New Haven reconsidered, reset, and made some history this week: The latest opinionated vlog news summary from the Independent assignment desk — er, compost heap. Paul Bass reports.
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Laura Glesby
| May 16, 2025 4:18 pm
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Magda Natal files to run for alder of Ward 16.
A Wilbur Cross teacher of English as a second language is running to represent Fair Haven’s Ward 16 on the Board of Alders, joining what has become a three-way race.
As seen on Thursday: 2-way Chapel, still coming soon.
City traffic commissioners pumped the brakes on the two-way conversion of a stretch of Chapel Street downtown — after criticizing New Haven’s transportation department for moving too fast to implement the project, without first getting the board’s approval.
Alder Anna Festa, right, makes a motion to cut three proposed finance jobs.
Finance Committee alders voted to leave the mayor’s “primarily status-quo budget” primarily as is — while tweaking it to prioritize food aid, street-level maintenance, and reserves for an era of turbulent Trump funding.