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(Board of) Ethics revival coming soon to 165 Church, with Matthew Watson's newly approved appointment.
A New Havener with a background in military intelligence was approved for a new mission — to help bring New Haven’s ethics board back to life.
by | May 22, 2025 1:39 pm | Comments (9)
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Steve Winter and Justin Elicker, celebrating court's block of Trump's "illegal and unjustified" funding freeze.
Another federal judge has ruled for New Haven and against the Trump administration, ordering the feds to reinstate three environmental grants totaling $31 million.
by | May 21, 2025 10:08 am | Comments (4)
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Adam Marchand at Monday's full board meeting.
The Board of Alders is working to revive a forgotten commission dedicated to advocating for more funding for the city.
by | May 20, 2025 4:01 pm | Comments (1)
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Community connectors: Reelection-runner Alders Caroline Tanbee Smith and Gary Hogan at WNHH FM.
First-term Alder Gary Hogan is meeting with some of his new colleagues this week to see if they can find more money for nonprofits when they vote next week on a new city budget.
First-term Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith is speaking with colleagues about whether they can find more money for a school system facing up to 129 staff layoffs.
If they find themselves back in City Hall’s alder chambers to help decide the following year’s budget, they hope to bring forward ways to boost library programming and budding catering businesses.
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by | May 19, 2025 3:47 pm | Comments (22)
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At First Student's Middletown Ave. lot.
First Student location manager Michael McDaniel: "Safety is our highest priority in our company."
The Elicker administration is looking to install cameras on school buses as part of a new automatic-enforcement system that would send out $250 tickets to the owners of cars that illegally pass stopped school buses.
by | May 16, 2025 9:47 am | Comments (20)
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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.
That means, overall, spending next fiscal year is on track to increase by 3.63 percent and the local tax rate by 2.3 percent, just as the mayor originally proposed in March.
Continue reading ‘Alders Endorse Mayor's Budget, Mill Rate Bump’
by | May 14, 2025 4:13 pm | Comments (24)
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Community Resilience Director Tirzah Kemp (center) in a room full of advocates for funding schools, food, and more.
(Updated) Mayor Justin Elicker hopes to add 13 new city jobs to New Haven’s general fund budget in the coming fiscal year.
Alders are now weighing whether to approve those new positions amid a host of separate funding requests from local food pantries, teachers, homeless rights advocates, and others.
Continue reading ‘By The #'s: 13 New Jobs Pitched For City Hall’
by | May 14, 2025 1:57 pm | Comments (12)
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Fair Haven Alder Miller: Don't approve liquor-permit special exception.
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The site of the former Grand Cafe at 118 Grand.
The Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously rejected a bid to open an alcohol-selling “poetry cafe” at the site of the troubled former Grand Cafe — on the grounds that a new bar at that Fair Haven spot could present a threat to public safety.
by | May 7, 2025 3:11 pm | Comments (16)
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Broken windows at City Hall Tuesday.
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Mayor Elicker (center) with Sgt. Shumway and Chief Jacobson: This is the third time in less than two years this same man has broken City Hall windows.
City police have arrested a 42-year-old man for throwing rocks and breaking four windows on the second floor of City Hall.
by | May 6, 2025 9:34 am | Comments (4)
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McCarthy with Mayor Elicker in January.
New Haven has a new chief administrative officer in former firefighter Justin McCarthy, now that he’s received unanimous approval for the position from the Board of Alders Monday night.
by | May 2, 2025 10:28 am | Comments (3)
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Lorrice Grant, director of the food pantry Loaves and Fishes: "My heart breaks for the families that are coming in the door looking for hope, and they’re seeing just a few cans left..."
Grant's fellow food advocates held up signs saying "Food is a Human Right," "Hungry for Change," and "Good Food For All."
Lines outside the food pantry six hours early.
Food bank delivery trucks 7,000 pounds lighter than usual.
Bare shelves. Empty stockrooms. Cans in the kitchen cupboard, but no produce or protein in the fridge.
Those scenes are unfolding in New Haven’s food pantries and family kitchens as the Trump administration’s food funding cuts collide with growing local hunger.
by | May 1, 2025 3:17 pm | Comments (22)
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Testifiers take alders to school.
Ditch the software-driven learning, standardized testing, and tech-oriented trainings. Keep the human connections at the heart of every school.
That message resounded from over 20 educators, students, and school staff on Thursday evening at the Board of Alders Finance Committee’s final public hearing on the upcoming city budget.
by | Apr 30, 2025 3:33 pm | Comments (22)
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Elicker: "Now is the time for us to put the feet on the gas of resistance."
