by | Feb 22, 2019 2:08 pm | Comments (19)
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(Opinion)—This Monday, Mar. 4 at 10:30 a.m., the state legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation will host a hearing on a bill that would allow New Haven’s Tweed Airport to lengthen its runway.
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by | Feb 22, 2019 1:59 pm | Comments (4)
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Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz with newly appointing Housing Commissioner Seila Mosquera-Bruno on a 2018 campaign trip to Fair Haven.
The governor has tapped the head of a New Haven-based affordable housing nonprofit to be the state’s next housing commissioner.
by | Feb 20, 2019 5:29 pm | Comments (5)
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Lamont Wednesday delivering his budget address.
Gov. Ned Lamont Wednesday unveiled a proposed $43 billion two-year budget that seeks to straighten out state finances by refinancing debt, capping new borrowing and future pensions, and socking it to hospitals and Coke and Sunny D drinkers.
Continue reading ‘Low-Wage Workers Win; Hospitals, Sunny D Drinkers Lose’
by | Feb 19, 2019 5:14 pm | Comments (33)
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State Reps. Robyn Porter, Joshua Elliott at the Capitol.
When Gov. Ned Lamont unveils his first proposed budget Wednesday, look for Robyn Porter and Joshua Elliott at times to cheer — while also preparing to fight.
by | Feb 18, 2019 8:31 am | Comments (26)
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Lamont (left); Weicker.
That didn’t take long.
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by | Feb 15, 2019 1:53 pm | Comments (11)
Racheal Cain testifying Thursday in Hartford.
When officers leave New Haven for the suburbs — as dozens have been — the city is losing an average of $31,600 in the cost of training them. (Their new employers generally assume that cost.) Assistant Police Chief Racheal Cain traveled to Hartford Thursday to ask state legislators to help ease that burden by passing a law to require cops who leave the department within five years of obtaining certification to reimburse the city for training costs; the current law sets the limit for reimbursement at two years.
by | Feb 15, 2019 8:47 am | Comments (4)
Pat Dillon and J.R. Romano on WNHH FM’s “Dateline New Haven.
Queens’s loss wouldn’t necessarily be Connecticut’s gain.
by | Feb 13, 2019 3:17 pm | Comments (3)
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Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz: Governor is putting state on a debt diet.
While Hamden regional business people, state legislators, and citizens tucked into a breakfast of bacon, eggs, and pastries on Wednesday, Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz got them ready to diet on debt.
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by | Feb 13, 2019 3:02 pm | Comments (2)
by | Feb 11, 2019 5:47 pm | Comments (47)
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Another parking garage, as pictured above?
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Or, as pictured above, a “twin tower” of apartments and stores surrounded by smaller buildings with a pedestrian neighborhood feel?
Those are two competing visions now on the table for the 1.6‑acre asphalt stretch of Union Avenue between Route 34 and the existing Union Station parking garage.
by | Feb 7, 2019 3:36 pm | Comments (14)
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Park’s northern wall, minus copper flashing.
Over $150,000 of lead-covered copper flashing was stolen from the north wall of Edgerton Park, leaving the century-old stone structure exposed to the destructive influence of freezing and thawing water for the remainder of the winter.
by | Feb 4, 2019 4:05 pm | Comments (3)
A commenter named ElmCityAle posed the following question in a comment posted to a recent story about the decision by Yale to lease the half of the 100 College St. tower left vacant by Alexion Pharmaceuticals’ decision to move much of its local operation to Boston:
It would be helpful if NHI included a thorough accounting of the payback of 100% of all public funds involved in the Alexion incentive deal. This was also requested in several comments of the NHI story that broke the news of Alexion moving their headquarters to Boston.
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by | Feb 1, 2019 1:25 pm | Comments (25)
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Now it’s in writing: State Sen. Prez Martin Looney (center) surrounded by the local delegation.
Raise the minimum wage. Legalize recreational marijuana. Create a paid family medical leave program. And build affordable housing in the suburbs.
Oh, and don’t forget property tax reform. Or school district regionalization. Or criminal justice reform.
by | Jan 28, 2019 3:38 pm | Comments (34)
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State Rep. Robyn Porter with constituents at LWV legislative confab.
Martin Looney pulled up to the Whitney Center in his 2012 Honda Accord — hoping that come next year, his latest ideas for tax reform will become law, and that the tax bill for his vehicle will drop by two thirds.
by | Jan 25, 2019 11:47 am | Comments (1)
The Yale-New Haven hospital system will waive copays, deductibles, and coinsurance fees for furloughed federal government employees who need urgent care.
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by | Jan 24, 2019 2:22 pm | Comments (1)
A fast-rising participant in New Haven political circles has ascended to the number-two spot of the Connecticut Democratic Party.
by | Jan 17, 2019 1:33 pm | Comments (7)
Waterbury Mayor and Connecticut Conference of Municipalities (CCM) President Neil O’Leary and New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney don’t always agree. But on tolls, regionalization, and special education funding, they find themselves supporting the same causes.
That agreement was apparent on the latest episode of WNHH’s “The Municipal Voice.”
Continue reading ‘Looney, Waterbury Mayor Back Tolls, Shared Services’
by | Jan 17, 2019 8:40 am | Comments (36)
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Two moves taken Wednesday by airport authorities are aimed at trying again to expand Tweed-New Haven Airport’s runway to attract more airline flights.
Continue reading ‘Tweed Makes New Moves To Pursue Expansion’
by | Jan 9, 2019 1:34 pm | Comments (2)
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Looney Wednesday addressing State Senate.
Democrats plan to use their new near-super-majorities in the Connecticut legislature to pass a paid family and medical leave law, raise the minimum wage, and expand the state’s “second chance” criminal justice reforms and job-training and higher ed programs.
Continue reading ‘Looney Reelected State Senate Leader; Vows Push For Family Leave’
by | Jan 7, 2019 8:34 am | Comments (19)
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Gioia Connell presents ideas at brainstorming session.
Two 10-story residential towers, skirted by businesses and artist lofts. A village of shipping containers, arrayed by young architects. An outdoor beer garden. Protected bike lanes. Parks and plazas.
Fifteen New Urbanist advocates presented those ideas as better alternatives to a massive new parking garage at Union Station.
by | Jan 7, 2019 8:29 am | Comments (5)
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Retrieving salt at DPW headquarters during a snowstorm last year.
The city will likely spend $5 million less than anticipated on a rebuild of the Department of Public Works (DPW) headquarters, even though the projected cost of the project is now $5 million more than originally budgeted.
That’s thanks to $10 million in state bond money for a demolition and construction project.
by | Jan 4, 2019 8:30 am | Comments (2)
The state will give five local nonprofits over $4 million in aid Thursday as part of the outgoing governor’s grant program to help nonprofits with infrastructure improvement projects.
by | Jan 3, 2019 4:02 pm | Comments (14)
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Rosa Correa and Fernando Muniz (center) with WNHH hosts Jeff Grant and Babz Rawls-Ivy.
Ban the box, not just for job applications, but for housing applications, too.
A criminal justice reform group plans to pitch that idea to the state legislature this coming session as part of recommendations on how to create housing opportunities for Connecticut’s recently incarcerated.
by | Jan 3, 2019 1:09 pm | Comments (0)
Success for Connecticut in 2019 is not a partisan issue.
by | Jan 2, 2019 1:07 pm | Comments (23)
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Friedman delivers “ranked-choice voting call to arms.
Organizing underway.
A quest was hatched in the bowels of the downtown library to Make Democracy Great Again — by changing how we vote.