“Some are flying through there at 50 miles an hour,” said a citizen clocking red-light runners at a new downtown intersection.
“If he comes to my store I cannot pick up the phone, because he threatens me that ‘If you call the cops, I’m going to kill you,’” a Whalley Avenue liquor-store owner told state commissioners in a bid to keep his liquor license.
“I love you,” the son of a convicted killer told his father at the end of a court hearing on his father’s quest for freedom.
“Corruption or incompetence?” a reader asked about the nearly 50 percent city undervaluing of an apartment complex (the Taft) that sold for $52.5 million.
“Can’t we all get along?” sang the man who shot a former U.S. president.
“This volcano of out-of-control little stuff has bubbled to the surface. They want teachers to handle it. We’re not equipped to,” remarked a teacher arrested for pushing a student who charged at him with a threat to attack him.
“We’re not going to get into the details of how many applicants at this point,” the mayor said at a press conference, when asked about the search process for a new police chief.
Those were among the remarks of subjects of recent New Haven news articles. News “pundits” crew offered their take on what that all means during their latest weekly “Thursday Pundits” program on WNHH FM. Click on the video at the top of the story to hear what they had to say.