(Opinion) Teachers need more zeroes at the end of their paychecks. Budding corporate leaders need more zeroes at the end of their pizza-flavored civic “donations.” Renters need fewer zeroes at the end of their monthly fees.
Events of the past two weeks called attention to those ongoing needs, as more teachers fled New Haven’s public schools (62 so far this academic year!), another luxury-apartment plan raised complex affordable-housing and demolition/displacement questions in the Hill … and a growing top local employer that developed cancer-fighting drugs tried its hand at baking philanthropy headlines at BAR.
Those are among the topics visited in the latest edition of the New Haven Independent’s weekly opinionated v‑log news summary, direct from our assignment desk my compost heap. Click on the above video to watch it.
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Arvinas CEO John Houston prepares an Arvinas pie at BAR.
Other recent editions of the News From The Compost Heap:
The exodus from teaching is inevitable as the whole education system slowly implodes. Too many people made money and not enough are getting educated.
The Hill and Hamilton St areas were shattered once by "redevelopment". Some made a killing. Time for more cashing in! On the bright side, It serves the Hospital to have a nice area around it and that serves us customers of the hospital! I don't see how rent prices will fall when the pressure of the taxes props them up! Those who can't afford will have to leave; those who can afford to do so will stay. That is the cycle that has been going on since the federal govt interfered in the housing market to inflate costs/deflate landlord agency/thwart natural evictions for cause.