by | Feb 13, 2020 12:56 pm | Comments (0)
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Seven students at an alternative high-tech coding school based in Fair Haven have been awarded cost-of-living scholarships sponsored by Facebook, Google, and Intel.
by | Feb 11, 2020 4:38 pm | Comments (7)
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Meet Emily Hays and Maya McFadden. You’ll be seeing them a lot around town.
by | Feb 10, 2020 11:10 pm | Comments (9)
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Asst. Fire Chief Orlando Marcano.
Word shot like a three-alarm fire through NHFD and political circles in town Monday night after the city’s highest-ranking Latino firefighter, Assistant Chief Orlando “Woody” Marcano, announced he is retiring amid an “impossible” work environment.
by | Feb 5, 2020 8:43 am | Comments (5)
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Cabrera (left), Logan: 77 votes apart last time.
Top state Democrats turned out in force Tuesday night to help union organizer Jorge Cabrera kick off a rematch State Senate challenge that pits two starkly different political visions against each other.
by | Jan 30, 2020 2:09 pm | Comments (19)
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The man brandished a knife. He charged at Officer Jason Santiago.
Santiago had his gun out. He knew he might have to pull the trigger. But first he tried another idea.
by | Jan 29, 2020 9:17 pm | Comments (17)
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ICE agents stake out courthouse office seeking immigrant.
Ed Finlayson.
• “ICE is here.”
• Court security screener, who lives in Goatville, hires Pattis to fight dismissal.
• Kica Matos: “Instead of being fired, he should be celebrated.”
• Larger battle looms over feds’ presence in state courthouses.
by | Jan 29, 2020 4:00 pm | Comments (32)
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Carmen Parker (standing in back) with husband Josh.
After finding out that her daughter’s teacher had been placed on administrative leave for planning a play that would have black children playing slaves, Carmen Parker had a message for the Hamden School District: The problem is not the teacher, it’s the system.
Continue reading ‘Slave Play Teacher Put On Leave; Parent: “Scapegoating” Not The Answer’
by | Jan 24, 2020 3:00 pm | Comments (17)
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Keefe Worker Pat Cabral stocks the pantry.
Tekenya works as a supervisor at ShopRite. She can’t always afford to shop there on the wages she earns, so she sometimes ends up at a food pantry to pick up groceries — that were donated by ShopRite.
by | Jan 24, 2020 1:23 pm | Comments (7)
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Jayuan Carter learned how to trim bushes while limiting greenhouse emissions. He learned how to beat the figurative bushes to find voters.
Now he’s looking to share some of those lessons.
by | Jan 22, 2020 7:33 pm | Comments (3)
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Census field manager Emenyonu: Earning $30 an hour.
On his third day working for the U.S. Census, Nnamdi Emenyonu had a message for fellow city residents who feel stymied by the cumbersome job application process: Don’t give up. The jobs are worth it.
And they’re ready for the taking: The New Haven office is less than halfway toward its goal of hiring 2,874 workers.
by | Jan 20, 2020 11:06 pm | Comments (22)
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Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers (center) with New Haven Rising leader Scott Marks and Varick Pastor Kelcy Steele.
Murder. Racism.
“We should call it out when we see it,” Tyisha Walker-Myers declared Monday night. And she saw it last week when a white state trooper fired seven bullets into the car of a 19-year-old African-American New Havener and killed him.
She saw it. And she called it out.
by | Jan 20, 2020 1:24 pm | Comments (1)
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Danger zone: Navigating treacherous Hil Health parking-lot trek.
Cornell Scott Hill Health Center CEO Michael Taylor announced that all center employees now earn at least $16 an hour — well ahead of the state’s gradual transition to $15.
Meanwhile, Taylor worries that one of his center’s staffers or hundreds of daily patients will be hit by cars blowing through the crosswalk in front of the Columbus Avenue main entrance.
by | Jan 16, 2020 4:14 am | Comments (11)
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All the census tracts marked in red (which are most of them) have insufficient local census takers signed up.
