Alders Don't Adopt Ceasefire Resolution
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| May 6, 2024 8:04 pm |The Board of Alders voted not to adopt a proposed resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday evening, prompting backlash from over a hundred protesters.
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| May 6, 2024 8:04 pm |The Board of Alders voted not to adopt a proposed resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza on Monday evening, prompting backlash from over a hundred protesters.
Hundreds of people turned out to offer polarized and passionate testimony before the Board of Alders during an online hearing about a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza — a proposal that local legislators plan to take up for deliberations next week.
Continue reading ‘Ceasefire Hearing Draws Anguished Testimony’
A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.
To 69-year-old Linda Randi, who’s worked as a paraeducator in New Haven Public Schools for 38 years, more funding for the Board of Education would mean “I wouldn’t have to work a second job.”
Specifically, she said, she’d no longer have to work a nightly six-hour shift waiting tables on top of her full-time classroom hours.
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| Apr 17, 2024 2:58 pm |A committee of alders unanimously voted Tuesday night to advance a plan to install 19 red light and speed cameras across New Haven.
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| Apr 16, 2024 2:07 pm |Surrounded by the somber portraits of white politicians and businessmen honored in the aldermanic chamber, Hill Alder Carmen Rodriguez sketched a future of New Haven rooted in Black and Latino history.
Continue reading ‘Black & Latino History Powers Annual Address’
As alders consider whether to legalize red light and speeding cameras in New Haven, Mayor Justin Elicker has proposed adding four new city employees to install and manage 20 such cameras in the next fiscal year.
Because of one section of New Haven’s zoning code, this apartment building can’t be built.
Because of another section of New Haven’s zoning code, this apartment building might be built.
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| Apr 15, 2024 1:33 pm |The redeveloper of the former Doyle’s Cleaners on Alden Avenue has ditched plans to build a new specialty food store and will now construct six, instead of four, apartments there instead.
Should New Haven wait until 2025 to begin closing some of its 41 schools? Or should it speed up that consolidation process and start this year?
A former mayoral candidate has been tapped to guide future reforms to enhance housing code and blight enforcement at the Livable City Initiative (LCI), as the Board of Alders reviews a mayoral proposal to remove affordable housing development from that city agency’s work.
Continue reading ‘LCI Could Grow & Split; Brennan To Consult’
Michael Morand has received a five-year appointment to do — officially — what he has done unofficially for years: reveal New Haven’s hidden past to the people of the present.
A shortage of electric car chargers has left 27 city-owned Chevy Bolts sitting unused in a parking lot — revealing how the process of electrifying public vehicles is more complicated than just buying a fleet of cleaner-energy cars.
Should a planned new medical office building on a West River superblock be allowed to have 0 off-street parking spaces — when there’s a 700-space parking garage right next door?
(Updated) As New Haven completes the process of approving a new fiscal year budget, it will also start looking for a new budget director to craft next year’s plan.
With climate change in mind, an aldermanic committee advanced a zoning proposal that would allow as-of-right restaurants, supermarkets, and offices — but not housing — along the Union Station railroad tracks.
Continue reading ‘Extra Step Added For Transit-Oriented Housing’
The number of paramedics employed by the city’s fire department has plummeted from around 40 a few years ago to just 15 today — hiking mandatory overtime and prompting the city to recruit workers from out of town and state.
If you want to make $18 an hour cutting grass in the city’s parks this summer, then you better not smoke grass before applying for the job.
Because New Haven requires prospective seasonal parks workers to pass a drug test, including for marijuana, even though recreational cannabis is now legal statewide.
Speed bumps are on the way to Newhallville. What, neighbors asked, about the schools?
Continue reading ‘Newhallville Presses Zinn On Speed Bumps, School Traffic Safety’
If you’ve paid $20 for a birth, death, or marriage certificate that the city was unable to procure, you may soon be eligible for a refund.
It turns out that a single city official imposed such a fee without the required approvals and against a state imperative — another revelation from an investigation into the city’s former registrar of vital statistics and her actions reporting 93 couples to a federal immigration office.
Children urinating into buckets. Mice and mushrooms emerging from floorboards. Showering at Planet Fitness!
The first public hearing on the mayor’s proposed new city budget elicited such horror stories — as members of the public came out en masse to push not just for more affordable housing, but for better government oversight of living standards across existing housing stock.
A text came in from an unsaved number: A young woman from New Haven and an older man living out of state needed a justice of the peace to perform their wedding.
Was Matt Fantastic available?
Seeking an exception to state open-records laws, the Elicker administration Monday refused a request to view documents at the heart of a scandal over how City Hall handles marriage documents.
Continue reading ‘City Won't Release Vital-Stats Marriage Docs’
“Happy Hunting!” wrote New Haven’s vital statistics chief Patricia Clark to a federal investigator as she reported yet another immigrant getting married in City Hall.
The city released a 41-page investigatory report on Friday finding that Clark committed misconduct by reporting 93 marriage-seeking couples to federal immigration authorities and denying services to constituents arbitrarily.
Meanwhile, officials announced that Clark evaded disciplinary action by retiring in late February, the day she faced a hearing.
Continue reading ‘Probe Reveals Marriage-License Misconduct’
A handful of high-up local officials can apply to live outside of New Haven, as long as they can demonstrate a “critical need” or “extraordinary hardship” associated with living within city bounds after serving in their roles for at least a year.
Continue reading ‘Alders Pass Law That Allows CAO To Live Out Of Town’