Uber and Lyft drivers are closer to taking home a larger share of each ride’s pay thanks to a favorable committee vote in Hartford last week.
Thomas Breen | New Haven Independent
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With 314 bills, New Haven Democrats aim high
New Haven and Hamden’s Democratic state legislators are pursuing a list of goals in hundreds of bills they’ve introduced this year.
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New Haven seniors pin down Lamont
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont fielded a number of pointed questions on everything from abortion rights to highway tolls from a group of well informed senior citizens in a recent campaign stop in New Haven.
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Lamont struggles to connect
As the 212 bus left downtown for Grand Avenue in New Haven, Skyler Shepard told Democratic gubernatorial front-runner Ned Lamont about his recent struggles with homelessness. The Greenwich businessman listened and asked Shepard questions about his family and his new job at a local bar. The interaction was emblematic of a two-day campaign swing Lamont made to test his retail-politicking chops on urban, diverse, and poor and working-class constituents — a population Lamont has said he and the state Democratic Party strives to represent.
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Posted inJustice
Lawlor sees progress in prison reform
Mike Lawlor Mike Lawlor has three goals for criminal justice reform in Connecticut: Reduce crime. Reduce spending. And restore the public’s confidence in the system. From his vantage point as a professional criminal justice reformer, Connecticut is well on its way to achieving all three. Lawlor, who has served as the state’s under secretary for criminal […]
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House passes billboard brightness bill
Spurred by public opposition to a blinding, blinking billboard on New Haven’s Whalley Avenue, state legislators voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would allow cities and towns to regulate the illumination of public advertisements, so long as those signs have the technological ability to calibrate their own brightness.
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A new vision for New Haven: five Long Wharf districts
New Haven won’t have just one Long Wharf district if an ambitious new plan takes form. It will have five urban, walkable Long Wharfs connected by a ribbon-like park.