Uma Ramiah

They had decided to change their organization’s name. So Dennis Cahill stood up in front of the group, about 50 strong, and led them in a chant. “Be aware: we’re no longer the Public Housing Resident Network!” he announced, suited and bespectacled, arms in the air. “We’re now the Publicly-ASSISTED Housing Resident Network. Say it […]

Like Connecticut, Florida, Georgia and Texas have aging working populations. But unlike Connecticut, those three southern states are attracting younger, highly educated professionals who will replace older workers when they retire. As soon as 2015, the size of Connecticut’s working age population will peak, and those replacing the state’s retiring workers will be disproportionately younger […]

Close to 350 community activists, immigrants, local leaders and residents marched down Main Street in East Haven Saturday, hoping to draw attention to issues of alleged racial profiling in East Haven’s police department. Marchers called for an end to alleged racial profiling Flanked by a heavy police presence, the group carried signs and shouted slogans […]

New Haven — City and law enforcement leaders are calling on Gov. Dannel P. Malloy to reject a U.S. Department of Homeland Security initiative they say would encourage racial profiling and undermine the city and state’s power to police themselves. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano At a news conference today at City Hall, Mayor John […]

Once sex offenders in Connecticut are released from prison, they are unlikely to be sent back for another sex crime, according to a report released Wednesday by the state Office of Policy and Management. Of 746 sex offenders released in Connecticut in 2005, five years later, less than 4 percent had been re-arrested and charged […]

East Haven — Michael P. Lawlor, the state’s undersecretary for Criminal Justice and Planning, said Wednesday evening that the state may examine the convictions of defendants who were arrested by the four local police officers now facing federal charges stemming from a racial-profiling investigation. “These four officers are very tainted — in essence they were […]

East Haven — At a news conference Monday morning at town hall, Mayor Joseph Maturo announced that Chief of Police Leonard Gallo — named in an ongoing federal investigation of discriminatory policing — would retire at the end of the week. East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo “His decision to retire at this time is a […]

The arrest Tuesday of four East Haven police officers after a federal investigation has one Connecticut rights coalition pushing for a stronger racial profiling law. Mongi Dhaouadi, Connecticut Civil Rights Coaliton “We felt this is the right time for us to come forward and say that discrimination against one part of our community is discrimination […]

It’s expensive to be poor. And it’s compounded by a struggling economy. In response, Connecticut is one of many states pushing financial literacy training. The Connecticut Association for Human Services (CAHS) and Citi Community Development (CCD) have announced a new effort to set up low-income people with “safe” bank accounts and basic financial education. It’s called […]

A soon-to-be-occupied room at Bethsaida community Norwich — Cookies shouldn’t make you cry. But when Debbie dropped a raw egg on the kitchen floor, it was just too much. “I lost it,” she said, laughing at the memory a few days later, sitting on a plush couch in the living room of her new home. […]

The recession — and its aftermath — haven’t kept Connecticut’s top wage earners from earning more. Those doing well before the recession saw strong wage growth in the past five years, while those at the bottom lost jobs and made minimal wage gains. In salary terms, according to a new report by the policy group […]

Sixty guns of various shapes, sizes and lethality were laid out on plastic folding tables, arranged by size and labeled numerically with masking tape. These were the result of a one-day gun buyback program offered by the New Haven Police Department Saturday. Guns collected at the New Haven event “The success of events like these […]