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Mar 15, 2018 5:41 pm
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Ganim, Walker and Harp pitch for Bridgeport and New Haven (top); Davis and Maynard pitch for tribal casino underway in East Windsor.
Hartford — Mayor Toni Harp and Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim joined forces here to urge lawmakers to pave the way for a new casino for a region suffering staggering unemployment. They made a simple pitch: We need jobs.
Advocates of a tribal casino planned for East Windsor sought to complicate that narrative.
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Mar 15, 2018 1:56 pm
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Angel Fernandez-Chavero.
The city plans to send an inspector out into the field for the first time in a year and half to monitor the hiring of women and minorities on construction projects — with some new digital tools that will ultimately make results visible to the public.
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Mar 14, 2018 4:35 pm
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A Local 33 street-blocking protest.
Four major national unions announced a new partnership on Wednesday that will seek to put pressure on private universities like Yale to negotiate with graduate student teachers who have already voted to unionize.
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Mar 13, 2018 2:20 pm
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Miller’s truck lined up for more salt.
Snow plow driver Al Miller behind the wheel Tuesday.
As the snow finallly transitioned from a light flurry to a heavier fall late Tuesday morning, Al Miller shifted from the prep work of spreading salt to actually bringing his truck’s plow blade to the ground to keep downtown streets clear.
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Mar 9, 2018 2:39 pm
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Candidates await police commission vote on their applications.
After owning up to smoking pot, three top-scoring police recruits almost didn’t get the job — until police commissioners intervened and voted to let their past drug use slide.
Alder and union steward Kim Edwards addresses Monday’s rally.
As a move to crush government unions landed at the U.S. Supreme Court Monday, labor activists took to New Haven’s City Hall steps to declare their determination to fight on, whatever the outcome.
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Feb 7, 2018 9:25 am
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Union members turn out for Tuesday night’s downtown event.
State Rep. Toni Walker, co-sponsor of casino bill, addresses rally.
New Haven’s labor unions flexed their political muscle to back MGM Resorts’s proposed casino in Bridgeport, as a showdown begins over tribal nations’ competing plans.
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Jan 25, 2018 8:52 am
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Highsmith, Clemons, Copeland, and Key Bank Connecticut President f Jeff Hubbard.
A woman in the phlebotomy training class had been doing well, and then not. Then she dropped out completely.
Staff figured out the problem: She had become homeless. They put her in touch with an agency that could help. She got a place to live, she returned to the phlebotomy program, she graduated, and she is now gainfully employed.
Board chair Pappano (at left): Switching roles. Edelstein (at right): On leave for alleged sexual misconduct.
New Haven’s arts world had its Harvey Weinstein moment Monday — and a woman steeped in combatting the “second-class status” of women was called on to take charge.
In response to complaints from its workers, the state judicial department is working with United Illuminating to stop sending fumes and ear-splitting noise into the Elm Street courthouse.
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Jan 16, 2018 3:08 pm
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Borer being sworn in by Audrey Kramer.
Firefighter Timothy Borer passed all the required tests and assessments, so he was promoted and sworn in Tuesday to become a fire inspector.
However, as long as he stays in that position, there will be no formal annual review of his work to help him improve at the job. Neither the department nor the firefighters’ union contract requires one.
Fire Chief John Alston, Jr. wants to change all that. By going first.
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Jan 11, 2018 9:06 am
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“You can create entry-level jobs anywhere,” observed Chris Walker, a University of Connecticut junior who studies urban development and economics, “but people with a college degree need a reason to stay.
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Conklin at Monday night’s commission meeting.
A former detective with a past checkered with misconduct is once again a sworn officer in New Haven, after a vote and secretive deliberations by the Police Commission.
(Updated) Keron Bryce has been New Haven’s “cop of the week” three times in just five years on the force — and like some other young black and Latina officers may already be joining an exodus to suburban police forces.
Casanova and Campbell at a Police Commission meeting.
Assistant Police Chief Luiz Casanova is asking a federal judge to do what he couldn’t convince Mayor Toni Harp to do: name him New Haven’s police chief.
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Oct 26, 2017 8:07 am
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Proto outside polls with campaign team: Ken Lomme, Laura Kennington, Michael Dowd, Tyisha Walker, Dave White, Barbara Vereen, Rich Esposito.
Challenger Shirley Lawrence.
New Haven’s top labor leader Wednesday night vowed to reach out more to his union’s newer members after surviving his first electoral challenge in over two decades.
In a test of whether labor relations might change at City Hall, Mayor Toni Harp and the newly elected president of city government’s management and professional union promised Monday to take a fresh look at a dispute on which both sides have deadlocked for years.
