http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/ It's Your Town. Read All About It. en marcia.chambers@yale.edu Copyright 2012 2012-02-10T12:42:26+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/state_takes_business_show_on_the_road/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/state_takes_business_show_on_the_road/#When:16:11:03Z The state’s new business outreach program took its show on the road yesterday, setting up shop in Branford’s Community House on Church Street. Scores of people lined up to speak one-on-one with state specialists versed in the way to get funds, obtain permits, explore tax credits. The aim: to create jobs, businesses and a new economic spirit in the state.This was a way of thinking that no one in the room had ever encountered before. “This is a part of our reinventing Connecticut tour,” Deputy Economic and Community Commissioner Ron Angelo said in an interview after the program ended. “We had over a dozen stops on that tour. Now that tour is not going to end. Now we are going to be out doing this sort of thing on a regular basis. It is about being pro-active not reactive anymore.  It is about government acting at the speed of business and being responsive to business.” State 2012-01-20T16:11:03+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/malloy_and_wyman_sweep_branford/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/malloy_and_wyman_sweep_branford/#When:01:59:25Z UPDATE—Dan Malloy and Nancy Wyman captured the Democratic gubernatorial race in Branford, sweeping all seven election districts.  Despite a volatile democratic primary that pitted Malloy, a former mayor, against Ned Lamont, the Greenwich millionaire, voter turnout in Branford was low throughout the day and evening. The Republican primary was also a tight race.  Lt. Governor Michael Fedele came close but Tom Foley took the nomination. In Branford, Foley won over Fedele by a mere 24 votes, 342-318. Oz Griebel took 112 votes. Politics, State 2010-08-11T01:59:25+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/widlitz_paint_law_awaits_senate_vote/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/widlitz_paint_law_awaits_senate_vote/#When:14:00:17Z UPDATE—Two weeks ago, a bill that would help towns get rid of old paint cans was unanimously approved by the State House of Representatives. But the Senate sat on the bill and many others until the last day of the session. It did put the paint bill on its consent list, which meant it would be automatically approved. Alas, time ran out and the bill found itself on the other side of midnight and didn’t get through. Environment, State 2010-05-05T14:00:17+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/House_Committee_OKs_Cell_Tower_Legislation/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/House_Committee_OKs_Cell_Tower_Legislation/#When:12:29:57Z A bill introduced by State Rep. Lonnie Reed (D-Branford) that would place restrictions on cell tower siting has been unanimously approved by the Energy and Technology Committee and has gained extra teeth thanks to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. It now goes to the House of Representatives and the Senate.Branford: State 2010-03-31T12:29:57+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/ed_meyer_wins_third_term_lonnie_reed_new_state_rep/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/ed_meyer_wins_third_term_lonnie_reed_new_state_rep/#When:03:59:00Z UPDATE—November 5 Democrat Ed Meyer swept the six towns of the 12th Senate District tonight, defeating his Republican counterpart Ryan Suerth in a decisive victory despite a feisty campaign Suerth ran with the help of the state’s new public financing law. Lonnie Reed, who ran unopposed, became Branford’s Assemblywoman. State 2008-11-05T03:59:00+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/meyer_and_suerth_hunt_for_independents/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/meyer_and_suerth_hunt_for_independents/#When:15:35:00Z Ed Meyer had a hard sell in the trailer park when Joe, a retired construction manager, answered the door. Joe seemed uncomfortable with the one Democrat he’d heard of who is running for office this fall, Barack Obama. He hadn’t heard of Meyer before. But Meyer did have one potential advantage at his side, a campaign supporter everyone in the 300-home Killingworth park seemed to know. State 2008-10-31T15:35:00+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/what_are_you_willing_to_see/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/what_are_you_willing_to_see/#When:15:12:00Z The shoreline audience drawn to a conference on property tax, smart growth and regional cooperation, was energized, engaged and seeking answers. So State Rep. Brendan Sharkey (D-Hamden) decided to test them. State 2008-09-28T15:12:00+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/a_fresh_look_at_property_tax_reform/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/a_fresh_look_at_property_tax_reform/#When:20:37:00Z A shoreline conference on statewide property tax policy, land use, open space and the development of commercial malls gets underway Saturday as Branford provides the setting for a new bipartisan legislative effort aimed at shifting the way Hartford raises money. State 2008-09-23T20:37:00+00:00 http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/meyer_seeks_dep_overhual/ http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/branford/entry/meyer_seeks_dep_overhual/#When:15:08:00Z State Sen. Ed Meyer promised to work to reform the “dys- functional” State Depart- ment of Environmental Protection and accelerate its enforcement powers. State 2008-02-15T15:08:00+00:00