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What Happened Today On WNHH Radio

Turcio, Ramos.

The numbers tell the story.

Since July 1, the city has collected $50,000 in fines for code violations. It collected $22,000 the entire previous 12 months.

It has collected over $1 million in permitting fees for construction so far in December, more than Jim Turcio can ever remember coming in for that month.

Builders have taken out permits to do $1.1 billion in New Haven in the last 18 months.

To summarize: New Haven has a building boom.

And its top building official, Turcio, is minding the store.

Since taking over as the city’s building official in February, Turcio has gone on a tear seeking to protect public health safety from precarious building conditions and other code violations. From Church Street South to Antillean Manor, from Harbour Landing and the Strouse-Adler building to little-known Fawn Street, Turcio has been climbing on ladders, poking into basements, and generally enforcing the rules in a way the city hasn’t seen in years.

Accompanying him on many of those missions has been Livable City Initiative (LCI) Deputy Director Rafael Ramos, who at Church Street South alone spent weeks discovering public-health threats and issuing orders.

Turcio and Ramos talked about all that — about what they’ve been up to this year and why — on Tuesday’s edition of WNHH radio’s Dateline New Haven” program. Click on or download the above sound file to hear the episode.

Yale law Professor Ian Ayres joined host Michelle Turner on WNHH’s The Show.” The two discussed recent questions — and inherent racial biases — that the Supreme Court and specifically Justice Antonin Scalia have raised during deliberations on affirmative action in the Fisher v. University of Texas case, and whether Abagail Fischer can rightfully #staymad through the ordeal. To listen to the full episode, click on or download the above audio.

With this episode of This Day in New Haven History,” hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle take a holiday break, to return after the New Year. Their send-off is a time-traveling in the holiday spirit to 1913. That was the first year we New Haveners put up a municipal Christmas tree and staged a municipal celebration. We were inspired by one Mrs. Traut of New Britain, whose town celebration our local town mothers and fathers saw fit to emulate.The tree was erected on the Green, close to where it is today. A chorus of 200 school kids were scheduled to sing, the Foot Guard band played the rousing instrumental music, and good old United Illuminating, established in town about a decade now, was good enough to furnish the light.

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