This week, two events brought another sad day in America. The foremost is the Texas elementary school shooting which claimed the lives of youngsters in second to fourth grade. Kids in second grade haven’t even reached an age measured in double digits. They haven’t even spent a decade in this...
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...crisis that has overwhelmed psychiatric services for those in need, particularly youth and adolescents. Connecticut is no exception. The Connecticut state legislature recently passed three sweeping laws in an attempt to address the crisis, and Mark D’Antonio, spokesperson for Yale New Haven Health, said on Monday that Yale New Haven...
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...the cubs that come to the center, he said. Ethan names them based on the places where they were found. “For one of these cubs, he’s thinking Newtown is a lot like Newton,” Kilham said. “So maybe Isaac Newton” after the 17th-century English physicist who discovered the law of gravity....
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...cars.” The Green Party has several thousand members in Connecticut, she said, and its platform is to promote “democracy, social justice, ecology, and peace.” Its first candidate for office ran in the 1985 election for Mayor of New Haven. No party candidate has been elected to the General Assembly, or...
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...He said that, in particular, Bridgeport has received just $35 million for education — compared to Hartford’s $85 million and New Haven $118 million — a huge disparity. Multi-tiered solutions “We have to invest our dollars that we’re going to get from marijuana and force whoever’s in the legislature or...
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...those living in urban areas. “The surprise was the more progressive people who came out against it because of the potential of profiling and disparate treatment,” said State Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, perhaps the most vocal lawmaker on policing issues. “I think when all the parts of the spectrum...
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...share” legislation, confirming that new residents are a burden. Once or twice even the mayors of Hartford and New Haven have been candid about wanting to disperse their poorest residents to the suburbs. Indeed, poverty is no virtue, for with the poor come crime, dependence, and neglected children who wreck...
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...for a number of years in a neighborhood that was heavily impacted by the war on drugs, such as Hartford, Bridgeport, New Haven and some of Connecticut’s other cities. Correa, who grew up in East Hartford, qualified as a social equity applicant. With her status, she would be able to...
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...know, if these aren’t viable entities. Somebody can come here with an 8-30g [affordable housing] application,” warned Bourret. “So, this is one way to keep these entities viable. You know, the University of New Haven left the Art Academy, and they’re trying to put the Art Academy back into a...
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...not stop here. We have grown accustomed to election-day screw ups in Connecticut´s larger cities, but this does not make them any less acceptable. Be it malfunctioning machines in New Haven, ballot shortages in Bridgeport, or long lines in Hartford, we keep tolerating messy, erratic, clumsy election laws. Some of...
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...former vice-chairman of the party who lives in Newtown, handily won the nomination for state Treasurer, receiving more than 47 percent of the delegates. Two other Treasurer candidates, Karen Dubois-Walton of New Haven and Dita Bhargava of Greenwich, each garnered more than 25 percent of the delegates, comfortably qualifying them...
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...As Rapini addressed the jubilant crowd, he said he would bring in new voters to the Republican party.. “My number one priority is going to be the incredible Americans of our Hispanic community, because they are our brothers and sisters. They see our common values of God, country, family, and...
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...that.” Donors contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to Mill River Park, but that has not been its history. The park was first planned in the 1920s, when city officials envisioned a New York-style “Central Park,” but nothing was built for decades. At one point the Army Corps of Engineers...
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...CHDC Treasurer Yolanda Castillo, CHDC Founding Member Miguel Castro, CHDC Chair Efraín Domínguez, President, New London City Council David Feliu, CHDC Vice-chair Minnie Gonzalez, State Representative Kay Muñoz, CHDC Secretary Aidee Nieves, President, Bridgeport City Council Geraldo Reyes, Jr., State Representative Tomás Reyes, former Chief of Staff, New Haven Mayor’s...
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...divisions run when it comes to public safety and crime depending on one’s experience, political leanings, and street address. “The perspective you have of crime generally as an individual is about what you see in your area,” said State Sen. Gary Winfield, D-New Haven, who recalled growing up with a...
