Micromobile mayoral candidate Liam Brennan, who led the pack with an 88 score on his "safe streets" report card.
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If the latest round of mayoral competition is any guide, New Haven has come quite a distance from the days when the mayor’s aides talked him into ditching a Lincoln Navigator SUV for a Prius and photo-op bike rides.
Police Chief Jacobson and Lt. McDermott at Tuesday's committee meeting.
Watch out, Long Wharf music blasters — the volume on your $10,000 car-attached speaker systems may be lowered soon, now that alders have advanced a bill that would lead to higher fines and confiscated equipment for illegally loud motor vehicles.
The downtown one-way streets covered by this latest traffic study (in yellow).
A City Hall-adjacent stretch of Church Street could see cars driving both north and south — intentionally, and legally — in the not-too-distant future, as the Elicker administration prepares to act on one decade-old two-way-street conversion plan at the same time that it undertakes yet another study targeting rapid-fire downtown one-way streets.
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Attorney Mednick and Commissioner Furlow charting charter's path ahead.
How much power should politicians have to restructure local government? And which city department heads should have to live in New Haven?
The Charter Revision Commission didn’t land on any answers to those questions at its final scheduled meeting. It voted to let the Board of Alders issue a recommendation instead.
Chief of Staff Matteson (left): Better pay would "help in recruitment and retention."
The Elicker administration is looking to stem the flow of City Hall departures and make top positions more competitive by increasing pay for department heads, coordinators, and other non-unionized managers — through salary range bumps and automatic cost of living adjustments.
Charter Revision Vice-Chair and Board of Alders Majority Leader Richard Furlow (right) at a recent aldermanic committee meeting.
Charter revisers took a step towards endorsing four-year terms for mayors and alders — and a step away from allowing city department heads to live outside of New Haven.
Who's playing identity politics? Squaring off in Wooster Square Park over the Columbus statue removal, in 2020.
Mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur made a play for East Shore voters by calling for tax cuts for airport neighbors and questioning the removal of Wooster Square Park’s Christopher Columbus statue.
In the process, he and incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker ended up accusing each other of playing “identity politics.” Neither meant it as a compliment. Or as having the same meaning.
Shafiq Abdussabur (left), then an alder, in Goffe Street Park last year pushing neighborhood concerns with city economic development chief Mike Piscitelli and mayoral Chief of Staff Sean Matteson.
Reorganize how the parks department works. Get high schoolers into a “pipeline” to fill green jobs. Bring back the rangers. And enlist neighbors to pick up all that litter!
Those are among the ideas offered by mayoral candidate Shafiq Adbussabur for taking the city’s parks to the next level.
A road-safety proposal that would allow local traffic authorities to separate from police commissions is making its way through the state legislature — as city charter revisers consider how best to act if such a law change passes.
Charter Revision Commissioners: $5K could encourage more New Haveners to run for local legislative office.
Should alders receive their first pay raise in more than three decades — or is a $2,000 annual stipend enough to cover some of the costs of local legislators’ time-consuming and basically volunteer public-service jobs?
Members of Goldenberg's $1,000 Club: McKinsey's Vishnu Kamalnath, Kevin Straight, Kevin Buehler; former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter, who met the candidate at Columbia Biz school.
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Maxed-out developers: Elicker donors Yves Joseph, Carter Winstanley, Randy Salvatore, Lynn Fusco.
Mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg grabbed $1,000 donations from 17 different people — and ended up with less cash than all his Democratic primary competitors who swore off taking four-figure checks.
4-year terms, on the table at latest charter-review panel.
Hartford and Middletown recently moved from two-year to four-year terms for their mayors and local legislators. Should New Haven do the same?
The Charter Revision Commission considered that question while hearing from representatives of four other Connecticut towns, all of whom spoke in support of longer mayoral stints in office.
City social services director Mehul Dalal, Yale epidemiologist Robert Heimer, and DESK leader Steve Werlin: All in support of harm reduction center pilot.
City public health experts and homelessness-services advocates traveled to Hartford — online and in person — to support a proposal to counter a fatally rising tide of local opioid overdoses by providing a safe area to consume drugs under medical supervision.
Elicker fielding questions at reelection campaign kick-off.
Justin Elicker said he can understand where his numerous mayoral campaign opponents are coming from when they say they can do a better job tackling the city’s challenges.
Monday's in-person watch party for online school board meeting.
Several dozen city teachers, parents, and public-school advocates were able to hear each other clap and cheer — live, in person, in the same room, together — during an in-person watch party for a Board of Education that has been meeting online only for the past three years.
A killer might have been behind bars the day he instead shot Donate Myers to death had a proposed new state law been in effect. But would the law also unfairly lock up non-killers?
That question has divided New Haven officials over a measure aimed to stem gun violence.
The new normal? Duncan Goodall by his Koffee? outdoor patio.
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A winter fondue meal outside Choupette Crêperie & Cafè.
After maintaining street dining throughout the winter, four local restaurateurs now have five days to dismantle their patios for five weeks or face $250 daily fines.
School fights and lockdowns. Teacher flight. Staff shortages. Fights for funding. Calls for more elected school board members — and a school board willing to meet in public in person. A search for a new superintendent at a crucial juncture for public education.
Fourteen months into her presidency of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, Leslie Blatteau has found herself in the middle of these and other pressing public controversies. As a public school parent, as a New Haven teacher with 16 years in the classroom, and now as a labor leader, she has thought long and hard about these issues.
Chief of Staff Matteson and Corp Counsel King: "Let's move into a four-year term."
“In New Haven, it seems like there’s an election basically every six months.”
City Chief of Staff Sean Matteson offered those words of endless-campaign caution as he and the city’s top attorney pressed for mayors and alders to see their terms in office bumped up from two to four years each.
Time to reset the clock? The Edgewood Park sundial.
A new group of citywide parks advocates is calling on Mayor Justin Elicker to up his administration’s care for open spaces — including by reinstating a stand-alone department for parks and trees.
