by | Oct 18, 2019 4:47 pm | Comments (3)
Employees in the Hamden Town’s Clerk’s Office were able to prepare absentee ballots on their newly reopened computers Friday afternoon after a computer virus shut them down for a week.
Thanks goodness, a visiting Secretary of the State Denise Merrill told them, this didn’t happen on Election Day.
Continue reading ‘Merrill: State To Help Towns Beef Up Cyber Protections’
by | Oct 18, 2019 12:33 pm | Comments (31)
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Mayor Toni Harp: “We’re working on it.”
As she continues running for mayor in 2019, Toni Harp has still not revealed the names of donors who gave over $92,000 to her 2017 quest — raising the question about whether the state can enforce its campaign finance laws.
by | Oct 15, 2019 1:44 pm | Comments (11)
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Late, overcrowded as usual: Rush hour on bus formerly known as the B, now the 243.
New Haven buses were on time for only 54 percent of their trips last year, according to newly released data that underscore just how inefficient and inconsistent the city’s public transit system remains.
by | Oct 10, 2019 2:18 pm | Comments (0)
State Senate Deputy President Pro Tempore and Sprague First Selectman Cathy Osten has a unique viewpoint, working simultaneously in both state and municipal politics. Whether zooming in to issues like local farms, or zooming out to how federal spending affects special education, she has an eye on the issues.
by | Oct 7, 2019 12:31 pm | Comments (0)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter egged everyone onto the dance floor — with an eye toward bringing the party, and leading it, in Hartford.
by | Sep 23, 2019 9:07 pm | Comments (10)
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Board member Tamiko Jackson-McArthur (center): A huge win.
New Haven will be able to add 700 more spots for city residents next year at its magnet schools thanks to a deal with the state.
Under the deal, the state agreed to let New Haven fill every spot in its inter-district magnets, and the city will withdraw a request to charge tuition to suburban towns.
by | Sep 5, 2019 7:56 am | Comments (8)
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Walker & Harp at Wednesday night’s meeting.
State Rep. Toni Walker, who worked closely with Toni Harp in the state legislature, has endorsed Harp’s bid for reelection as mayor of New Haven.
Continue reading ‘State Rep. Walker Endorses Harp’s Reelection’
by | Sep 3, 2019 12:21 pm | Comments (11)
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Anstress Farwell pitches mixed-use, not more parking, train station.
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2nd parking garage-less visions for what the area around Union Station could look like,
As the state plods ahead with its plans to build a second parking garage next to Union Station, one local New Urbanism activist is stepping up her fight against the car-centric proposed construction.
by | Aug 1, 2019 3:34 pm | Comments (34)
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State Attorney General William Tong: No recusal necessary.
State Attorney General William Tong has declined to recuse himself from a potential Tweed runway expansion appeal, despite what the state Senate’s top Republican calls Tong’s “political cozy relationship” with Mayor Toni Harp.
by | Jul 18, 2019 2:33 pm | Comments (5)
Sean Scanlon and his colleagues in Connecticut couldn’t do in one year what it took federal politicians a half-century to do.
So they will try to do it in two.
by | Jul 18, 2019 12:03 pm | Comments (11)
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Yoga at New Haven Academy, one of city’s inter-district magnets.
The last time New Haven tried to charge tuition for its inter-district magnet schools, state lawmakers told the city, “Nice try.”
This time, school officials are treading cautiously about trying again to send suburbs a bill, fearing another backlash.
by | Jul 16, 2019 1:38 pm | Comments (18)
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Skimpy arrivals schedule at Tweed. To expand soon?
New Haven’s leading elected officials are staking out opposing positions on the future of Tweed-New Haven Airport in the wake of a federal appeals court ruling.
by | Jul 10, 2019 12:34 pm | Comments (1)
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When Mariam Khan began her role as a student representative on Hamden’s Board of Education, she felt shy, uncertain of her place as a non-voting member.
by | Jul 5, 2019 1:29 pm | Comments (44)
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Career High students walk out in protest over city budget cuts — while suburbs keep money meant to educate them. Below: State funding formula for inter-district magnets outside Hartford.
