New Haven Independent

Posted by: robn | January 8, 2009 3:23 PM

...ahem...

...how about putting the mayor in stocks on the Green and meting out 375 lashes?

Posted by: Moti Sandman Alderman Ward28 | January 8, 2009 3:30 PM

Hi All

I think the founders of New Haven Colony had it right. The only way we can sustain the City and the services (regional homeless shelter, 2 regional hospitals, 2 regional colleges not counting Yale, and the list goes on) that it provides to the region is by regionalizing all of the surrounding towns.

We should try to find a way to come full circle and create a regional tax base or actually incorporate the surrounding towns into New Haven.

Just my 2 cents,

Moti Sandman

Posted by: cedarhillresident | January 8, 2009 3:45 PM

robn

My god!!!!! Coffee came out of my nose!!! OMG if we sold tickets we could pay of the city dept!! We can auction of take whips to each bidder and raise a fortune!! I am in!

Posted by: Carlos Verde | January 8, 2009 4:31 PM

Okay. why can't we ever seem to get things right. As usual some so called leaders in New Haven either don't like doing their homework or just can't read.
Ernest H. Baldwin, Ph. D has published all the information on New Haven's history. Try reading it sometime before you decide to make public comments.
So here are just a few "accurate" facts:
New Haven was Settled on April, 1638; named, Aug., 1640; Inc., 1784; town and city consolidated, Nov., 1895.
for those who really want to know, The Colony of New Haven was supose to become a state back in the 1700's. However, someone didn't do the paperwork and when the king of Great Britian was asked to give New Haven it's statehood they found that no charter was ever given to Mr. Eaton and Mr. Davenport before they left Great Britian. It seems that New Haven city government hasn't changed much in some 300 years. At that time New Haven did include all of the surrounding towns and then some.
It was then that the newly created State of Connecticut, offered to take New Haven in as one of it's towns.

There is more for those who like to read.

Posted by: Lance | January 8, 2009 5:40 PM

"Moti Sandman-

We should try to find a way to come full circle and create a regional tax base or actually incorporate the surrounding towns into New Haven."
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Explain to me why the suburbanites should have to pay for the freeloaders in New Haven.

Posted by: cedarhillresident | January 8, 2009 8:51 PM

Lance
for starters the sububanites dump all their homeless and unwanted on the green in New Haven! I have seen Gulford cops do it with my own eyes. All your problems are left at our door so you do not have to deal with the plights! Batter house wives come to new haven for help, your drug addicted kids by their drugs here and then end up here in one form or another. Please don't be that person lance. I know you know better!

Posted by: koshbomber | January 9, 2009 11:12 PM

If New Haven gos down the tubes, the county will go down the tubes

Posted by: Josh Smith | January 11, 2009 3:14 PM

Suburbs shouldn't have to pay for the freeloaders in New Haven? What about all the homeless and poor from the suburbs who come to New Haven to use our soup kitchens, shelters, and other city services?? Surely you don't believe all the disadvantaged people in New Haven leeching off our handouts are from the city proper...

Posted by: cedarhillresident | January 11, 2009 8:27 PM

I do want to add one more or two more reasons we do end up with the neediest of the state. Police ambulances ect bring people to yale, st rays or even the detox centers, once let go from these places with a cab voucher if that, where do they really have to go?? If they are lucky their family comes to get them but many at this point have used that forgiveness up. They are on the streets in our city. Where at the least they can get a meal. But these facity's have some responsibility to get these people back to their home towns.

The 25 a week prisoners that are dropped off at New Haven, they to have know where to go so they choose the city because they know they can find shelter and food. Rell so ignorantly says this is their home town, I will arue with that this is where they asked to be left, this is where they set up a mailing address at the salvation army or one of the shelters, and this does not make it the home of origin! Just a place to get help. Because sounding's town do NOT offer this kind of help!

How ever, I find this to be one of the beauty's of the city, that we are such a giving people, a caring breed.

But one question that always seems to bother me....why do these (169 citys in CT) not have the help?? WHY? Is the fact that human frailty's are beneath them?? Really?? This is a true question? My community has it's problem houses but among our local dealers is another kind, the people from East Haven and North haven (and other suburbanites as you say) that come into my community and do drug trades with other out of towner's! The suburbanites that come into MY COMMUNITY that try to pick up prostitutes . Because you go home to the image of a perfect little world, that makes you free from what is really happening. Because you do all your dirty business in our family's community's, Because your city ships its problems to our city make you any better? Please. Ok you don't want regional. FINE but guess what we will be getting city's of origin of all our homeless, drug addicted, all the criminals and mentally ill and we will be dropping them off at the town halls of suburbia!