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by Paul Bass | September 27, 2006 6:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

At the risk of encouraging conspiracy theorists: Did it strike anyone else as more than coincidental that numbers like these are suddenly appearing on a gas station sign on Whalley Avenue (pictured above) weeks before mid-term elections?… Click here to read the draft recommendations of the Board of Aldermen’s Deadly Force Task Force, aimed at preventing shootings involving cops. The committee meets again at City Hall Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. to vote on these ideas… U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro announced that she helped win a $300,000 federal grant for Empower New Haven’s Compassion Capital Fund Communities Empowering Youth Program… Pro-gay rights Love Makes a Family endorsed John DeStefano’s gubernatorial campaign Wednesday…. Demolition is set to begin at 120 Goffe St. to make way for St. Luke’s Church’s efforts to bring stable new elderly housing to Dixwell. Click here for a previous article on the church’s project…