by | Jun 15, 2018 3:46 pm | Comments (18)
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Nemerson testifying in Hartford in favor of expanding Tweed New Haven’s runway.
Mayor Toni Harp Friday placed Matthew Nemerson, her economic development chief, on an unpaid leave of absence.
by | Jun 15, 2018 3:45 pm | Comments (21)
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Commission Chair Dawson: “We’re not playing.”
Thirty-seven would-be New Haven cops were set to receive their appointments Thursday night — but now will have to wait while the department figures how much fabrication took place in their vetting process.
by | Jun 15, 2018 3:44 pm | Comments (28)
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Patrick Cannon confronts Daryl Jones about his department’s spending at a tense pension meeting.
Showdown at City Hall.
• “You don’t have the money!”
• “You’re out of order!”
by | Jun 15, 2018 2:40 pm | Comments (37)
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Mayor Toni Harp gave raises to top non-union managers and confidential employees, in some cases their first raises in four years. The move prompted outraged alders to launch an investigation.
by | Jun 13, 2018 12:33 pm | Comments (5)
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Moderator John Dankosky and panelist Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak.
Immigration aids the U.S. economy, despite myths to the contrary.
Continue reading ‘A&I Panel: Immigration Boosts The Economy’
by | Jun 13, 2018 8:03 am | Comments (53)
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Asst. Chief Cain: We took action.
A cop filed at least 17 false background-check reports on potential police officers, leading to reexaminations of their applications, an internal review found.
by | Jun 13, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (2)
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An iconic local theater was led for over a decade by a “big personality” whose personal charisma and artistic success made him “too big to be held accountable” for his rampant sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace.
Continue reading ‘Long Wharf Moves Past “Big Personality” Workplace Culture’
by | Jun 12, 2018 7:45 am | Comments (6)
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Assistant Chief Cain: New class 60 percent minority.
New Haven’s next class of cops contains more diversity than the department has ever seen — “by far,” said Police Chief Anthony Campbell.
It turns out the department didn’t need to find a more racially-attuned group of shrinks to get there.
Continue reading ‘Same Shrink, More Diversity For Cop Class’
by | Jun 8, 2018 8:20 am | Comments (19)
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Mom Tahania Cunningham: “They don’t care.”
Two months after her 14-year-old ended up gasping for air as a peanut allergy constricted his throat, a mother still hasn’t received a full explanation of what happened to her son.
No one running Engineering & Science University Magnet School told the mom that an assistant principal had handed out nut-filled candy, and was eventually let go.
by | May 24, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (0)
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Bolton receives congratulations from State. Rep. Toni Walker and The WorkPlace COO Adrienne Dean-Parkmond Thursday.
The empty seats of the people who missed the graduation for the “best reason in the world,” said The WorkPlace President & CEO Joe Carbone. They had to work.
Rochelle Bolton has been unemployed since July 10, 2017. Thanks to a program that helps those experiencing long-term unemployment get back to work, she’s confident that she’ll be employed again soon.
by | May 22, 2018 3:50 pm | Comments (9)
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Commissioner Greg Smith confers with Asst. Chief Racheal Cain.
Twenty-three-year-old New Haven Police Department hopeful Andrew Logan followed his uncle cop’s advice to the letter: Be totally honest and tell the truth about absolutely everything, including about the use of his girlfriend’s acne medication.
And he said he did.
But the polygraph decided otherwise.
by | May 10, 2018 8:40 am | Comments (28)
A school board member’s son has been placed on paid leave following a violent altercation with a student at Wilbur Cross High School last week.
by | May 4, 2018 7:25 am | Comments (7)
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A Wilbur Cross security guard has been placed on paid leave, as school administrators and state officials investigate an incident at the high school.
by | Apr 24, 2018 3:45 pm | Comments (13)
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Yale welcomed prospective students and their parents Tuesday with a speech from the president — and flyers from picketing union members about a scary crime in the dorms.
by | Apr 24, 2018 8:21 am | Comments (11)
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Rosa DeLauro at Monday night’s union endorsement rally.
“Over my dead body,” Rosa DeLauro declared to a rousing union endorsement rally, “will they rescind that funding.”
Continue reading ‘Labor Backs DeLauro; Battle For Nation’s “Soul” Invoked’
by | Apr 17, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (23)
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Colon delivers Black & Hispanic Caucus’ “State of the City” address.
Drawing on her own story as a working single mother who ascended to the middle class, the co-chair of the Black & Hispanic Caucus called out slumlords and put high-end developers on notice that affordable housing needs to be part of their plans for the Elm City.
Continue reading ‘Colon Slams Slumlords, Praises Hill Model’
by | Apr 13, 2018 8:15 am | Comments (4)
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Local 3144 members vote Thursday at Fire Training Academy.
The contract-less city’s management and professional employee union voted to approve a new five-year pact by a nearly two-to-one margin — following a labor trend of trading increased medical costs and added health care responsibilities in exchange for raises.
Continue reading ‘City Union Votes 175-93 To Trade Health Givebacks For Raises In New 5-Year Pact’
by | Apr 12, 2018 12:52 pm | Comments (38)
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Daniels as a PAL counselor in 2013.
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Daniels makes his plea this week.
Jamarr Daniels teared up as he told how his father died running the streets when Jamarr was 12. His five older brothers all followed their dad into the streets. Jamarr determined one day to become a cop.
Thwarted in that quest, he made a last-ditch appeal to commissioners who would decide his fate.
by | Apr 11, 2018 8:18 am | Comments (17)
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Hillhouse Senior Tytainya Gaines receives her unarmed security officer licensing training certificate at Tuesday’s graduation
Nineteen-year-old Tytainya Gaines is a certified emergency medical responder, and she’s working her way through an emergency medical technician program. On Tuesday she also became a licensed unarmed security officer.
Continue reading ‘13 Hillhouse Students Become Licensed Guards’
by | Apr 10, 2018 7:48 am | Comments (14)
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Following a clash on College Street in front of visiting prospective Yale parents, campus cops are calling on the university to grant them the same First Amendment rights granted to students.
Continue reading ‘Cops Accuse Yale Of Snatching Union Flyers’
by | Apr 5, 2018 8:10 am | Comments (13)
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Charles Ebert.
The city’s Commission on Equal Opportunities finally has a new “utilization monitor” to visit construction sites and hold builders’ feet to the fire for hiring women and minorities on building jobs. But who will lead the commission in the future remains uncertain.
Continue reading ‘CEO Gets New Monitor, Faces Uncertain Future’
by | Apr 3, 2018 1:35 pm | Comments (7)
Fifty years ago today, on April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his last public speech, which continues to haunt Americans today with its ringing tones of courage in the face of a possible assassination, which in fact occurred the next day.
Continue reading ‘50 Years Later, MLK’s Labor Message Revived’
by | Apr 3, 2018 8:06 am | Comments (4)
As some Democrats back home called on embattled U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty to resign in the wake of revelations of her mishandling a staff sexual harassment episode, two prominent Democrats interviewed in New Haven held their fire.
by | Mar 23, 2018 8:17 am | Comments (13)
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Organizer John Lugo addresses crowd at Ferry & State.
Fair Haven immigrants striking at a metal factory won the support Thursday afternoon of neighbors and activists who marched to offer the kind of street heat they say is needed to combat employers’ leverage over undocumented workers.
by | Mar 22, 2018 12:50 pm | Comments (0)
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New Haven city officials, with the help of Yale Law students, are seeking to leverage the buying power of major nonprofits to boost business and job creation. But first, they say, the state’s law on worker cooperatives has to change.