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Jan 3, 2022 6:49 pm
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Principal Dan Levy: This isn't March 2020.
Administrators filled in to keep classrooms running and lunches served Monday, bus routes were combined, and teachers all received masks, as the New Haven and Hamden school districts resolved to remain open even as some suburban districts temporarily pulled the plug.
The hope remained by day’s end that kids can remain in schools despite the fact that Connecticut posted a record 21.5 percent Covid-19 test-positivity rate.
Meanwhile, New Haven’s teachers union president applauded the efforts to fill gaps but questioned whether they’ll prove “sustainable” — or if Connecticut should allow some remote learning to count as official school days.
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Dec 15, 2021 9:30 am
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Newly elected Hamden Council President Dominique Baez, who will appoint charter revision commission members.
In its first official meeting of the year, Hamden’s new Legislative Council chose to put charter revision back on the table by voting to form a second — and smaller — commission to update the document.
New market-rate housing being constructed on Howe St. in March.
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How IZ is designed to work.
An aldermanic committee unanimously recommended approval of a plan to require developers to set aside affordable apartments in new and rehabbed complexes — bringing one of the Elicker Administration’s long-in-the-works legislative priorities closer to a final vote.
Regina Rush-Kittle, tapped by the mayor to serve as city CAO.
Wowed by her resume and decades-long commitment to public service, alders advanced the appointment of an ex-Marine, state trooper, police officer, and state emergency management deputy commissioner to a top City Hall “coordinator” role.
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Nov 22, 2021 3:54 pm
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Gabe Canestri, Jr. and defense attorney Richard Tropiano, Jr. in court Monday.
A state judge has given the organizer of the 5,000-person “EastCoastin” motorcycle rally one week to consider a newly offered plea deal in his criminal case — as the city continues to try to collect on $82,000 in police and public works overtime stemming from that unpermitted event.
Rendering of new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
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Monday night’s Board of Alders meeting.
Alders unanimously approved plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf after arguing that the city’s waterfront should be developed and protected — not abandoned — amid climate change.
Affordable Housing Commissioners (clockwise from top left): Karen DuBois-Walton, Claudette Kidd, Elias Estabrook, Anika Singh Lemar, Rebecca Corbett, Jaime Myers-McPhail.
A new report from the city’s Affordable Housing Commission has surfaced a divide among its members: Will “inclusionary zoning” do more to help, or hurt, local low-income renters?
Testifiers in IZ debate, top row: Lillie Chambers, Darren Seid, Kelcy Steele. Middle row: Anstress Farwell, Karen DuBois-Walton, Ben Trachten. Bottom row: Jaime Myers-McPhail, Myra Smith, Elias Estabrook.
In the view of people who spent hours offering testimony, the Elicker Administration’s plan to promote “inclusionary zoning” is …
One of the most progressive land-use updates in the nation?
Too generous to developers, and too stingy to low-income renters?
Just another tool in the affordable-housing toolbox?
Bureaucratic overreach that will silence the city’s building boom?
Community leaders in support of more police cameras (clockwise from top left): Rev. Kelcy Steele, Kim Harris, Stacy Spell, Chaz Carmon.
The idea of investing in 500 new surveillance cameras around town to fight crime and solve more homicides came one step closer to reality Monday night.
Aaron Goode with voting reform advocates at Sally’s slicing session.
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One alternative Congressional district map, with New Haven and Bridgeport combined.
Seven voting reform advocates gathered around a table at Sally’s, far more satisfied with the way their pizza had been sliced than with the way New Haven is currently split into state legislative districts.
Electric buses, lower taxes for low-income people, endorsed.
The Board of Alders set Connecticut’s Democratic governor and top state legislators a challenge Thursday: Find a way to make fuel sellers — and not the poor and working class — pay for transportation-related carbon emissions, and help save cities like New Haven from bearing the brunt of climate change and air pollution.
City Engineer Zinn, City Plan’s Woods: We can do this safely.
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Design rendering of new apartments planned for Long Wharf.
Plans to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf won a key aldermanic approval — after two city department heads made their pitches for why New Haven should not have to wholly abandon waterfront development, even amid climate change.
Mayoral candidates Justin Elicker and John Carlson, Democracy Fund Administrator Aly Heimer, at Tuesday night’s candidate debate.
The Democracy Fund, New Haven’s public-financing system for mayoral candidates, has approved distributing $31,449 to Democrat Justin Elicker and $29,148 to Republican John Carlson in the final weeks before their Nov. 2 election contest.
Rendering of Fusco’s proposed waterfront apartments.
The City Plan Commission unanimously advanced a proposal to build up to 500 new apartments on Long Wharf — despite the advice of a top state environmental regulator who advocated rejecting waterfront residential developments as unduly dangerous due to climate-change-induced flooding.
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Oct 15, 2021 10:08 am
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Ward 13 alder candidates Rosa Santana (vaxed, pro-mandate), Patricia Kane (vaxed, anti-mandate), Deborah Reyes (unvaxxed, anti-mandate).
Fair Haven Heights voters have more choices than anyone else in town in this year’s general election: Three different candidates are seeking their support for alder in the Nov. 2 election, and they offer three mixes of positions on issues ranging from health care to policing.
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Oct 12, 2021 9:21 am
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Chris Atchley and Ted Stevens take selfie for DTC Facebook group that candidates used to encourage each other to keep canvassing.
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Pat Destito travels door to door in his daughter’s neighborhood, looking to listen to residents’ concerns and make them feel heard.
Pat Destito knocked on just the door he was looking for: one opened by an unaffiliated voter who told him, “I don’t go shopping by myself anymore. When I go to ShopRite, I go with my husband.”
A lifelong East Shore resident and former alder has succeeded in his quest to save the Raynham Estate — after closing on the 26.25-acre former Townshend family home and its surrounding properties for $2.6 million.
Chief Dominguez looks on as cops arrest Gabe Canestri, Jr.
The city plans to send a bill for more than $100,000 in police and public works overtime to the organizer of an unpermitted, 5,000-person motorcycle rally that tore through the Annex.
John Velleca at WNHH FM: Banking on a surveillance society to stem violence “a ridiculous notion.”
New Haven is not going to reduce violence by having the mayor show up at crime scenes or ordering 500 more surveillance cameras, in the view of a retired top cop who oversaw the police response to the city’s previous prolonged spike in violence.