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Suburban school districts are being paid millions of dollars for students they don’t teach, while sticking New Haven taxpayers with the bill for educating their kids.
by | Jun 18, 2019 3:18 pm | Comments (34)
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Robyn Porter: Bringing home the minimum-wage, family leave bacon.
City Capitol lobbyist Robert Reed: “Work still to be done” after state legislative session.
A $15 minimum wage. Paid family and medical leave. Black and Latino studies in public schools. More school aid.
But no major property tax reform. No marijuana legalization. No Tweed airport runway extension.
Those are among the local legislative wins and losses during the state General Assembly’s latest regular session.
by | Jun 18, 2019 2:08 pm | Comments (4)
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Hundreds wait four hours to register to vote in November.
New Haven’s Democratic registrar of voters says one answer to the city’s election problems may lie on Yale’s Old Campus.
Continue reading ‘City Looks To Yale For Help With Election-Day Crush’
by | Jun 17, 2019 3:07 pm | Comments (23)
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Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz and Gov. Ned Lamont board the Hartford Line at Union Station, check in with passengers (below).
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Local, state, and federal officials descended on New Haven Monday to celebrate the “resounding success” of a year-old commuter rail line that connects New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield.
They also said that a decade-in-the-works bus study is almost complete, and that long-awaited local transit improvements should be coming … sometime soon?
Continue reading ‘Train Progress Hailed; Buses? “Stay Tuned”’
by | Jun 7, 2019 7:43 am | Comments (18)
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Candidate Elicker with seniors at a campaign event this week.
Casinos don’t equal smart government investments.
by | May 29, 2019 3:13 pm | Comments (2)
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Primary care movers (from right): YNHH VP Jennifer Wilcox, Fair Haven Health CEO Suzanne Lagarde, YNHH VP Cynthia Sparer, Hill Health CEO Michael Taylor, Yale School of Medicine Associate Dean Stephen Huot.
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Current YNHH primary care patients within and outside of 10 mile radius (green line) of 150 Sargent Dr.
Yale New Haven Hospital has signed contracts with Uber and two other regional transportation services to provide free transit for carless patients who live more than a 40-minute bus ride away from a proposed new primary care hub on Long Wharf.
According to a hospital survey of current patients, that number could be as high as 9,500 people.
by | May 28, 2019 12:59 pm | Comments (5)
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Robyn Porter at Tuesday’s signing.
Gov. Ned Lamont Tuesday signed into law a hike in the hourly minimum wage to $15 by June 2023.
by | May 21, 2019 12:04 pm | Comments (3)
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Gov. Ned Lamont and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz have found a pitch to make to businesses in low-tax states: come relocate to Connecticut, where we are protecting abortion rights.
by | May 13, 2019 3:55 pm | Comments (45)
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State Rep. Roland Lemar at Union Station press conference Monday.
If Gov. Ned Lamont succeeds in getting tolls reinstituted on state highways, he’ll cut CT Transit bus fare from $1.75 to $1 a ride.
Continue reading ‘$1 Bus Fare Offered In Exchange For Tolls’
by | May 13, 2019 7:23 am | Comments (14)
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Robyn Porter with constituents at Three Brothers.
Twenty hours after State Rep. Robyn Porter led the charge to get a $15 minimum wage through the Connecticut House of Representatives, she sat with constituents in the Three Brothers Diner relishing a years-in-the-making victory. The victory was checked only by a compromise proponents had to make, which exempted from the raise the servers bringing plates of eggs and toast.
Continue reading ‘332,000 May Get Raises. Waiters Will Wait’
by | May 9, 2019 3:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Cheri Quickmire at a protect-Mueller investigation rally last fall on the New Haven Green.
A years-long quest to expand voting fell short again. The next morning, Cheri Quickmire focused on another way to get more people to the polls — an idea that still has a chance of becoming law this year.
Continue reading ‘Voting Push Pivots To Automatic Registration’
by | Apr 29, 2019 4:00 pm | Comments (1)
UHCF President Frances Padilla.
This week some of the people who voted in a Democratic wave plan to ensure it flows to the intended shore.