Local housing authority President DuBois-Walton: State should treat housing authorities like any other developer.
Suburbanites testify at hearing.
At passionate state hearing: • New Haveners push to break suburban housing/race barriers. • Suburbanites push back vs. allowing housing authorities to build in their towns. • “Take bold action”; “This has nothing to do with race.”
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Feb 19, 2021 10:23 am
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What if the equations that dictate how Connecticut disseminates Covid dollars encourage segregation?
Stamford Mayor David Martin discussed how the state miscalculates diversity on this week’s episode of The Municipal Voice, a co-production of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHH.
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Madison Hahamy |
Feb 17, 2021 12:34 pm
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Pulse oximeters, a central tool in monitoring oxygen levels of those stricken with Covid-19, can be three times as likely to provide a misreading in Black patients. Patricia Dillon wants to do something about that.
New Haveners testifying Tuesday included (clockwise from top left) Martin Looney, Harold Brooks, Kelcy Steele, Jenna McDermit, Hyclis Williams, Abby Roth.
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Teachers, preachers, politicians, and presidents of local unions sent an urgent plea from New Haven Tuesday to the state legislature: Change how you reimburse us for revenue on property owned by our tax-exempt colleges and hospitals.
At stake is a roughly $50 million potential annual boost to the city budget — and, advocates say, a more equitable means of distributing state aid to poor, historically marginalized communities.
Zinn (top right) Zooms in on proposed Whitney changes.
The city’s Engineering Department has restarted $2.7 million in plans to reconfigure Whitney Avenue to encourage slower car speeds, safer pedestrian crossings, and easier access for cyclists hoping not to get slammed by a motor vehicle.
New Haveners will have an opportunity Tuesday to weigh in on whether or not the state should send more money to poor cities that can’t collect property taxes on land owned by tax-exempt hospitals and colleges.
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Lauren Garrett |
Feb 15, 2021 10:15 am
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Our schools are short-changed by millions.
(Opinion) Educational Cost Sharing (ECS) is a funding mechanism that was intended to level the playing field in funding school districts. Instead, it has benefited majority-white schools.
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Kevin Maloney |
Feb 5, 2021 11:22 am
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When Suzette DeBeatham-Brown decided to run for mayor of Bloomfield, some constituents said that they didn’t like the way she looked or sounded. She knew that was part of why her candidacy mattered.
New Haven State Rep. Toni Walker (right, at GOTV rally in October): Back co-chairing powerful Appropriations Committee.
Let the housing authority build more affordable apartments — in the suburbs.
That’s the thrust of one of 179 proposals and counting that New Haven and Hamden state lawmakers have put on the table so far during the current state legislative session.
“Grey” area represents fixed costs that, according to mayor, can’t be cut.
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Mayor Elicker: Crunch “nearly impossible to fix.”
As of Thursday, next fiscal year’s projected city deficit looks $25 million bleaker than it did on Wednesday, thanks to a slate of new estimates and recommendations regarding how the city funds its pensions.
Safe-streets advocates at recent memorial for crash victims.
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Lemar at hearing: Traffic violence continues, must be stopped.
Safe streets advocates fed up with the daily danger of walking or biking in New Haven “traveled” to a state hearing Wednesday to support a proposed speed camera law that would automatically send tickets to drivers who hurtle through school zones and road-repair sites.
Looney: Gold Coast millionaires can cough up $50 to $400.
In New Haven, here’s the pitch: If you own a $500,000 house, you’ll pay an extra $50 a year. In return, New Haven would be on its way to getting tens of millions of dollars more back from the state.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 25, 2021 5:19 pm
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Before and after: Plan for Winthrop-Edgewood stretch of cycletrack, with construction first promised to begin in 2017.
Could it be … that construction work may actually begin on the Edgewood Cycletrack and Farmington Canal extension?
After years of false starts and missed deadlines, officials claim that work will indeed start this spring on the two long-delayed upgrades to the city’s pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure.
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Maya McFadden |
Jan 20, 2021 10:23 am
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Prison reform advocates are calling for the closure of Northern Correctional Institution, the state’s only maximum-security prison, followed by a reinvestment in the prison’s dollars to programs for those released from incarceration to reintegrate back into their community.
New Haven and Hamden are teaming up with Branford and Guilford — or at least their chief elected officials are — on a cause that used to pit cities against suburbs.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 19, 2021 4:47 pm
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Music Haven string quartet members play on during an October concert.
Online programming. Student scholarships. Staff health insurance. And essential connections between young people and joyful creativity, even amidst such a joyless time as now.
Local arts nonprofit leaders pointed to those services as example of how they’ve spent state grant money to date as they struggle to stay afloat during the ongoing pandemic.
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Jan 19, 2021 4:46 pm
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Connecticut already had racial and economic inequalities and a health care crisis before Covid-19. But the pandemic brought them into relief — and opened a door to change.
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Jan 19, 2021 4:34 pm
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SBA state director Catherine Marx.
Local small businesses can take another crack at landing Covid emergency relief starting Tuesday, as the federal government rolls out a second phase of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).