Reflecting on her first year in office, New Haven Mayor Toni Harp says she has been pleased with the city’s progress, especially with the drop in violent crime and new efforts to keep endangered teens safe and in school.
Paul Bass | New Haven Independent
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New Haven—Hartford—Springfield rail upgrade on track
A $365 million project is underway to upgrade Connecticut’s 62-mile rail corridor and enable Amtrak to run 16 of trains along the New Haven-to-Hartford-to-Springfield track each day, up from the current six. That project—which includes adding tracks and fixing bridges and culverts — is on track to be completed some time in late 2016.
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Reporting live from Church Street … Tom Foley?
Yep, that was Tom Foley, Gov. Dannel Malloy’s biggest Republican headache, on the streets of downtown New Haven Wednesday with a microphone in hand and video camera in tow.
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Connecticut prisons boost intelligence gathering
Connecticut’s top jailer has doubled his intelligence squad — and he’s just gotten started. The squad is reviewing phone calls and collecting other information at each of the state’s corrections facilities.
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Blumenthal calls for ban on ‘the new Joe Camel’
Flanked by two Yale doctors and brandishing packages of fruit-flavored “e-hookahs,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal Monday renewed his fight against tobacco industry marketing to kids, calling e-cigarettes and e-hookahs “the new Joe Camel.”
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100 days in, New Haven’s Toni Harp jarred by teen murders
In her new job as mayor of New Haven, Toni Harp knew she’d be working more than full time. She didn’t expect, she said, to be working seven days a week from 8 a.m. until 9:30 or 10 or 11 p.m.
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Utah upbringing shaped Toni Harp’s vision
New Haven — Henry Nathaniel moved west to Utah to attend a college in order to avoid “paper bag tests” of his skin color. Two generations later, his adopted daughter found herself the only black student in a Salt Lake City middle school — where she learned lessons she would one day bring with her […]
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Top bundler in Toni Harp mayoral bid lost $800,000 New Haven contract (New Haven Independent)
New Haven — One day after their company lost a lucrative city contract due to fraud, nine out-of-town doctors ponied up $1,000 apiece to the mayoral campaign of frontrunner Toni Harp. The donors work for Hamden-based Connecticut Orthopaedic Specialists. Their company took in around $800,000 this past fiscal year as authorized orthopaedic caregivers for New […]
