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May 14, 2021 8:41 am
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Connecticut Speaker of the House Matthew Ritter helps pick which bills make it to his fellow legislators for a final vote. What he’s looking for in those bills is investment in long-term growth.
Ritter talked about his priorities in an appearance on WNHHFM’s “The Municipal Voice,” hosted by the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHH, as the legislative season draws to a close.
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Madison Hahamy |
May 13, 2021 8:45 am
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A lawsuit by New York City against Chipotle alleging unfair labor practices might be the momentum a Connecticut “fair work week” bill needs to finally pass the Connecticut General Assembly.
Bottle deposit machines on every corner. Breezes free of incinerated trash particles. No litter in sight.
Climate activist Louis Rosado Burch painted this idyllic picture to Dwight neighbors as the outcome if the Connecticut General Assembly passes a new version of the bottle bill.
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Kevin Maloney |
May 5, 2021 8:55 am
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Despite overall higher income taxes in New York than Connecticut, some families face a higher tax burden in Connecticut.
That math works out because of New York’s child tax credit, something Connecticut Voices for Children proposes the state adopt. The nonprofit’s Research and Policy Director Lauren Ruth and Research and Policy Fellow Patrick O’Brien joined WNHHFM’s “The Municipal Voice” to discuss their support for the tax credit and more.
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Madison Hahamy |
Apr 30, 2021 9:07 am
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John Lugo, Community Organizing Director of Unidad Latina en Accion, and Megan Fountain, Coordinator of Advocacy and Partnerships.
She was pregnant. She had a 2‑year-old child. And she got Covid-19.
Because her employer didn’t have to offer her sick days, she faced a choice: Stay home and let her family go hungry. Or go to work sick and contagious.
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Luke Melonakos-Harrison |
Apr 28, 2021 12:02 pm
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The state courthouse at 121 Elm St.: home to New Haven’s housing court.
(Opinion)—Because of its proven effectiveness in reducing evictions and protecting the rights of tenants, the Right to Counsel for Evictions bill currently under consideration by the Connecticut legislature is vitally important to trans and other LGBTQ people.
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Madison Hahamy |
Apr 26, 2021 8:50 am
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Attendees participating in a “die-in” in front of City Hall.
With singing, dancing, impassioned testimonies, and the support of multiple lawmakers, New Haven’s immigrant and workers’ rights group Semilla Collective hosted a rally supporting a state’s “HUSKY for Immigrants” bill.
City Plan Chair Radcliffe, Vice-Chair Mattison, and Alder Marchand.
A lawyer for a sexual abuse victim of Rabbi Daniel Greer posed tough questions this week about how Greer’s nonprofits operate and use, or misuse, income meant to strengthen neighborhoods.
Another city agency, meanwhile, rubber-stamped another $900,000 for those same nonprofits without asking a single question.
DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes: We need nature-based climate change solutions.
More trees planted in the Hill. Less pollution in the West River.
These are some of the ideas for what to do with $1 million now available from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a longtime cap-and-invest program for power plants in the northeast.
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Emily Hays |
Apr 19, 2021 11:47 am
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Madeline Gersch, 7, with mom, Sarah Levine.
Edgewood first-grader Madeline Gersch has to read a word roughly 50 times before she can recognize it on the page. This process takes longer when she guesses words instead of sounding them out.
Madeline has dyslexia. Her mother is a reading specialist in New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) and gets frustrated when she sees her daughter learning reading techniques that slow down her progress.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 15, 2021 4:51 pm
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Imprisoned Rabbi Greer: Applying again for housing tax credits.
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Greer company-owned rental properties on Elm Street in Edgewood.
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Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Jr., who chairs the aldermanic committee that reviews NAA submissions: No comment on whether he will again green-light Greer’s tax credits.
Six nonprofits controlled by Rabbi Daniel Greer have applied yet again for up to $900,000 in government subsidies for declining Edgewood rental properties — while Greer’s sex assault victim accuses him of continued legal maneuvers to avoid paying him a $22 million penalty.
Connecticut’s secretary of the state, Denise Merrill, popped into Hamden Wednesday to make a pitch to leave behind Connecticut’s “18th century voting system” and allow more voters to vote before Election Day and expand access to absentee ballots.
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Thomas Breen |
Apr 5, 2021 7:53 pm
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The deadly Ella T. Graso-Columbus-Davenport-Orange Avenue intersection.
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Proposed pedestrian safety upgrades.
The city plans to sell a small portion of publicly-owned land near the Ella T. Grasso-Orange-Columbus-Davenport Avenue intersection to the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to help facilitate long-awaited pedestrian safety improvements to New Haven’s deadliest stretch of road for pedestrians.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 31, 2021 6:03 pm
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Local climate activists outside City Hall in 2019.
The city plans to spend $60,000 on a new sustainability-focused staffer.
Local climate activists are pushing city government to dedicate $1.1 million to promote reduced emissions, clean energy jobs, and climate education.
And a state legislative committee advanced a regional climate and transportation accord that could see hundreds of millions of dollars spent over the next decade on cleaner public transportation in air-polluted communities like New Haven.
Riding the bus will be free on weekends this summer, as part of a new statewide push to restart Connecticut’s economy by encouraging more residents to use public transit.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 30, 2021 10:55 am
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Colin Caplan and Kevin Gagliard display Pepe’s’ trademark clam pizza.
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Bill baker Dillon at hearing.
Pizza is one pie closer to becoming the official state food, as New Haveners pitched state lawmakers on recognizing the local culinary delicacy’s role in fostering community, uplifting small businesses, and satisfying taste buds.
Diesel buses, be gone? TCI seeks electrifying impact.
New Haven is the 11th most dangerous city in the country when it comes to asthma rates, asthma-induced emergency department visits, and asthma-related fatalities.
A new regional initiative touted by local and state advocates seeks to curb that urban air quality harm by capping greenhouse gas emissions and investing in more sidewalks, bike lanes, and electric buses — a move opponents say will only hurt Connecticut residents in the form of a higher gas tax.
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The proposed 4-story, 69-unit apartment building at 340 Dixwell.
Four local affordable housing projects will be getting over $5.4 million in state support, thanks to the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority’s (CHFA) annual awarding of federal Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC).
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 26, 2021 9:35 am
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Labor Committee Co-Chairs Julie Kushner and Robyn Porter, in support of gig economy study bill.
State lawmakers advanced a bill that would study — but not take any immediate action on — whether or not Uber and Lyft drivers and other gig economy “independent contractors” should be classified instead as employees.
Housekeeper Everlana Allen with fellow workers at a protest outside the Omni in August 2020.
Following in the steps of New Haven’s Board of Alders, state lawmakers advanced a “worker recall law” that would require Connecticut businesses to give recently laid-off former employees first dibs at returning to their old jobs.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 24, 2021 5:00 pm
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Rideshare drivers rallying Wednesday outside Union Station.
A state bill to help Uber and Lyft drivers organize unions has made for strange bedfellows: The drivers are lined up with their employers, and against the state AFL-CIO.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 24, 2021 9:18 am
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A New Haven-backed state bill designed to protect Black patients from potentially inaccurate blood-oxygen readings advanced out of committee and towards the full state legislature for further debate.
