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Murphy: "Trying to do my small part to help build a national opposition movement against what's happening."
“The old tools are still the new tools,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told a room of Fair Haven healthcare providers and advocates worried about potential Republican-led cuts to Medicaid.
“As much as politics has changed, it is still turnout and protest and volume that makes a difference.”
Lagarde: "We're not gonna break any laws. We're not gonna abandon any patients."
Fair Haven Community Health Care is looking to open a separate private practice — with no federal funding — so that it can continue to treat all of its patients without violating any of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
Elicker (center): "We don't need any more of these shops."
Grand Asmoke Shop, time to local license up.
Mayor Justin Elicker put pen to paper at a City Hall signing ceremony that could lead to $1,000-a-day fines for rule-breaking smoke shops — as part of new local regulations governing where and how retailers can sell tobacco and vaping products in New Haven.
Fair Haven Health's Dr. Tejada Arias: Medicaid affects every generation.
Politicians and healthcare providers gathered to send a message that cutting Medicaid is a matter of life and death.
They made the case that at stake is the well-being not only of those insured by the program — including roughly 60,000 New Haveners — but of their families and communities as well.
Furlow (at mic): “This is one step towards a more healthy and vibrant city.”
New Haven officially has room for one last smoke shop — which will have to obtain a municipal license, alongside all of the city’s 212 existing tobacco retailers — thanks to new zoning and public health regulations passed by the Board of Alders.
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Nunez (right) leads the way: "Like sports, the arts save kids."
“Get out your heads and get into your bodies!” Hillhouse High School dance teacher Millette Nunez instructed her students, as each of them danced to the upbeat rhythm of Afro-Caribbean guitar and drums.
Zrelak: "What you flush down the toilet, dump down the drain, this is where it ends up."
Yuck: "Raggy material," like wipes and tampons, that ends up in the dumpster.
Gary Zrelak, director of operations for the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority, wielded a several-foot-long plastic pipe with a valve at the end, which he nicknamed the “sludge judge.”
He was on a catwalk over the water draining out of the last of three enormous tanks at the East Shore Water Pollution Abatement Facility, taking a core sample of the 14-foot-deep pool.
As he expected, below the surface, the water was still brown, tinted with matter that was settling slowly to the bottom of the pool. But the top three feet of water were clear — almost ready to be released into the New Haven Harbor on a cold winter day.
The tank — and the two preceding it, and the entire facility that runs them — “is connected to everyone, every household and commercial building” in a substantial part of the greater New Haven area, Zrelak said. “They have a toilet, they’re coming here.”
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Jan 31, 2025 11:44 am
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Community resilience director Kemp: "I want us to reframe how we think about the victims."
In response to impending Trump administration cuts to Medicaid, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought together local healthcare providers, city officials, gun violence survivors, and researchers to hear about how an about-face in federal policy might affect New Haven’s anti-violence public health interventions.
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200 execs at 100 College, for "legislative breakfast."
Bracing for a federal funding drought and higher state costs for Medicare and Medicaid, Gov. Ned Lamont urged pharma executives to work with Hartford on cutting the cost of prescription drugs Monday morning at a gathering held by the life sciences lobbying group BioCT.
... cigarettes and vaping products, still allowed, at 864 Whalley.
A “Not For Sale” sign remains taped to the top of a beverage case filled with Monster energy drinks, Powerade and Diet Coke at the Grab n’ Go Market in Westville Village — where city zoners recently rejected Mohammed Ababneh’s bid to sell soda and prepackaged food in addition to vaping products and cigarettes.
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Jan 14, 2025 1:07 pm
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COMPASS crew member Nanette Campbell on a call.
Is COMPASS a Yale-backed public relations stunt — or a good faith and effective effort to improve crisis response services all across New Haven?
Alders sought answers to those questions, and received testimony and data bolstering the program’s cause, as they advanced a plan to extend the police-alternative pilot for another year.
Yale New Haven Health announced on Friday a five-year, $500,000 unrestricted gift to Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center, in support of the health center’s Recovery and Wellness Center and “advancing health equity.”
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Dec 17, 2024 11:37 am
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Health Director Bond: RFP error corrected.
More than 20 representatives from nonprofits that help people living with HIV/AIDS sent a letter to the mayor criticizing the city for changing how it handles a federal grant program — and warning the Elicker administration against “dismantling” a system of care they say works just fine.
The Health Department has responded by correcting an error regarding who is eligible to apply for these funds, and by arguing that centralizing oversight with city government is necessary to bring this program into compliance with federal requirements.
LCI's Brennan: Looking for tools to assess mold's impact.
Daniella Herget has lived in New Haven her entire adult life and loves the city, but now she’s seriously considering leaving for good.
Every apartment she’s lived in, she said, has had the same issues: poor conditions that exacerbate her asthma, and landlords who refuse to repair them.
Under proposed zoning update, new smoke shops wouldn't be allowed to open within the orange circles, which describe a 3,000-foot radius for each existing licensed tobacco retailer.
Would barring new smoke shops from opening within 1,000 feet of schools, parks, and places of worship do enough to protect neighbors from those retailers’ harmful wares?
Would imposing a 3,000-foot buffer between new and existing tobacco sellers only serve to protect existing stores’ “monopolies” on their blocks?
And, taken together, would these two distance restrictions effectively impose a citywide ban — when the law’s sponsors simply want to limit, but not outlaw, new shops from popping up?
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Beam me up, YNHH.
High in the sky, two crewmen from CT Ironworkers Local No. 15 & 424 waited for a crane to haul in an enormous beam.
The workers started as motionless dots against the deep blue backdrop. As the beam neared, they went into action, harnessing each side and battling the wind to get the slab to click into place.
When it finally did, the external structure of the Adams Neurosciences Center at Yale New Haven Hospital was officially complete — eight years after concept, and two after groundbreaking.
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Nov 14, 2024 10:16 am
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Aerialist Ky Adams represents mothers and their children soaring.
From a table crammed with leaflets in the gymnasium at the Dixwell Community “Q” House, Sharnasia Booker watched a circus artist perform gravity-defying stunts on an aerial hoop, seemingly leaping through the air and taking flight — a representation of what young mothers and their children can do with the right support.
The long-awaited ordinance-in-progress will treat smoke shops similarly to liquor stores with requirements like they not be located near schools and churches or too close to each other.
Showing up: Street medicine outreachers Phil Costello, Emma Lo, Claudette Kidd at WNHH FM.
Teens have started jumping out of cars and attacking homeless people sleeping on the street in Fair Haven, according to a veteran street outreach worker.
