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Apr 24, 2019 11:46 am
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Connecticut’s prison inmates currently pay the second highest rates in the country to make phone calls in the country. If Hamden State Rep. Josh Elliott gets his way, they could soon pay nothing to call their loved ones — but only if his bill doesn’t lose momentum and get buried in a busy session of the General Assembly.
State police Tuesday afternoon released video from the camera worn by a Hamden police officer as he fired bullets at two unarmed people in a car in New Haven’s Newhaville neighborhood.
It showed the officer firing directly into the passenger window of the car. Meanwhile, the state’s police commissioner revealed that Hamden failed to notify New Haven police that an officer was crossing into town to confront a suspect and that a Yale police officer who also fired his gun did not turn on his body camera.
Gov. Ned Lamont Monday with Chamber President Garrett Sheehan.
Gov. Ned Lamont presented New Haven’s business community with a choice for how the state will pay for necessary transit improvements: through tolls or through debt.
Connecticut’s governor made that pitch Monday morning in a keynote address to the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce about his nascent administration’s economic development priorities.
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Sarah Miller and Fatima Rojas |
Apr 8, 2019 1:23 pm
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Fatima Rojas (center) and Sarah Miller (right) speak out at Board of Ed meeting.
(Opinion) — On Friday, Gov. Ned Lamont announced a $100 million donation to the state of Connecticut from the Dalio Philanthropies “to strengthen public education and promote greater economic opportunity.” The five year initiative is to be matched two-to-one by the state and unspecified private donors, with state funds this year coming from surplus dollars.
CT 17th District Senator George Logan and his eggs and toast.
Orange juice and plate of eggs in hand, State Sen. George Logan listened as his constituents heaped an issue onto his plate — changing the way voters in Connecticut elects politicians like him.
Tweed Interim Executive Director Matthew Hoey delivers the news.
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A second airline has all but committed to fly out of Tweed if the airport extends its current runway — which a bill before the state legislature would allow the airport to do.
State economic development Commissioner David Lehman and DISTRICT founder and CEO David Salinas.
Mayor Toni Harp, Lehman, and Salinas.
Connecticut’s newly confirmed economic development chief toured New Haven’s bustling “DISTRICT” tech campus Friday — and proclaimed he saw the future of the state’s economy.
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Mar 28, 2019 7:43 am
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When many towns and cities across the state are reluctantly raising the property tax to make up for shortfalls from the state funding or unfunded or under-funded mandates are cutting into budgets, North Haven has remained fiscally solvent with a Triple‑A rating.
More than that, in a budget announced this week, First Selectman Michael Freda was able to propose a budget that included no increases in tax despite increased debt from bonding on projects coming due.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 26, 2019 6:03 pm
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Carl Robert Talbot (right).
Robby Talbot was a poet. A teddy bear. An underground iconoclast with a penchant for psychedelics. Someone who struggled with mental health and substance abuse. Whose family tried and tried to help him navigate a circular network of court appearances and social service programs.
Talbot’s life ended abruptly in the shower of the Whalley Avenue jail. The people who knew and loved him have a hunch that the system, that society, let him down.
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Mar 18, 2019 4:40 pm
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Mary Kaye Holmes at Monday’s Van Jones-led forum.
Mary Kaye Holmes finally got to Quinnipiac University Monday, but not as a law school student as she had once hoped.
She came as a guest speaker to tell how she went from incarceration to New York Law School — and how Connecticut can help other “second chancers” as it weighs the next steps in criminal justice reform.
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Christopher Peak |
Mar 15, 2019 7:36 am
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New Haven/Hamden State Rep. Robyn Porter, pictured at the Capitol, is tackling hiring gaps for teachers and adminsitrators of color.
While proposals that would nudge small school districts toward regionalization might have attracted the most attention at the Legislative Office Building this year, a slew of lesser-known education bills could change the way kids learn, from preschool all the way through college.
The Quinnipiac River: Soon to be a state wildlife refuge?
Local waterfowl can breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now, that a bill that would designate both the Quinnipiac River and the Mill River as wildlife refuges has won a key sign-off from a state legislative committee.
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Christopher Peak |
Mar 13, 2019 1:28 pm
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More money to educate students with limited English or learning disabilities. A curriculum that teaches kids about the U.S.‘s long history of racial discrimination. More time for children to play and for teens to sleep in.
New Haven has its eye on state bills that seek to create those outcomes.
New Haven Uber driver Edgar N. en route to state Capitol.
Edgar N. recently drove six college students from Toad’s Place to Fairfield. He earned $82 for the late-night, 26-mile ride. Uber pocketed another $49 from the same trip.
Edgar decided to wheel up to Hartford to demand that the actual laborers of the ride-share economy get a fairer share of earnings from such rides.
A crowd gathered Thursday afternoon outside of the Hamden Police Department in the icy chill to offer that chant and seek to take the “ICE” out of police.
Josh Elliott Thursday urged state legislators to support a $15 hourly minimum wage.
But he didn’t do so in his role as Hamden state representative. He did so as a small business owner who believes that a higher minimum wage will cost him in the short term, but will boost the economy, and his store, in the long run.
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Mar 6, 2019 1:22 pm
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Rollin Cook (center) with Jeff Grant and Babz Rawls-Ivy.
When Rollin Cook started his career as a correctional officer in Utah 30 years ago, the criminal justice system prioritized handling inmates with force.
As the new head of Connecticut’s prison system, Cook plans to build off of his predecessor’s reform legacy by championing communication and rehabilitation rather than physical punishment for those behind bars, as well as anti-discrimination for the recently released.
A new online citizens’ petition drive aims to stop the confirmation of a “Wall Street hustler” Gov. Ned Lamont picked to serve as state economic development commissioner.
On her lunch hour, Sotonye Otunba-Payne left her job and walked with her colleagues to New Haven Superior Court in a shirt reading “Integrity Matters.”
Transportation Chair Roland Lemar at Wednesday’s hearing.
Hartford — New Haven State Rep. Roland Lemar is taking a second swing at protecting “vulnerable users” — using newfound influence to try to fix flaws that prevented a previous law he authored from punishing reckless drivers who crash into pedestrians or cyclists.
