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Oct 19, 2020 10:33 am
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The Covid-19 pandemic forced Norwalk city employees, like those in the private sector, to work from home. Unlike other workers though, city employees have access to reams of sensitive information: tax records, HIPAA-protected health data, profiles of school children, arrest records and body camera footage.
With all of this information at risk, preventing a data breach is much more important than finding its cure, according to Connecticut cybersecurity experts.
Winfield and Bartlett during Wednesday night’s debate.
How do you run against an elected official with the top statewide reputation for championing criminal justice reform — as not doing enough on criminal justice reform?Jason Bartlett gave it a whirl in a debate Wednesday night.
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Maya Polan |
Oct 14, 2020 11:42 am
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(Opinion.) Voters in Connecticut deserve a competent state elections system and contemporary voting options available elsewhere, like early voting and absentee ballot tracking.
Erin Reilly tried to convert Maria Estela Hermosillo to a conservative vote. In return, Estela Hermosillo tried to convert Reilly to the Baha’i religion.
This week, two New Haveners stood outside of buildings in varying stages of construction or decay that they said symbolize the problems the state faces — and the problems that they are running for the State Senate to fix.
Eric Mastroianni was mid-speech about his military record and his top issues when Roseann Iuvone stopped him to say what she really cared about: Cars nearly running her over in her own neighborhood.
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Oct 5, 2020 5:59 pm
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Elicker leads group around the neighborhood.
New Haven’s mayor, Connecticut’s lieutenant governor, and one of the state’s U.S. senators were looking for someone exactly like Iris Monday when they went door-knocking in Newhallville.
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Kevin Maloney |
Oct 2, 2020 11:47 am
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While Darien has a reputation as an affluent coastal town, the town’s First Selectman Jayme Stevenson says she has plans to make sure that any person, of any race or ethnicity, feels comfortable living in Darien.
$3,092,389: That’s the average yearly income for the top 1 percent of Connecticut households — 41 times what the average household in Connecticut makes.
These findings cpme from an annual report released Wednesday by Connecticut Voices for Children (CT Voices).
Teacher Of The Year Kristin Mendoza (pictured): This is my chance to advocate.
When Wilbur Cross teacher Kristin Mendoza had the floor, she didn’t waste the chance to advocate for undocumented students facing extra disadvantages during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mendoza was selected by group of peers to be New Haven Public Schools’ Teacher Of The Year. Superintendent Iline Tracey invited her to give a brief acceptance speech at Monday’s Board of Education meeting.
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Sep 22, 2020 12:40 pm
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Ruiz on the steps of his apartment building, for now.
The state has turned off the tap on an emergency pandemic rental assistance program — leaving even “lucky” applicants like Jonathan Ruiz unsure if they’ll get any of the promised money.
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Kevin Maloney |
Sep 17, 2020 4:10 pm
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Norm Needleman’s secret to holding positions in local and state government at the same time is being a workaholic.
Needleman spoke of his roles as a state senator and the first selectman of the Town of Essex on the “Municipal Voice,” a co-production between the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHHFM.
Connecticut’s attorney general is suing Exxon Mobil over climate change — and New Haven’s mayor says the city has a multi-million-dollar stake in the outcome.
New Haven and state officials have greenlighted up to $900,000 in tax breaks for businesses that donate to nonprofit organizations controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer — organizations Greer has been accused of using to funnel money to himself and to avoid paying over $20 million to a former student he sexually abused.
Mayor Elicker and state transit chief Giulietti sign “letter of intent.”
Union Station will begin its second century with a bus hub in the works, new stores replacing planned new parking spaces, and the city in control of operations for 55 years.
State and local leaders — whose governments had been fighting over control and design of the station for decades — announced a proposed agreement to that effect Thursday afternoon at an event marking the historic train station’s 100th anniversary.
Don’t expect those promised new express busways or mini-hubs anytime soon for New Haven’s beleaguered public transit system.
But fewer bus stops? Tweaks to service times and convoluted routes? Those more incremental fixes may be on a closer horizon — pending state budget and staff priorities.
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Maya McFadden, Emily Hays and Thomas Breen |
Aug 20, 2020 5:35 pm
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Students, teachers rally at State Capitol for fully funded reopening.
Public appeals issued late this week — at a Hartford protest, via Facebook, and on a popular local radio show— illustrated just how wide of a gap still exists between those calling for all-online instruction to start the year, and those arguing for an in-person learning option.
The first day of school, meanwhile, is just two weeks away.
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Aug 18, 2020 1:28 pm
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State education commissioner Miguel Cardona: City can decide best path forward.
(Updated at 9:15 p.m.) The state education commissioner assured city leaders that the decision around how New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) reopens this fall — all remote, all in person, or a hybrid of the two — will be decided by local authorities, and not by the state.
He also encouraged the city’s school board to reconsider its vote to start the school year with 10 weeks of all-online learning, and to adopt a hybrid learning plan instead.
Inside Mauro-Sheridan soon before this spring’s school closure.
The following op-ed was written by 14 parents of children at eight different city public schools.
(Opinion) In New Haven, people who have the best interests of children at heart, as well as the wellbeing of teachers and other educators, have come to different conclusions about the safety of reopening the city’s public schools.
New Haven Public Schools elected officials and legal help will make their case to a state panel on Tuesday afternoon for why they believe the city school system should be allowed to reopen entirely online this fall.
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Darryl Brackeen, Jr. |
Aug 10, 2020 12:04 pm
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(Opinion) As a nation, we are facing troubling times during this pandemic. But the truth is many issues, gaps, and weaknesses have been exposed within so many of our state institutions. Not only the vulnerabilities in our healthcare system but equally true of our voting system as well.
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Thomas Breen |
Aug 7, 2020 6:15 pm
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Judge Victor Bolden.
A federal judge ruled against a group of landlords seeking to overturn the state’s eviction moratorium, finding that rental property owners do not have a Constitutional right to maximize profits during a pandemic.
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Aug 7, 2020 12:04 pm
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Landlord attorneys and Republican State Reps. Cara Pavalock-D’Amato, Doug Dubitsky, and Craig Fishbein.
As President Trump and top U.S. Senate Republicans push to extend a recently expired federal eviction moratorium, three GOP state representatives pressed for Connecticut to end its statewide eviction pause early.
They did so in their latest filing in an ongoing federal suit against the governor.