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GUILFORD — A change in state law could allow Guilford schools to begin an Open Choice program with New Haven Public Schools as soon as September 2023. The Open Choice program allows students from urban school districts such as New Haven, Bridgeport and Hartford to send a number of students...
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...process called “dual teaching,” or sometimes known as a “hybrid model.” The bill will also allow Guilford to establish an Open Choice program with New Haven – bringing urban children to the suburban schools – and require the teaching of Asian American and Pacific Islander studies in K-12 schools beginning...
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...Rep. Toni Walker, D-New Haven, chair of the legislature’s budget committee. Republicans expressed concerns that part of the funding for programs was supported by federal coronavirus relief dollars, which will run out at the end of 2024. “We have ongoing, recurring expenses that are being funded by this one-time revenue,”...
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...chamber and the public to increase compensation and to ensure that elected officials are compensated fairly,” said State Sen. Bob Duff, D-Norwalk, who was followed briefly by State Sen. Martin Looney, D-New Haven. The bill also would give a raise to the Governor, who now makes $150,000 annually, to equal...
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...EPA cays Connecticut is in “severe non-compliance” with Federal clean air rules, especially Fairfield, New Haven and Middlesex counties. Our air literally stinks. So while I’m happy the state has finally committed to a Clean Air Act, it will take until 2040 for many of its provisions to take effect. ...
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...340B purchased medications to patients. Since then, the amount of contract pharmacies has grown by 4,000%. Some hospitals in Connecticut do business through pharmacies in Texas and California. How is that benefitting Connecticut patients? Even contracts at Connecticut’s own Hartford Healthcare and Yale New Haven Health have skyrocketed according to...
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...an opportunity to make meaningful change for the future of my young children, of your young children, for the children all across Connecticut,” State Rep. Roland Lemar, D-New Haven, said. “We can make the investments now, with partnership at the federal level, to electrify our school bus fleets, and to...
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...target is a “critical direction” for those involved in planning and implementing Connecticut’s energy policies, and follows Rhode Island – which set a zero-carbon target of 2030 – and New York, which shares Connecticut’s goal of zero-emission electricity by 2040. “Committing Connecticut to a 100% zero-carbon electricity supply by 2040...
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...evil acts committed against incarcerated people contributing to my resignation from New Haven Correctional Center in 2019. The biggest factors contributing to recidivism and poor treatment of incarcerated people are the dehumanizing environment, abuse of power, and toxic group conformity. Accountability, external oversight, and transparency are necessary to create correctional...
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The past few years have witnessed a hip hop resurgence across New England. And every city from New Haven to Providence, Burlington to Portland seems to have at least one up-and-coming rapper making their presence felt. In Portland, Maine, that’s Myles Bullen, who brings a style that separates him from...
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...into Connecticut from other states. “What we need is help from Washington,” Senate Minority Leader Kevin Kelly, R-Stratford, said. “If this is such a priority, why is Congress not acting to make sure that New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana are cleaning up their air? And why are we...
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...Calvary Church in New Haven. “What better way to demonstrate this – that you care about children, that you care about our communities — than to fully and equitably invest in education, and do it right now.” According to the Office of Fiscal Analysis, 164 of the state’s 169 public...
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...council received donations from New Haven ornithologist and philanthropist Richard English in 1985 to establish an eponymous bird sanctuary on the 255-acre property located at 101 Paper Mill Road in Killingworth. According to the suit, after the founder’s death in 2011, the Richard L. English Fund continued to make donations...
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...of health in New Haven, and Aisling McGuckin, director of health in Waterbury, expressed support for the bill. But Charles Brown Jr, district director of health for the Central Connecticut Health District, which serves the towns of Berlin, Newington, Rocky Hill, and Wethersfield, testified in writing that the new regulations...
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...better prepared to enforce standards and uphold accountability in police work. But Connecticut will ignore another big issue arising from the Soulemane case: his longstanding mental illness, which was well known to his family, doctors, and police in New Haven, where he lived, and which made his untimely death predictable....
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