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Delphine Clyburn, at right in photo, with Doreen Abubakar celebrating the transformation of the Mud Hole into the Learning Corridor.
After nearly a decade representing Newhallville on the Board of Alders, Delphine Clyburn is stepping down as Ward 20 alder.
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by | Jul 7, 2021 5:32 pm | Comments (5)
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Health Director Bond (right) getting vaccinated in December.
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More than 61 percent of New Haveners over the age of 12 have gotten at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
The city’s next challenge on the path to “herd immunity”: Convincing at least 23,500 more city residents to get a shot or two in the arm.
by | Jul 6, 2021 9:05 pm | Comments (40)
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Tweed deal outlines revealed in May; fine print was released Tuesday.
The runway lengthens, a new terminal and garage get built, and the name “New Haven” remains under newly released terms of a proposed 43-year lease between the city and Tweed’s airport authority.
The deal includes lifting of a weight limit on local aircraft — and the teeing up of a long-term sub-lease with a deep-pocketed private investor.
Those terms, and many more, were revealed Tuesday in a new proposed amended and restated lease and operating agreement between the city and the Tweed New Haven Airport Authority and a proposed ordinance amendment.
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Appointments only: An aspiring firefighter presents guard Steve Asprelli with one of a steady stream of requests for access to 200 Orange.
Starting Thursday, New Haveners may be able to walk into not just a crowded bar or restaurant or sporting event or store — but also the municipal government office building at 200 Orange St.
by | Jul 2, 2021 12:22 pm | Comments (1)
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Expect to continue seeing these downtown — and not in neighborhoods.
Alders had a lot of questions about how New Haven elections work and will work in the future. They received some answers for now, with more promised later.
by | Jun 29, 2021 12:32 pm | Comments (23)
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Board Prez Walker-Myers at pension session: All ideas are welcome.
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Gordon Hamlin offered a trigger warning before making his pitch for a “shared risk” solution to the city’s underfunded public pensions.
“There’s something in this proposal for everyone to love,” Hamlin advised, “and there’s something in this proposal for everyone to hate.”
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by | Jun 28, 2021 9:18 am | Comments (5)
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Doug Hausladen, at right, with partner-in-street-redesign Giovanni Zinn, the city engineer, at May’s opening of a new/old portion of Columbus Avenue near the police and train station.
Doug Hausladen is returning to running just one government agency rather than two.
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by | Jun 24, 2021 8:15 pm | Comments (29)
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DuBois-Walton at presser: Mayor’s job is to find way to do what’s right.
If something appears wrong — like city government OK’ing, with almost no questions asked, $900,000 in state tax breaks for companies accused of fraud and controlled by an imprisoned sex predator — what should a mayor do?
Mayoral candidate Karen DuBois-Walton offered an answer Thursday that differed from the one offered by her opponent: Find a legal way to do what’s right.
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by | Jun 24, 2021 11:10 am | Comments (12)
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Rev. Steven Cousin gets the firefighter lottery ball rolling.
Wednesday evening’s top winners; story has link to full list.
“60, 75, 13, 27, 80, 22 …”
Steven Cousin rattled off the numbers in a hotly-watched round of Powerball — not for a million-dollar jackpot, but for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to become a New Haven firefighter.
by | Jun 23, 2021 7:56 pm | Comments (2)
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Virtual court on Wednesday.
A year-old legal battle between the executive and legislative branches of city government about former fire union president Frank Ricci’s retirement benefits returned to an argument, and an analogy, that first popped up last July: Is the “toothpaste out of the tube”? Or can it go back in?
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by | Jun 23, 2021 1:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Corporation Counsel Patricia King: City was right to approve Greer’s companies’ subsidy requests.
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Rabbi Daniel Greer, still in prison, vindicated by city in his companies’ requests for government-supported cash flow.
City staff acted “appropriately” and in line with state statute by pleading helplessness when rubber-stamping another $900,000 in state tax breaks for six nonprofits that have been accused of fraud in federal court and that are controlled by an imprisoned sex predator.
So decreed the city’s top attorney, in a newly released five-page memo.
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by | Jun 22, 2021 10:32 am | Comments (1)
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Tuesday morning’s court hearing.
A state judge signed off on a plan by the city and legal aid to get the word out about a newly inked settlement to a contentious two-year legal battle over how the city Health Department protects lead-poisoned local children.
by | Jun 21, 2021 11:57 am | Comments (16)
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424 Chapel: Future home of Health Dept. and public works garage?