Unless more neighborhood people apply for 2020 federal census-taker jobs, the city runs the risk of having outsiders come in for whom fewer doors will be opened.
That could lead to a lower count and less federal government money for the next decade.
by | Jan 15, 2020 5:47 pm | Comments (3)
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A familiar — and welcomed — face appeared at B Squad line-ups Wednesday afternoon at police headquarters.
by | Jan 15, 2020 3:07 pm | Comments (7)
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Wallman: Let’s fix it.
As Hamden politicians pitched their visions of Hamden’s future and their solutions to its problems this fall in their appeals to voters, the word “COLA” began to float about the discourse. Not in soda-floats or vending-machines, but in tough discussions of how to keep Hamden fiscally sound.
by | Jan 9, 2020 6:47 pm | Comments (5)
Maritza Bond: Any lead level too high.
A Fair Haven native is coming home to take command of the city’s embattled health department.
by | Jan 9, 2020 1:11 pm | Comments (0)
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City Hall’s Carlos Eyzaguirre (at right)pitches government internships.
The employers were pitching jobs. The students were ready to pitch themselves.
by | Jan 8, 2020 4:10 pm | Comments (4)
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An industrial-use pump manufacturer has purchased Radiall’s former factory buildings on John Murphy Drive in Fair Haven for $3.2 million — with plans eventually to hire enough people to replace many of the New Haven jobs lost there.
by | Jan 1, 2020 11:27 am | Comments (3)
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Top row, from left: Legislative affairs chief Kevin Alvarez, Executive Assistant Ana Garcia, labor relations chief Cathleen Simpson, Administrative Aide Maria Melendez. Bottom row: Policy Assistant Omena McCoy, alder liaison Taijah Anderson, Administrtive Aide Patricia Drax, communications chief Gage Frank.
Mayor Justin Elicker has rounded out his new City Hall team with eight new appointees and three familiar faces.
by | Dec 24, 2019 7:51 am | Comments (8)
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Cop accountability protesters shut down College Street in April.
Climate emergency activists outside City Hall in August.
In 12 months of near-constant protests, New Haveners took to the streets — and to City Hall, the Board of Education, public parks, rezoning meetings, out-of-state immigrant detention centers, the Yale Bowl, and many, many more places besides.
These demonstrators sometimes won what they asked for. They always sparked debate. And they seemed to herald a new era of vibrant, disruptive participatory democracy at a time when civic unrest has swept the country and the globe.
Continue reading ‘2019’s Perpetual Protests Produced Results’
by | Dec 20, 2019 1:33 pm | Comments (5)
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Loubabatou Harris rose by 5 a.m. First she prayed; then she hit the road to Hartford to pick up a delivery of meat. It was time to stock up for the holidays on food that many of her African-born customers remember from the motherland — and can find only at Motherland Market.
by | Dec 17, 2019 9:04 pm | Comments (0)
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John Cappiello.
After 18 months in the interim position of Hamden acting police chief , John Cappiello received approval to officially step into the department’s highest office Monday — along with an extra $10,000.
by | Dec 16, 2019 10:07 pm | Comments (4)
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Murphy’s “round”-table discussion at Known co-working space.
Chris Murphy came to New Haven’s newest co-working space with a cause he believes can unite Democrats with Republicans in Washington, and tech execs with fast-food workers in the trenches.
The cause: Banning non-compete clauses. Not just for top executives. Not just for burger-flippers. For just about everyone in America.
by | Dec 16, 2019 5:33 pm | Comments (4)
Mehul Dalal.
Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker continued rounding out his leadership team by tapping a public-health doctor to serve as community services administrator (CSA).
Continue reading ‘Elicker Taps Public-Health Doc For Community Services Chief’
by | Dec 13, 2019 8:51 am | Comments (10)
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Pat King in her past role as chair of the BZA.
Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker has appointed ethics attorney and former zoning board chair Patricia King to serve as the city’s next top lawyer.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Taps Pat King As Corporation Counsel’