by | Oct 31, 2018 12:11 pm | Comments (2)
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Yale cops protesting before deal was struck.
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Officer Martin Parker, outside polls, prepares community Halloween party.
While New Haven’s police force remains in arbitration over a new contract, Yale cops voted 67 – 2 Tuesday to ratify a long-awaited new pact with the university.
Continue reading ‘Yale Police Union Ratifies 7-Year Contract’
by | Oct 26, 2018 8:32 am | Comments (19)
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Jones (at left): Hire fund manager. Agrawal: Don’t.
A new city government working group is considering investing a small sum in the stock market in hopes of eventually earning back at least a hundred million dollars that it owes to its public employees.
by | Oct 25, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (4)
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Stanley Johnson squatted by a 9,000-pound Norway spruce he’d just hauled to the Green so that 30,000 colored lights can again cast a dreamy glow across the center of town.
by | Oct 25, 2018 8:00 am | Comments (5)
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Under a sign that read “Fighting For Our Future,” three local boys belted out “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” before a crowd of about 400 people who marched for accountability in downtown New Haven Wednesday evening — accountability on jobs from the city’s largest employer, and Election Day accountability from their neighbors. While Avion Downes and Shawn Sufra, fellow members of the anti-violence youth group Ice the Beef, backed him up, Javion Hines sang:
The road is long
with many a winding turn
that leads to who knows where
Who knows where
But I’m strong …
by | Oct 18, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (6)
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YPD Officer Joe Funaro, a negotiating committee member, turned to a vuvuzela to make his point at a protest.
It took 28 months and 74 bargaining sessions, but Yale’s police union has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
If the rank and file vote approval, the agreement will run seven years.
by | Oct 17, 2018 8:24 am | Comments (6)
Potential union veeps Pat DeLucia, Jennifer Wells-Jackson, Kirsten Hopes-McFadden.
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Tom Burns announces prez run.
At the last minute, another challenger emerged in the heated contest for the presidency of the teachers union, along with a full slate of aspirants to the number-two spot.
by | Oct 16, 2018 7:43 am | Comments (15)
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Matteson with Alder Clyburn after her “no” vote.
Alder Rodriguez, who championed Matteson’s confirmation.
The Board of Alders for the first time exercised its power to scuttle top mayoral appointments by voting down the the Harp administration’s choice for the next chief administrative officer.
by | Oct 12, 2018 2:01 pm | Comments (14)
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Police union prez Craig Miller gives Lawlor a farewell hug at City Hall Friday.
Next Wednesday morning, Patricia Lawlor plans to show up for the same employer she has served since Dwight Eisenhower was president.
She plans to arrive at City Hall by 6:30 as usual. Before anyone else gets there.
by | Oct 12, 2018 1:54 pm | Comments (9)
Thorne announces challenge vs. Cicarella (below).
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The role of New Haven’s teachers union is being seriously debated for the first time in a decade, as its longtime president faces a challenge from within his ranks.
by | Oct 11, 2018 7:59 am | Comments (15)
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Sean Matteson at his hearing Wednesday night.
Grilled at a two-hour-long confirmation hearing, the returning City Hall official Mayor Toni Harp has tapped to oversee city services said his first priority will be reining in runaway police and fire overtime costs.
by | Oct 4, 2018 8:09 am | Comments (17)
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Still from video showing Redente pushing student.
A Wilbur Cross employee dedicated to helping struggling youth lost his cool with one of the hardest-to-reach kids and ended up with a 15-day suspension without pay.
by | Oct 2, 2018 1:01 pm | Comments (1)
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Hedy Montez, Mariel Herrera, James Bhandary-Alexander at WNHH FM.
Rosa Morales went to see “that lawyer on State Street.” Then she lost her job.
by | Sep 28, 2018 7:54 am | Comments (2)
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On September 27, 2018, at 1202 hours I was dispatched to 101 Ashmun St. in response to a larceny complaint.
by | Sep 24, 2018 8:08 am | Comments (10)
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Richard Cowes talks about becoming a math teacher after a career in business.
A decade ago, Richard Cowes quit his high-paying job in the insurance industry to go into education. He started off teaching as a substitute, earning $50 a day, just to see what the profession would be like. After he completed an alternative certification program, New Haven hired him to teach math classes.
Continue reading ‘City Looks Within Ranks To Groom Teachers Of Color’
by | Sep 21, 2018 8:08 am | Comments (7)
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Daniels parent Maria Flores at protest.
The John C. Daniels Inderdistrict Magnet School library has become a “ghost town.” The science fair, the school play, the book fair, and the student-made school bulletin are in jeaprody. The website is not being updated. Setting up and linking the teachers’ computers have also become difficult.
Meanwhile, the school’s longtime library media specialist, Patricia McGovern, the person who knows where to find the light switch in the auditorium and every room key, has been cut from full to half time. That has meant a loss of institutional memory in a school that has seen changing leadership over the last years.
Continue reading ‘Daniels Parents Plead With Birks On Staff Cuts’
by | Sep 17, 2018 11:35 pm | Comments (17)
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Chief Anthony Campbell to cadets: You’re the future of policing.
Three months behind schedule, a new crop of students arrived for their first day of classes this week: the 31 police cadets who’ll be trained at the policy academy.
by | Sep 14, 2018 2:07 pm | Comments (41)
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Chief Campbell: Arrest spike reflects “what people are going through.”
Police Chief Anthony Campbell took office promising to tackle domestic violence — and now finds himself addressing it among his own ranks.
In the last three months, four of Campbell’s officers have been arrested on charges of domestic violence.
by | Sep 14, 2018 7:50 am | Comments (5)
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Zannelli and Dell at Tuesday’s Police Commission meeting.
A wave of retirements has led the police department to shuffle the deck in Internal Affairs and the Fair Haven and Westville districts.
by | Sep 6, 2018 12:28 pm | Comments (6)
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Yale cops picketing in front of Woosely Hall this spring.
After 27 months of bargaining with Yale University, the university’s police force is still without a contract. Both the university and the cops’ union president say progress has been made but a proposed change to retiree health care benefits could blow up the process by the end of the week.
by | Sep 5, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (12)
Roth and Festa want to know who has access to a city credit card.
A recent revelation that a now-ex-city employee allegedly ran up an unauthorized $11,000 tab on a city credit card has caused two alders to request a public hearing to probe deeper into which other employees have access to government-issued cards, what they’re using them for and why they have them.
Continue reading ‘Credit Card Fraud Prompts Call For Public Hearing’
by | Sep 3, 2018 10:06 am | Comments (2)
(Opinion)—A day off to celebrate work might seem strange, but actually Labor Day is like most all-American holidays — a commemoration born of a struggle for a better life.
by | Sep 3, 2018 10:04 am | Comments (4)
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Unemployment in Connecticut is at a post-recession low but many families continue to struggle in the Nutmeg State where wage growth remains low, according to a new report from the New Haven-based Connecticut Voices for Children.
by | Aug 24, 2018 9:19 am | Comments (47)
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New Haven Academy co-founders Meredith Gavrin & Greg Baldwin.
Themes displayed outside New Haven Academy
A plan to break up the two-person team that founded and runs New Haven Academy, one of the city’s leading schools, has caused chaos and sparked outrage days before the opening of the academic year.
by | Aug 24, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (20)
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Cheryl Brown, president of the administrators union.
Principals newly tasked with running the district’s summer school programs are looking for a bump in their six-figure salaries. The new schools superintendent argues they already have year-round jobs.
by | Aug 24, 2018 7:46 am | Comments (30)
The Harp administration fired a veteran government employee after an audit revealed over $11,000 in unauthorized charges to a city credit card.