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Former city youth director Jason Bartlett.
A state referee looked at the evidence — and decided that fired city youth chief Jason Bartlett deserves unemployment compensation.
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After passing a budget that many members lauded for making real monetary steps on equity-related initiatives, the Hamden Board of Education is now facing cuts that may require it to put those treasured initiatives, still in their infancy, on the chopping block.
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by | May 26, 2020 7:49 pm | Comments (0)
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Brandon Bartell meets Riggs.
First responders throughout the state will soon have a new furry team member to help American Medical Response (AMR) workers cope with their high-stress work.
by | May 25, 2020 12:50 pm | Comments (6)
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Online at newly reopened supermarket center.
Bottle and can redemption centers at retail outlets reopened after two months this weekend, with new distancing rules that left some collectors indignant and others relieved.
by | May 22, 2020 3:02 pm | Comments (4)
Yale New Haven Hospital nurse Xavier Velez.
The Covid-19 patient was not doing well. As Xavier Velez tended to him, he was hit with a jolt — the patient reminded him of his own father.
by | May 21, 2020 3:35 pm | Comments (3)
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Paramedics retrieve RegalCare resident in April.
State health inspectors found that a Fair Haven Heights nursing home hard hit by Covid-19 had an inadequate supply of protective gowns, an incomplete system of screening temperatures and oxygen levels, and an overall deficient infection control program to protect residents, visitors, and staff.
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by | May 18, 2020 3:15 pm | Comments (1)
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A celebratory drive-by for New Haven’s American Medical Response (AMR) workers was the first of its kind for communications response operators (CRO) Conswella Sessions and Maria Luna.
by | May 15, 2020 12:16 pm | Comments (8)
Howard and Denise Rogers on their wedding day.
After 48 days in the hospital, the first CTtransit worker to pass away from Covid-19 died Thursday evening at Yale New Haven Hospital.
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Bennett: When choice is rent or food, you pay for food.
School bus driver Santia Bennett stopped getting a paycheck from First Student March 13, and her unemployment insurance application is still pending.
After fighting for a contract amendment with Hamden that should allow it to pay its drivers for April, First Student kept Bennett waiting even longer, saying she cannot get back pay until the Department of Labor denies her unemployment claim.
by | May 7, 2020 12:24 pm | Comments (13)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter.
(Opinion) I recently had a conversation with Howard K. Hill, who operates funeral homes in New Haven, Hartford and Bloomfield, about what he is seeing in his business these days.
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by | May 7, 2020 10:19 am | Comments (2)
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The Board of Education Tuesday evening.
Nearly two months after they stopped getting paid, school bus drivers in Hamden will regain their paychecks, with back-pay to April 1.
Continue reading ‘Hamden Bus Drivers’ Pay Reinstated, Minus Two Weeks’
by | May 5, 2020 2:59 pm | Comments (2)
Acker (left): I’ve never worn so much PPE in my life.
Yale New Haven Hospital nurse Courtney Acker is used to seeing blood and the aftermath of serious accidents. What scares her more these days is the silence in Covid-positive patients’ rooms.
by | May 1, 2020 2:49 pm | Comments (3)
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Officer Natalie Crosby.
“I’m so happy to be back,” said Natalie Crosby, who left the NHPD in 2019 after a distinguished three and a half years here as a patrol officer, for a better contract and for financial reasons.
Crosby missed being with her “New Haven police family” as well as her family in Morris Cove.
In a true story of how money doesn’t buy you love, Crosby was formally reinstated into the NHPD on Wednesday night.
by | May 1, 2020 10:25 am | Comments (0)
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New Haven unemployment claims that have been processed by the state between January and mid-April.
Nearly 5,600 New Haveners applied for and received state unemployment benefits between March 15 and April 12, marking a tenfold increase since the same time period last year.
Continue reading ‘City Unemployment Up 1,000% Since Last Year’
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Yale PhD organizer Alex Kolokotronis.
Alex Kolokotronis had planned on spending the rest of his semester researching and writing on the history of labor organizing among New Haven Public Schools teachers.
Then the Covid-19 pandemic hit, throwing his — and hundreds of his peers’ — carefully laid dissertation plans off track.
by | Apr 23, 2020 12:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Chiekh Idrissou helping out mom at Motherland.
Watching his mother operate a grocery store in a pandemic, budding entreprenuer Chiekh Idrissou has learned that the best businesses fit the term “essential.”
by | Apr 23, 2020 10:37 am | Comments (5)
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New Haven Climate Movement leader Adrian Huq: Covid and climate change are discriminatory crises.
Pollution can lead to respiratory illness, which leads to a higher chance of dying from Covid-19. Earth Day turned 50 in New Haven on Wednesday with that connection in mind.
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by | Apr 22, 2020 1:31 pm | Comments (9)
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On the beat: Chris Peak (center) covering the Dalio education partnership.
After three years reporting on public education in New Haven for the Independent, Christopher Peak is beginning a new assignment with a nationwide focus.
by | Apr 21, 2020 6:44 pm | Comments (53)
Yale New Haven Health employees won’t receive “hazard pay” during the Covid-19 pandemic — but they will receive a “COVID-19 Recognition Award,” which comes with a 5 percent pay bump based on total hours worked in the run-up to and during the public health crisis.
by | Apr 21, 2020 12:53 pm | Comments (6)
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City firefighters and paramedics doffing their isolation gowns, which YNHH is beginning to run low on.
(Updated) Around 1,000 Yale New Haven Health employees have either tested positive for the novel coronavirus or are symptomatic and awaiting test results, with just over 600 still out of work throughout the regional health care system.
And while YNHH maintains an “adequate” supply of personal protective equipment, including masks and gloves, it’s struggling to keep up supplies of isolation gowns worn by staff when treating coronavirus-positive patients.
Continue reading ‘1K YNHH Employees Test Positive Or Symptomatic’
by | Apr 19, 2020 4:54 pm | Comments (10)
My friends and family check in with me to ask what the Yale New Haven Hospital Emergency Department (ED), where I work as a physician, is like these days. I think they are expecting to hear gory details, as if a train wrecked right in the middle of the place.
by | Apr 17, 2020 6:15 pm | Comments (15)
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Scenes from Friday’s emergency medical response at RegalCare.
A half-dozen firefighters, paramedics, and ambulance drivers were back Friday at the RegalCare nursing home, which has emerged as one of New Haven’s Covid-19 hotspots where 17 people have already tested positive and workers and families worry that lives are being put at risk.
by | Apr 17, 2020 4:17 pm | Comments (1)
Volunteer tracer Ye: “Stay on the line” and listen.
Jessica Ye asked the Covid-19-positive woman on the other end whom else she has been in contact with.
“I could tell you,” responded the woman, who is in her 60s. “But they’re dead.”