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We at the Publicly Assisted Housing Resident Network and the Connecticut Housing Coalition thank state Sen. Toni Harp and Rep. Toni Walker for their work in restoring payment in lieu of taxes and tax abatement grant funding for public housing to the...

Amistad America, owner of the famed replica of the 19th-century schooner that brought captive Africans to Connecticut, will continue to receive about $360,000 a year from the state as long as it re-establishes its tax-exempt status, legislators said...

Six of the mayoral candidates spoke at a forum Monday night of their solutions for the issues facing the city's youth, including education, jobs, violence and the environment. Though many of them agreed with each other, there were differing opinions...

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is revising a plan to significantly reduce money for HUSKY A, the state-funded insurance program for low-income children and their parents, after his proposal failed to clear a legislative committee. Under Malloy's plan, the...

If you think democracy is stagnating, come to New Haven. You will find it alive and well. Mayor John DeStefano Jr. is stepping down, and thus far seven of Mr. DeStefano's fellow Democrats are seeking the party's nomination to succeed him. The number...

State Sen. Toni Harp will officially file papers Monday entering the crowded mayoral race with high-ranking members of the Democratic Party giving her the best odds of winning the nomination in July and the primary in September, which in this city is...

James Hillhouse High School Principal Kermit Carolina hasn't decided yet if he's running for mayor, but that didn't stop him Tuesday from questioning state Sen. Toni Harp's decision to run. Carolina claimed that Harp's entry in the race, after...

What was long speculated, is now a certainty. State Sen. Toni Harp, D-10 the powerful co-chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, will run for mayor of New Haven, shaking up the fluid race yet again. Harp, 65, will formally file papers for her...

In a surprise move, state Sen. Toni Harp said Monday that she is running for mayor of New Haven – a move that means a potentially raucous Democratic primary. One of best-known politicians in the Elm City, Harp currently represents about half of...

The legislature's Appropriations Committee is proposing a biennial budget that would spend $10 million more than the governor proposed for fiscal year 2014 and $38 million more in fiscal year 2015. The budget -- which proposes spending $21.5 billion...

The General Assembly's appropriations committee voted Friday to increase state spending by nearly 10 percent over the next two years in a state budget that cuts millions from hospitals, increases salaries for judges by 5 percent, and extends a tax...

Tobacco can make you sick and kill you. So can too much sugar in your diet, which most scientists agree is keyed into the obesity epidemic that's producing a generation of bloated kids and fat-plagued adults. We tax the hell out of cigarettes to...