• NHPS promises better supervision of snow-removal contractors after numerous “failed” plow jobs. • Contractor agrees with critique, blames district for late calls, and asks to be able to work with custodians union again. Maya McFadden reports.
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Dereen Shirnekhi
| Feb 12, 2025 3:01 pm
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Terri Ricks (in red), with Mark Griffin (right), thanks Mandy's Ari Hoffman and Sara Bigman and pushes for them to encourage other management companies to enact similar policies.
After winning a tenant-discrimination case that changed how Mandy Management approaches renters with criminal histories, Mark Griffin is ready to take his fair-housing fight to the state legislature — as he also awaits a full pardon for his decades-old misdemeanor conviction.
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Zachary Groz and Thomas Breen
| Feb 12, 2025 1:11 pm
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Applicant Villanueva: Spot is a "gold mine"
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Landlord Marty Halprin: Time to look for another potential tenant.
A new smoke shop won’t be able to open up next to a methadone clinic and a strip club — after city zoners stamped out the latest bid to convert a vacant storefront into a tobacco sales “gold mine.”
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Laura Glesby
| Feb 12, 2025 10:53 am
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Typhanie Jackson: "There are some places where we have had some gaps."
High burnout rates, low pay, and insufficient state funding have led to an untenable shortage of special education staff in New Haven public schools.
School employees and parents conveyed that message to Education Committee alders — calling attention to lapsed services for some of the city’s highest-needs students.