The Board of Alders unanimously signed off on the city purchasing a state-owned warehouse, garage and office building on the eastern edge of Wooster Square — where the city plans to move the Health Department and snow plow and streetsweeper maintenance operations.
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by | Jun 17, 2021 3:41 pm | Comments (8)
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City Plan Director Woods (center): Incremental land-use change.
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Proposed zoning updates promoting accessory dwelling units.
A pending city zoning rewrite hinges partly on a question — whether all landlords, or just owner-occupants, should be allowed to add an extra apartment to their properties.
by | Jun 17, 2021 1:28 pm | Comments (3)
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129 Church St., soon to go residential.
A development duo won unanimous city approval to convert an eight-story commercial building downtown into 92 new market-rate apartments.
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by | Jun 10, 2021 4:00 pm | Comments (19)
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Fire Union prez Pat Cannon with busted hydrant in the Hill.
Fire Chief Alston responds at dueling presser.
One hundred and twenty six fire hydrants across the city are currently out of service.
Does it matter?
by | Jun 10, 2021 1:06 pm | Comments (13)
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Work crew rebuilds the back fire escape at 66 Norton.
City Deputy Fire Marshal Jen Forslund, a worker at 66 Norton., local realtor and landlord Mendy Paris.
Even though Norton Street’s city-shuttered “New Jack City” has been reborn as the upscale “Norton Pointe Apartments,” tenants find themselves yet again exiled to hotel bedrooms — waiting for the landlord to finish repairs, and for the city to sign off on the building’s safety.
by | Jun 9, 2021 9:05 am | Comments (18)
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300-unit apartment complex under construction on Union Street in Wooster Square. Under proposal, buildings like these would have to set aside affordable apts.
In round two of a planned zoning-code overhaul, the Elicker Administration is seeking to require developers to include affordable units in new and rehabbed apartment complexes — with a focus on the city’s “core.”
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by | Jun 8, 2021 4:19 pm | Comments (29)
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Cops Monday evening at the scene of Boulevard shooting: Would a more diverse force help?
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Amid a disappearance of cops of color from the top ranks, pressure is building on police brass to start promoting Black and Hispanic officers into at least mid-level slots.
by | Jun 8, 2021 10:58 am | Comments (35)
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Alder Roth: But… Board Prez Walker-Myers: Stop right there.
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DuBois-Walton: City Hall should have audited Greer’s companies before giving alders list recommendation.
The Board of Alders overwhelmingly voted to approve another $900,000 in state tax credits for six companies controlled by imprisoned sex predator Rabbi Daniel Greer — and shut down two alders’ attempts to discuss allegations of fraud by those companies.
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by | Jun 8, 2021 8:40 am | Comments (1)
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Monday night’s Board of Alders meeting.
Tens of millions of dollars of federal pandemic-era aid flowed in and out of the Aldermanic Chambers, as city legislators approved a $26.3 million spending plan with one vote, and accepted another $25.3 million in federal aid with a second.
by | Jun 8, 2021 8:36 am | Comments (2)
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Q House, opening soon on Dixwell Ave.
Celebrating the last legislative step in a decade-long effort to revive the “Q House,” the Board of Alders unanimously approved a three-year, $300,000 contract between the city and LEAP that will have the local youth tutoring and recreation agency run the reborn Dixwell Avenue community center.
by | Jun 7, 2021 10:14 am | Comments (5)
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City Budget Director Gormany: Lots more money coming the city’s way.
The federal aid tidal wave just got $25.3 million bigger.
by | Jun 4, 2021 4:23 pm | Comments (9)
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Brackeen (center), Schroeter (right): It’s up to the state. Winter (left): It’s up to us, too.
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Rabbi Daniel Greer: City Hall claims it no choice but to continue funneling tax breaks his way.
A city alder pushed back against the Elicker administration after it doubled down on greenlighting another $900,000 in housing-rehab tax credits for companies accused of fraud and controlled by an imprisoned sex predator.
by | Jun 4, 2021 11:57 am | Comments (7)
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Mayor Elicker: “Fully fund the tiered PILOT program.”
The city’s fiscal future hangs in the balance as state lawmakers and the governor play chicken on municipal aid — and as Mayor Justin Elicker weighs whether or not to sign an alder-approved city budget that assumes a hefty fiscal bump from Hartford.