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May 28, 2020 1:54 pm
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City Budget Director / Acting Controller Michael Gormany at hearing.
New Haven property owners who have lost at least 20 percent of their income due to Covid-19 can pay their taxes three months late this coming fiscal year without incurring any penalties.
Before receiving such a benefit, they first must apply to the city by June 30, and they must promise — if not necessarily prove — that they really have suffered such a pandemic-induced economic hardship.
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May 27, 2020 3:02 pm
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Lamont, Elicker polish off mozzarella, tomato, and basil.
Gov. Ned Lamont and Mayor Justin Elicker took advantage of the state’s recent resumption of outdoor, sit-down dining to partake in a time-honored tradition among state Democratic politicos: a power meal at Portofino’s.
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May 21, 2020 3:35 pm
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Paramedics retrieve RegalCare resident in April.
State health inspectors found that a Fair Haven Heights nursing home hard hit by Covid-19 had an inadequate supply of protective gowns, an incomplete system of screening temperatures and oxygen levels, and an overall deficient infection control program to protect residents, visitors, and staff.
Citing concerns about the spread of Covid-19, Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order Wednesday decreeing that all registered Democrats and Republicans can vote in the Aug. 11 party primaries by mail-in absentee ballot.
Protesters outside Skull & Combs barber shop on State Street.
Standing shoulder to shoulder outside of a State Street barbershop, several dozen protesters waved American flags and “Don’t Tread on Me” signs as they decried what one Branford salon owner described as the “dictatorship” of Gov. Ned Lamont.
It might be time to order that Flowbee after all, now that Gov. Ned Lamont has changed his mind about allowing barber shops and salons to open this week.
(Opinion) I’m at the Osborn Correctional Institution. My story begins on April 20, well after the prison knew about the seriousness of the coronavirus.
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May 14, 2020 5:19 pm
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Jordan’s Hot Dogs & Mac’s Corey Spruill Thursday, ready for business.
Outside J.P. Dempsey’s on State Street.
City officials and state business leaders are hustling to get the word out about the upcoming phased statewide “reopening” — which comes with a host of recommendations, rules, detailed planning, and apprehension around how this economic experiment can be done safely during a pandemic.
Connecticut’s Republican Party chairman called on the governor to cancel the Aug. 11 presidential primaries and vowed to work hard to unseat incumbent Democrats despite the limitations on campaigning amid a pandemic.
A New Haven state legislative candidate has joined a legal effort to allow candidates petitioning for election ballots this year to obtain signatures electronically — and get more time to collect fewer names.
Note: Jason Bartlett (pictured) is challenging incumbent State Sen. Gary Winfield for the Democratic nomination this year.
As a former state legislator, it pains me to say this, but Connecticut’s General Assembly during the COVID-19 pandemic has abdicated its responsibilities, and should forego all salaries from the day they shut their doors to the opening of the next session. If you work hard you should get paid, but if you close your doors and decide you are not essential, why should you be paid? Maybe a better course would be to donate your salaries to the front-line workers.
April Capone has a story to tell voters. And she has a story to tell her potential future colleagues in the state legislature.
One story is about a hurricane. The other story is about a town that endured a national controversy over violent, racist policing — and emerged stronger.
The state has at least 1,500 prisoners it can immediately release from behind bars during the Covid-19 pandemic to keep them, and everyone else, safer, in the view of Justin Farmer.
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Thomas Breen |
May 1, 2020 10:25 am
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New Haven unemployment claims that have been processed by the state between January and mid-April.
Nearly 5,600 New Haveners applied for and received state unemployment benefits between March 15 and April 12, marking a tenfold increase since the same time period last year.
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Apr 24, 2020 10:04 am
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While towns and cities have been fighting the spread of Covid-19, delayed economic plans and property taxes have limited local government revenues. State Office of Policy and Management (OPM) Undersecretary Martin Heft plans to help local governments get out of the financial crunch.
Doug McCrory watched government money wash ashore to help businesses survive — and mostly flow away from minority-owned businesses in Connecticut’s cities.
So he, Howard K. Hill and Kim Hawkins decided to start a new stream of emergency dollars. They know more upstream swimming will be needed.
