by | Jul 28, 2020 4:07 pm | Comments (1)
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Waiting to register on Election Day 2018.
The State Senate Tuesday overwhelmingly approved bills designed to expand access to absentee voting this November, and to expand access to telehealth medical services through next spring.
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by | Jul 27, 2020 8:07 pm | Comments (12)
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New Haven State Sens. Gary Winfield and Martin Looney.
New Haven’s two state senators both plan on throwing their support behind an ambitious proposed police accountability bill up for debate in Hartford on Tuesday.
At stake, they said, is a rare opportunity to impose financial and professional consequences on police officers who abuse citizens’ civil rights.
by | Jul 24, 2020 10:45 am | Comments (29)
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State Reps. Toni Walker (center), Robyn Porter (right) after vote.
The recent Black Lives Matter protests bore their first legislative fruits Friday as the state House of Representatives, with New Haven lawmakers playing a leading role, passed a bill to make officers more accountable for harming civilians.
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by | Jul 23, 2020 3:41 pm | Comments (0)
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Guilford-Branford State Rep. Sean Scanlon speaking on House floor.
Remote access to healthcare during the pandemic got a boost from the state House of Representatives, as a bill requiring insurers to cover telehealth at the same rate as in-person services for the next half-year sailed through the lower chamber with a unanimous vote.
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by | Jul 21, 2020 4:12 pm | Comments (1)
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Insulin: soon to cost less in CT?
Six cents per dose.
That’s how much some of the most commonly used injectible diabetes medications cost when the government is allowed to negotiate insulin prices, according to a top local community health center doc who threw her support behind the state legislature’s bid to cap insulin costs and broaden access to government-negotiated savings.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Health Pushes State On Telehealth, Insulin Caps’
by | Jul 21, 2020 2:13 pm | Comments (2)
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The planned new 101 College St. biotower.
The city pulled in a $3 million state grant to help cover some of the infrastructure development costs associated with the planned new $100 million bioscience lab tower to be built at 101 College St.
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by | Jul 20, 2020 3:42 pm | Comments (23)
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Winfield takes lead at hearing.
The fate of seven arcane syllables has become a hotly contested ideological battleground as state lawmakers convene this week to consider a response to police accountability demands spurred by the death of George Floyd and subsequent nationwide protests.
by | Jul 17, 2020 11:02 am | Comments (43)
(Opinion) On Juneteenth, 200 residents of Darien joined in a Black Lives Matter vigil to honor the lives lost to police brutality, protest systemic racism in our country, and demonstrate their commitment to ending racial injustice. The protests in Darien and across our nation are a profound statement about the urgent need for change, and it is critical to this moment that we recognize the implications of racist policies that persist in Connecticut.
by | Jul 15, 2020 9:34 am | Comments (1)
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Sign on Orange Street.
Starting Wednesday morning, eligible low-income tenants who have struggled to pay rent because of the pandemic can apply to receive up to $4,000 in federally-funded, state-administered housing support.
Local tenant advocates warned that the $10 million program contains just a fraction of the money needed to help keep Connecticut renters in their homes during the Covid-19 crisis — and that the bureaucratic burden of the application process will likely lead to many needy residents falling through the cracks.
Continue reading ‘$10M Rental Assistance Program Launched; Tenant Advocates Wary’
by | Jul 2, 2020 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
A federal judge has for the second time quashed Jason Bartlett’s bid for rule changes to enable him to appear on the Aug. 11 State Senate primary ballot.
by | Jul 2, 2020 10:08 am | Comments (0)
After 40 years in journalism and 25 years covering the Capitol, Hearst Connecticut Media’s Ken Dixon is still learning on the job.
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by | Jun 29, 2020 9:25 pm | Comments (5)
A New Haven state senator joined with one of the state’s U.S. senators Monday to pump Connecticut’s “Juneteenth Agenda” to address police accountability and systemic racism.
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by | Jun 25, 2020 8:14 pm | Comments (37)
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Superintendent Tracey at Riverside Academy graduation.
• City schools pivot to governor’s call for full fall reopening.
• Now where will we find all those face masks?
by | Jun 19, 2020 10:12 am | Comments (1)
$125 billion was the number that shook the state.
The figure made a splash last year when retired lawyer Gordon Hamlin laid bare how deep Connecticut’s pension obligations go. On this week’s episode of the Municipal Voice, a co-production of the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities and WNHH FM, he spoke to that figure, what role municipalities can play, and who will be hit the hardest if state and local governments do nothing.
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by | Jun 17, 2020 5:06 pm | Comments (1)
Jason Bartlett is asking a federal judge for one more shot to get his name on a State Senate primary ballot this year.
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by | Jun 17, 2020 4:36 pm | Comments (4)
Denise Rogers with late husband Howard: Covid-struck, left in cold.
Denise Rogers told lawmakers a triple Covid horror story: How it hospitalized her. How it killed her husband. And how the state then turned down her quest to obtain workmen’s compensation benefits to continue to live.
Continue reading ‘Shuttle Driver Brings Covid Plea To State’
by | Jun 11, 2020 6:10 pm | Comments (3)
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Leslie Radcliffe, Rev. Steven Cousin: Seize the moment.
“Everything is on the table” as the state reexamines how policing is conducted, according to a New Haven minister who will help conduct that reexamination.
by | Jun 3, 2020 3:24 pm | Comments (9)
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Justice Mullins: “Difficult to” ignore “false confessions.”
The state’s highest court is deciding whether New Haven cops coerced a confession out of a man serving a lifetime murder sentence — and in the process deciding how far detectives can go in an interrogation room.
by | Jun 2, 2020 5:59 pm | Comments (31)
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Protesters proceed from Route 34 to occupy I-95.
Gary Winfield and Justin Farmer on “Dateline.”
As cities rise in protest against police brutality, politicians and top cops will have a second chance to embrace solutions, according to Gary Winfield.
Continue reading ‘Winfield: We’ll Put Pols, Top Cops “To Test”’
by | May 29, 2020 2:05 pm | Comments (1)
Oz Griebel on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.”
There’s the immediate-term Covid-19 health risk. And there’s the long-term democracy risk.
by | May 28, 2020 1:54 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
Continue reading ‘Pandemic Property Tax Relief A Click Away’
by | May 27, 2020 3:02 pm | Comments (4)
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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.
by | May 22, 2020 10:10 am | Comments (0)
Connecticut drivers can wait another 90 days before renewing their expiring licenses or registrations.
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by | May 21, 2020 3:35 pm | Comments (3)
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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.
Continue reading ‘RegalCare Cited For Deficient Covid Control’
by | May 20, 2020 6:46 pm | Comments (5)
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.