natasha Sarin and Martha Gimbel.
Martha Gimbel’s new New Haven-based think tank is preparing to help the country figure out a crucial question next year once the smoke clears from this year’s federal election campaigns.
by | Jun 20, 2024 9:16 am | Comments (5)
Author Brill (at right): "If we understand how truth has been so eviscerated, we can see how to restore it."
The Death Of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — And What We Can Do About It
By Steven Brill
Alfred A. Knopf
Villains abound in Steven Brill’s new call to arms to rescue truth from internet disinformation agents and “pink slime” peddlers. My favorite villain is a piece of legislation.
by | May 29, 2024 4:27 pm | Comments (7)
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Seeking Conn.-grown solutions: Comptroller Scanlon pictured Tuesday during a stop at New Haven's Louis' Lunch.
Connecticut needs to pay doctors and hospitals more for Medicaid care. We also need to find a way to pay for it.
Sean Scanlon says he has an idea.
by | May 28, 2024 9:47 pm | Comments (26)
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Finance Chair Marchand: Budget balances optimism, restraint.
A housing agency focused on inspections, a separate parks department, a designated affordable housing development officer, and a 38.5 mill rate.
Those changes and others are coming to New Haven in the 2024 – 25 fiscal year, by way of a new budget passed by alders on Tuesday night.
Continue reading ‘It's Official: $679M Budget OK'd; LCI To Split’
by | May 17, 2024 1:02 pm | Comments (14)
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146 Greenwich (right): Room on the block for another car?
Trachten and Rodriguez offer different views to BZA on adding housing without parking.
The city’s latest clash of cars and beds took place at the dead end of Greenwich Avenue, where an alder sought to stop the creation of a single new apartment on the grounds that the street already has too many parked vehicles.
by | May 10, 2024 9:26 am | Comments (78)
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Apartments that won't be built on Hamilton St.
A Hamilton Street parking lot will remain a Hamilton Street parking lot for the time being, now that a local landlord has withdrawn a housing application in the face of several neighbors’ car concerns.
Continue reading ‘Housing Plan Dropped Amid Parking Dispute’
by | May 6, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (58)
Clockwise from top left: Up to 64 new apartments eyed for Hamilton St.; developer Yoon Lee; the 63 Hamilton parking lot; Lost in New Haven's Rob Greenberg.
A bid to provide lots more places for people to live on Hamilton Street has prompted pushback from some neighbors over where current and future residents and visitors will be able to put their cars.
by | May 1, 2024 11:55 am | Comments (27)
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Police cameras at Orchard and Edgewood.
The streets have eyes — an additional 266 and counting, to be precise — now that several million dollars in one-time federal aid have translated into a trove of new police surveillance cameras watching out for crime across the city.
by | Apr 15, 2024 3:35 pm | Comments (49)
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64 apartments eyed for Hamilton lot: a new housing solution?
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Ben Trachten: IZ makes it EZer.
Because of one section of New Haven’s zoning code, this apartment building can’t be built.
Because of another section of New Haven’s zoning code, this apartment building might be built.
by | Apr 9, 2024 9:15 am | Comments (26)
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A city proposal to let landlords build extra apartments on their properties met resistance from an aldermanic committee wary of removing an existing owner-occupant restriction.
by | Mar 26, 2024 10:49 am | Comments (13)
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Only one kind of grass allowed for public mower job hopefuls.
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Pre-employment drug test required for seasonal parks caretaker job.
If you want to make $18 an hour cutting grass in the city’s parks this summer, then you better not smoke grass before applying for the job.
Because New Haven requires prospective seasonal parks workers to pass a drug test, including for marijuana, even though recreational cannabis is now legal statewide.