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2011: The Year Grassroots Challenged Power

by Paul Bass | Dec 29, 2011 8:00 am | Comments (2)

From the police department to the schools to neighborhood voting precincts, New Haveners made new demands on entrenched power this past year, and now face the challenge of translating protest into palpable change in 2012.

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Midnight Parking Plan Squeaks Through

by Melissa Bailey | Aug 10, 2011 7:21 am | Comments (75)

It’s official: Downtown visitors will need to feed meters like this one for an extra five hours, thanks to a vote that went down to the wire at the city’s traffic commission.

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Privatization Baby Split In Half

by Paul Bass | Aug 1, 2011 7:14 am | Comments (17)

The first aftershocks of the labor debacle in Hartford may have been felt in New Haven, where City Hall and negotiators for school custodians have stopped fighting and managed to reach a long-elusive contract agreement that includes a Solomonic solution to an outsourcing dispute.

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TD Securities Snags $44.5M Bond Sale

by Paul Bass | Jul 20, 2011 2:44 pm | Comments (16)

In New Haven, some people heard alarm bells. In the bond market, underwriters heard opportunity knocking—so six of them lined up for the chance to buy bonds from the city.

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In Westville, A 21st Century Campaign

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 11, 2011 6:55 am | Comments (6)

Darryl Brackeen, Jr. screwed a camcorder onto a tripod, set it up in his front yard, and unveiled his latest campaign proposal—handing out numerical grades to city workers and departments.

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Move Over, Avis

by Melissa Bailey | Jul 6, 2011 7:03 am | Comments (19)

City government workers like Shirley Dixon may still be typing into their HP computers if a mayoral candidate wins office, but they may have to start “renting” the machines.

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Malloy Slams City After All

by Paul Bass | Jun 29, 2011 4:54 pm | Comments (15)

After promising to shield New Haven in round one of his last-minute budget cuts, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy now proposes to send New Haven a new $5 million-plus hit—and a move to stop him has begun.

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Broadway Lease Approved

by Thomas MacMillan | Jun 7, 2011 6:36 am | Comments (10)

A year ago, aldermen passed a budget with a soft center by the name of Innovation Based Budgeting (IBB), a nebulous multimillion-dollar revenue and savings plan that never lived up to its promise. On Monday evening, aldermen agreed to sell a downtown parking lot to fill the hole left by IBB.

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Minus Title, Broadway Lot “Lease” Speeds Ahead

by Thomas MacMillan | Jun 1, 2011 6:51 am | Comments (7)

A $3 million plan to lease a downtown parking lot is a de facto sale of the property to Yale. So why not just sell it? One reason: The city isn’t sure it owns it.

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$475M Budget Passed

by Thomas MacMillan | May 23, 2011 5:43 pm | Comments (12)

With a handful of dissents, the Board of Aldermen voted Monday night to approve a $475 million budget for the coming fiscal year.

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