by | Feb 15, 2018 7:42 pm | Comments (8)
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The face of opposition: suburban children.
Candelaria: Listening in.
Hartford — New Haven State Rep. Juan Candelaria got to see firsthand Thursday the face of opposition to his proposal to legalize recreational use of marijuana: Suburban. And possibly wearing braces.
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by | Feb 15, 2018 1:16 pm | Comments (14)
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Porter reacts to Malloy singling out her pay equity proposal.
During the state legislative session now underway, New Haven’s lawmakers are taking a lead on raising the minimum wage, equalizing pay for women’s equal work, and legalizing marijuana — along with taxing bitcoin transactions.
by | Feb 13, 2018 8:52 pm | Comments (16)
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Hazel Mencos tells lawmakers of crossing the border alone to meet her mom in New Haven.
Hartford — Wilbur Cross High School student Hazel Mencos came to the state Capitol Tuesday and exercised a right that many American citizens never use: She testified in a public hearing in favor of a bill, answered questions from a lawmaker, and had her view entered into the public records.
by | Feb 12, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (7)
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Jonathan Harris at candidate forum in New Haven.
Jonathan Harris used a word you don’t usually hear from the rest of the pack eyeing the governor’s mansion this year: lumber.
Continue reading ‘“Pragmatic Progressive” Sees The Forest In The Trees’
by | Feb 9, 2018 11:31 am | Comments (1)
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CAA’s Amos Smith.
One of New Haven’s largest anti-poverty agencies abruptly shut its doors Friday. It couldn’t make payroll after its bank drained $200,000 from its account, in part to pay another social-service group to which it owed money.
(Update Friday 4:51 p.m.: The agency’s director said it will reopen on a limited basis starting Monday.)
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by | Feb 9, 2018 9:00 am | Comments (8)
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Clifford Beers chief Alice Forrester at Thursday’s confab.
More than 80 heads of local not-for-profits got state lawmakers in a room to urge them to stop the budget blood-letting that’s stretching their operations at a time of great need.
by | Feb 8, 2018 9:02 am | Comments (4)
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Mayor Harp on the House floor Tuesday for the address.
Hartford—Gov. Dannel P. Malloy used his last “State of the State” address to urge Connecticut to be a fairer state: fairer to women, fairer to working people, and fairer to the most vulnerable in society.
Mayor Toni Harp noticed that Malloy left out one form of fairness: Fairness to cities like New Haven.
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by | Feb 7, 2018 1:11 pm | Comments (1)
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy kicked off the new state legislative session Wednesday with his final “State of the State” address in the House of Representatives. He used it to concentrate not on the numbers, but on “fairness,” calling for among other measures, a pay equity bill for women and a raised minimum wage.
by | Feb 7, 2018 9:25 am | Comments (26)
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Union members turn out for Tuesday night’s downtown event.
State Rep. Toni Walker, co-sponsor of casino bill, addresses rally.
New Haven’s labor unions flexed their political muscle to back MGM Resorts’s proposed casino in Bridgeport, as a showdown begins over tribal nations’ competing plans.
by | Feb 6, 2018 2:24 pm | Comments (0)
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Brenda Novak and Herb Kolody at WNHH FM.
Brenda Novak and Herb Kolodny were lucky: They got insurance coverage for their new limbs. Now they’re working on ensuring that other people who lose arms and legs have the same opportunity to restart their lives in full rather than be confined to wheelchairs.
by | Feb 5, 2018 7:07 pm | Comments (17)
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A ghost gun available on the Internet; below, Harp, lawmakers at Church on the Rock.
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Lawmakers Monday gathered in a Hamilton Street church in a quest to stop people from turning their guns into automatic weapons and stop people who shouldn’t have access to guns from building them at home.
by | Feb 1, 2018 8:46 am | Comments (10)
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Lamont at WNHH FM (2018), Dem convention (2010).
Ned Lamont has millions of dollars ready to spend to try to stop the Koch Brothers from turning Connecticut red.
But he didn’t come to New Haven to talk about that.
by | Jan 31, 2018 4:05 pm | Comments (3)
Arte Inc. BIMEC Believe in Me Corp. Bregamos Theater. Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Program. Kidz Kook Association, Inc.
New Haven Reads Community Book Bank. New Haven Symphony Orchestra. PAL New Haven. r’ Kids, Inc.. Solar Youth. Sullivan Basketball Academy. VETTS, Inc
by | Jan 29, 2018 5:40 pm | Comments (16)
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State panel co-chair Patricelli hunts for ideas in New Haven.
Monday felt like Groundhog Day for Matthew Nemerson, as he watched a parade of government and business leaders assembled in New Haven pitch how to move Connecticut’s economy forward.
So he decided to change the script.
by | Jan 23, 2018 3:17 pm | Comments (15)
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Inside 150 Sargent, proposed new primary care site.
Tens of thousands of New Haveners next year will receive basic health care in a new spot with an experimental approach — if state and federal regulators say OK.
by | Jan 19, 2018 2:04 pm | Comments (7)
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Luke Bronin at WNHH FM.
Long before he worked for President Obama, before he investigated corruption in Afghanistan, before he become the city of Hartford’s “hizzoner,” Luke Bronin spent years in New Haven’s Whalley Avenue jail.
Continue reading ‘Whalley Jail Inspired Gubernatorial Hopeful’
by | Jan 16, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (4)
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Bysiewicz, Elliott.
Susan Bysiewicz hasn’t yet announced that she’s running for governor, but she has already picked up her first endorsement.
Continue reading ‘Bysiewicz Gets 1st Endorsement For Governor’
by | Jan 15, 2018 8:50 am | Comments (24)
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Checking the message: Kindall, D’Agostino at WNHH FM.
Option #1: In tackling workers’ rights or underfunded schools, the “people’s lawyer” needs to offer a disinterested opinion recognizing different sides.
Option #2: In tackling workers’ rights or underfunded schools, the “people’s lawyer” needs to find a way to take a stand for social justice.
by | Jan 9, 2018 8:52 am | Comments (32)
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Mayor Harp.
Primary the disloyal Dems. And let the governor make the tough decisions.
by | Jan 4, 2018 4:22 pm | Comments (3)
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GOP CHair Romano with State Rep. Lemar.
J. R. Romano ‘s party has an excitement gap. Roland Lemar’s party has a vision gap.
The two veteran campaigners don’t say that about each other’s party. They say that about their own party.
by | Jan 2, 2018 4:13 pm | Comments (10)
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If you want to pigeonhole Dita Bhargava with a label or a comparison, she’ll take “Gina Raimondo.”
by | Jan 2, 2018 8:44 am | Comments (10)
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State Treasurer Denise Nappier.
Another top elected office is opening up in state government, as State Treasurer Denise Nappier has reportedly decided not to seek a sixth four-year term.
by | Jan 2, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (3)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield.
New Haven State Sen. Gary Winfield has his eye on higher office, but has decided not to pursue it in 2018.
by | Dec 15, 2017 1:24 pm | Comments (3)
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Looney and Fasano at the Capitol.
Martin Looney had just received a new kidney. But Len Fasano couldn’t give him time to recuperate. The fate of Connecticut’s upcoming legislative session was at stake.
by | Dec 13, 2017 8:45 am | Comments (4)
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Clockwise: Rivera-Forastieri, Alok Bhatt, Jesus Morales-Sanchez and Mark Reed at the hearing.
Hartford — Advocates came here from New Haven to urge a commission to help immigrants avoid the clutches of federal agents by shaving one day off a state sentencing rule that can turn low-level offenders into “aggravated” felons.