The Trump administration has potentially suspended $27 million in federal grants related to climate, health, and environmental resiliency that had been slated for New Haven.
Mayor Justin Elicker revealed that number as he criticized the president for presiding over “100 days of American decline.”
Continue reading ‘Mayor: 100 Days In, City At Center Of Trump "Resistance"’
by | Apr 25, 2025 4:46 pm | Comments (45)
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Negrón: "Losing sleep" over potential teacher layoffs.
Supt. Madeline Negrón may lay off 129 employees, including 56 teachers, if the state and city cannot close an anticipated $16.5 million budget shortfall for New Haven Public Schools.
by | Apr 24, 2025 8:53 pm | Comments (7)
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The Brewery Sq. complex at 19 River St.
The Board of Alders unanimously approved a municipal tax break for two developers planning to renovate a Fair Haven apartment complex and double the number of below-market-rent units there.
by | Apr 23, 2025 10:39 am | Comments (7)
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Veo scooters and the riding boundaries slated for the pilot program.
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Alder Anna Festa: "Another mode of public transportation" is on its way.
Rent-per-ride e‑scooters are officially coming to New Haven in time for summer.
by | Apr 22, 2025 10:12 am | Comments (0)
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At work Monday repairing City Hall's roof, gutters, parapet ...
... with a focus on the annex portion of the building.
Construction workers have begun an estimated $250,000 in repairs to City Hall’s roof, gutters, and parapet in a bid to stop water from leaking into the municipal office building.
by | Apr 22, 2025 9:31 am | Comments (9)
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Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers: "It's time to stand on the core values that have always powered our city's fight for justice."
President Donald Trump poses an urgent threat to basic rights. So does the poverty that has flourished since long before Trump took office.
New Haven must be ready to fight both.
Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers conveyed that message by way of the alders’ annual Black and Hispanic Caucus State of the City address on Monday night.
Continue reading ‘Walker-Myers: The Fight Against Racism Is Bigger Than Trump’
by | Apr 17, 2025 3:27 pm | Comments (6)
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Blumenthal: Visa revocations have been "horrific."
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal marked Thursday’s “day of action” for higher education by sending a letter to senior Trump administration officials demanding information about at least 53 international students across Connecticut who have had their visas revoked.
Blumenthal, Mayor Justin Elicker and 20 orange-clad members of Local 33, Yale’s graduate student union, also gathered on the second floor of City Hall to decry those visa revocations, which the senator described as an “attack on higher education.”
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal, Elicker Blast Visa Revocations’
by | Apr 15, 2025 9:25 am | Comments (12)
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Volunteers Tony Evans and Zelinda Clerk prep food for new Community Soup Kitchen outpost in the Hill.
As the Trump administration slashes federal food bank funding, local food access advocates are calling for New Haven to step in with nearly $1 million in city support.
by | Apr 9, 2025 9:12 am | Comments (19)
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Alder Marx (left): “I’m concerned about scooters continuing behaviors we’re already seeing: not stopping at red lights, using phones.”
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The Veo scooter and the proposed parking sites, as outlined in a city presentation.
Now that streetside e‑bike rentals have rolled into New Haven, are e‑scooters next?
Alders on the City Services and Environmental Policy Committee weighed that question, as they advanced a proposal to allow 250 rent-per-ride electric scooters in downtown New Haven.
by | Apr 8, 2025 3:09 pm | Comments (0)
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A 2021 vigil honoring Camryn "Mooka" Gayle at the corner now named after her.
“I told you, I told you,” cried Elizabeth Robinson. “I wasn’t gonna give up.”
She was talking to the memory of her 17-year-old daughter, Camryn “Mooka” Gayle, about the Newhallville intersection where Gayle died in a car crash in 2021.
Thanks to a Board of Alders vote Monday night, that intersection is now officially designated “Camryn’s Corner.”
by | Apr 8, 2025 8:36 am | Comments (21)
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Pullen: First comes the letter, then comes the tax bill.
The Elicker administration is stepping up efforts to collect car taxes, by hiring a firm to help identify motor vehicles that aren’t — but should be — on the city’s tax rolls.
by | Apr 1, 2025 9:52 am | Comments (16)
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1447 Chapel, home to a "cordial" rent-hike dispute.
A 75-year-old tenant’s monthly rent will increase by $100 — after the Fair Rent Commission chipped away at the landlord’s compromise proposal of $150, following an initial suggested hike of $350.
by | Mar 27, 2025 11:51 am | Comments (17)
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Brewery Square: $24M renovation, 17-year tax break deal in the works.
A Fair Haven brewery-turned-apartment complex on the Quinnipiac River is on the brink of getting a new owner, a new tax break, and a new boost in affordable rentals.