Downtown/East Rock Alder Eli Sabin (right) talking about buses by the hub on the Green.
So long, fares?
What if the current three-month CT Transit bus-fare holiday went on … forever?
Downtown/East Rock Alder Eli Sabin has raised that question, and thrown his support behind that outcome, with a newly submitted resolution that calls on the state to make riding the bus free for Connecticut residents, permanently.
They agreed that Connecticut’s investments need bigger returns — and they each argued they were the best person to make that happen. The three candidates suddenly vying for the Democrats’ state treasurer nomination this year showed New Haven Democrats last night that what differentiates them is not politics — but what each of their individual qualifications say about their capacity to best serve in the position.
Karen DuBois-Walton, now officially a candidate for state treasurer.
Karen DuBois-Walton has officially thrown her hat into the ring for state treasurer — and will not be leaving her post at the city’s housing authority during the campaign.
She made that announcement in an email sent out to city housing authority employees one day after a fellow active New Haven Democrat, Erick Russell, also formally jumped into that same statewide race.
After years making laws in Hartford and bringing airline service to New Haven, Sean Scanlon is ready to start signing state government paychecks and negotiating workers’ health plans.
Pitching Democrats Saturday (clockwise from top left): Stephanie Thomas, Darryl Brackeen Jr., Martiza Bond, Hilda Santiago, Matt Lesser, Josh Elliott.
As soon as New Haven Health Director Maritza Bond took the stage to pitch her candidacy for secretary of the state, she asked the crowd to applaud Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr., another candidate, for his work throughout the pandemic.
When he got up to speak after her, he returned the gratitude with another round of applause, this time for her work.
That reflected the tone Saturday as six Democrats seeking the party’s nomination for the state’s top elections position gathered in person at a forum in New Haven to make their case, and try to set themselves apart from the pack.
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Jennifer Lopez sports a mask of her own design.
For more than 20 years, while she worked day jobs in nursing and security, Jennifer Lopez held onto her love of fashion.
“Something always told me to follow it,” she said.
Lopez, a New Haven-based single parent with four kids, is now starting an accessories line and fashion education business. She said she was rejected from the first few loans for which she applied. Then, last October, she obtained a microloan from Grameen America. With the $2,000, she purchased supplies and registered her business under the name Jenna Line Customs LLC.
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Seven projects in New Haven and Hamden — including a “resilience academy” proposed to replace a planned Newhallville methadone clinic — will soon receive roughly $12.5 million in state-borrowed aid, thanks to a series of bonding approvals in Hartford on Thursday.
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City legislative affairs chief Kevin Alvarez at commission meeting.
New Haven-backed state bills that would allow public housing authorities to develop properties in neighboring towns and that would require an assessment of the statewide need for affordable housing have advanced out of committee.
A third City Hall-endorsed housing reform bill — designed to promote transit-oriented development across Connecticut — is still in committee, with a potential public hearing coming soon.
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... alongside two recent electric additions to the state's bus fleet.
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U.S. Sen. Murphy (right) with bus drivers Jermaine and Sylvia...
Twenty-two new electric buses should hit the streets of New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Stamford over the next year and a half, thanks in part to a newly awarded $11.4 million federal grant to help the state transportation department wean itself off of fossil fuels.
Gov. Ned Lamont Monday at a general Q&A with reporters following an international-trade presser, held at New Haven's DISTRICT NHV offices of Connecticut Innovations.
Ned Lamont would rather cut property taxes than sales taxes. And he’d rather let New Haven’s school district makes its own decision about mask-wearing.
Sarah Ganong wants baristas and burger-flippers to know what hours they’ll work each week without having to rush in on an hour’s notice, or lock up at night only to open back up at 6 a.m.
She also wants you to consider running for elected office if you’d like to help make that and other improvements in working people’s lives become possible.
Two incarcerated individuals died and one correctional officer was revived with Narcan Thursday after suspected fentanyl overdoses at the Whalley Avenue jail.
Newly tapped state judge nominees: Scott Jones, Tara Knight, and Cherie Phoenix-Sharpe.
New Haven’s top public defender, a former City Hall attorney, a Yale Law School instructor, and two Hamden-based personal injury lawyers are en route to becoming state judges, thanks to a sweep of appointments by Gov. Ned Lamont.
DuBois-Walton with Harris Tucker School students at a Newhallville ward committee meeting.
“Equity” and “excellence” are about to get an update.
Those two words summarized the mission of a five-year plan to guide Connecticut’s schools. The State Board of Education drafted and began undertaking the plan five years ago.
