by | Jul 24, 2019 7:40 am | Comments (4)
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John Cunningham, David Jarvis, and Bart Pacekonis.
Seven members of the carpenters union held a banner protest this week outside the offices of a local construction company, Whiting Turner Contracting Company at 195 Church St.
by | Jul 22, 2019 5:13 pm | Comments (4)
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Paul Kowalski testifying in one of the legal aid lead-paint court cases.
The embattled head of New Haven’s lead paint enforcement program has retired after 39 years with the city.
by | Jul 22, 2019 4:44 pm | Comments (55)
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Pinto (at left). Birks: “Change is hard” but “necessary.”
Superintendent Carol Birks repeatedly mocked, insulted and demeaned her top staff, according to a “hostile work environment” complaint her chief operating officer has filed.
by | Jul 22, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (19)
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Ellen Cupo at Sunday’s campaign kick off.
Labor organizer Ellen Cupo kicked off her campaign to be the next Wooster Square alder with a commitment to fighting for affordable housing and community-developer communication in one of the hottest real estate markets in the city.
by | Jul 17, 2019 8:03 am | Comments (8)
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Tom Burns: Overturned election he can’t run in anymore.
A challenger who was 20 votes short of becoming the teachers union president successfully overturned the results of last year’s closely contested election.
But not for any of the reasons he’d alleged in an appeal to the national union. Instead, a technicality that left 27 private school teachers and nurses off the local’s rolls invalidated the results.
Along the way, the challenger inadvertently found himself accused of blackmail and barred from mounting a rematch.
Continue reading ‘New Election Ordered For Teachers Union President’
by | Jul 15, 2019 4:03 pm | Comments (3)
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Asst. Chief Racheal Cain addresses a community gathering in Dixwell.
Racheal Cain has become the third top New Haven cop in four months to retire and take a job with the New Haven State’s Attorney’s Office.
Continue reading ‘State’s Attorney Snags Another Asst. Chief’
by | Jul 15, 2019 2:26 pm | Comments (10)
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NHFD’s Keith Kerr treats man who overdosed on heroin.
The city and the firefighters union have reached an agreement that would allow department minimum staffing levels to drop from 72 to 69 per shift, if the chief is open to scrapping all of the department’s ambulance units.
by | Jul 15, 2019 7:48 am | Comments (49)
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Tiffany Jones Saturday on Butler Street.
Tiffany Jones is “one of the one thousand,” she says — one of the employees Yale recruited as part of a promise to hire New Haven residents within three years of April 2015. Now Jones has been helping put up signs across the city to pressure Yale to make good on that promise for other New Haveners seeking employment.
by | Jul 11, 2019 7:58 am | Comments (10)
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Applicants fill out forms in the basement of the main library branch.
Selena Martinez — Amazon’s “number one customer” — is ready not just to receive packages at her door, but help send them to other doors.
by | Jul 10, 2019 3:31 pm | Comments (2)
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Hamden Mayor Curt Leng.
Hamden’s teachers union Wednesday announced that it has endorsed Mayor Curt Leng’s reelection campaign.
by | Jul 8, 2019 3:44 pm | Comments (7)
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A ]sign at the latest Board of Ed meeting, where parents and teachers spent hours calling for the superintendent’s departure.
As the Board of Education works on a deal to show Superintendent of Schools Carol Birks the door, one member is suggesting a time-out.
by | Jul 4, 2019 8:54 am | Comments (0)
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Doyle inspects at a rooming house inspection.
Fire Marshal Bobby Doyle is leaving his post for a job at Yale, following in the footsteps of his deputy.
by | Jul 3, 2019 7:52 am | Comments (19)
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The North Haven plant entrance.
Hundreds of potential jobs are awaiting New Haveners — and the city has arranged to help people both get them and get to them.
Continue reading ‘City Links New Haveners To New Amazon Jobs’
by | Jul 2, 2019 6:51 am | Comments (10)
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Union Prez Dave Cicarella, at school board meeting last month.
A modest retirement incentive wasn’t attractive enough to convince New Haven’s most experienced teachers to call it quits early.
by | Jun 28, 2019 8:14 am | Comments (28)
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Chief Reyes at a Board of Police Commissioners meeting.
Mayor Toni Harp has settled on her choice for a new top city cop: Otoniel Reyes.
by | Jun 27, 2019 7:51 am | Comments (1)
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Police Chief Community Input & Transparency Committee.
A room full of Hamden residents offered a clear message Wednesday evening regarding the search for a new police chief: “Hire from within the department.”
Continue reading ‘Crowd’s Message On Hamden Top Cop Search: Hire From Within’
by | Jun 25, 2019 7:54 am | Comments (59)
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Valerie Horsley, Jim Owens at Monday night’s school board meeting.
Board discusses Birks’s performance in 2-hour executive session.
Superintendent Carol Birks during public criticism.
Superintendent Carol Birks’s job appeared to hang in the balance, as school board members heard parents and educators call for her firing, then retreated behind closed doors to discuss her future.
For nearly two hours, in a private discussion in Celentano School’s library, Board of Education members talked about her performance and asked their lawyer to begin to negotiate the terms of Birks’s exit from the district, several of them said afterwards.
by | Jun 25, 2019 7:41 am | Comments (0)
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Holberton School New Haven Director Nadine Krause.
A local outpost of a Silicon Valley-founded coding school celebrated its official ribbon-cutting in Fair Haven, and is already two cohorts in to its tuition-free training of the state’s next generation of computer scientists.
Continue reading ‘DISTRICT’s Coding School Ribbon Cut; Data Academy Coming Next’
by | Jun 24, 2019 4:07 pm | Comments (46)
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Top cop finalists Reyes, Reddish, Howell at a recentNewhallville forum.
After interviewing three finalists for the police chief job, Mayor Toni Harp may look for more candidates before making a final decision.
by | Jun 24, 2019 7:34 am | Comments (12)
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Deputy Superintendent Evie Velazquez: Out.
The school’s deputy superintendent, Ivelise Velazquez, will resign within a month to pursue her doctorate at Columbia University’s Teachers College and eventually find work that’s “more appropriately aligned” with her goals for early literacy and racial equity.
by | Jun 19, 2019 5:00 pm | Comments (22)
Union leaders strategize before meeting with the mayor: Fire union prez Frank Ricci, union attorney Marshall Segar, financial adviser Tom Cama, Police union prez Cotto, Fire union pension board rep Patrick Cannon, and Fire union exec board member Greg Boivin.
• Move aims to help government workers earn more on extra money they put towards retirement.
• Issues aired at tense City Hall confab.
by | Jun 19, 2019 8:11 am | Comments (12)
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Warren Waller addresses the police commissioners.
Seven veteran cops — most of whom used to wear a New Haven badge — are set to relaunch their careers as Yale Police with a mission of public trust, thanks to a vote Tuesday night by New Haven’s Board of Police Commissioners.
by | Jun 18, 2019 3:49 pm | Comments (2)
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Joey Rodriguez, being sworn in at a March 2018 meeting.
Joseph Rodriguez plans to step down from the Board of Education on Sept. 1.
Continue reading ‘Rodriguez To Resign From Board Of Education’
by | Jun 14, 2019 1:21 pm | Comments (9)
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Chief search finalists Reyes, Reddish, Howell address crowd.
The finalists for New Haven’s police chief job — who all have experience on the local force — spoke with Newhallville neighbors Thursday night about the need to hire more cops of color and tackle implicit bias.
by | Jun 13, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (11)
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Dave Cicarella, at Monday night’s school board meeting.
The teachers union is hoping a buyout package can help close a looming budget deficit and avoid the possibility of layoffs.