(Opinion) Teachers need more zeroes at the end of their paychecks. Budding corporate leaders need more zeroes at the end of their pizza-flavored civic “donations.” Renters need fewer zeroes at the end of their monthly fees.
Events of the past two weeks called attention to those ongoing needs, as more teachers fled New Haven’s public schools (62 so far this academic year!), another luxury-apartment plan raised complex affordable-housing and demolition/displacement questions in the Hill … and a growing top local employer that developed cancer-fighting drugs tried its hand at baking philanthropy headlines at BAR.
Those are among the topics visited in the latest edition of the New Haven Independent’s weekly opinionated v‑log news summary, direct from our assignment desk my compost heap. Click on the above video to watch it.
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