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Governor Malloy Ought Not To Sign Fugitive’s Warrant

A Black Man’s View of

“Lemonade” The Kidnapped School Girls in Nigeria?

1 Union Ave. Lock-Up Set To Close

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Governor Malloy Ought Not To Sign Fugitive’s Warrant away from prison. “I was on an airplane back to Connecticut before they knew I was gone,” he said. That was in 1968. For the next 48 years, he lived peacefully in Connecticut, working as an auto mechanic, a part owner of a service station, and, for a time, a teacher at the Henry Abbott Technical School in Danbury. He maintained a Connecticut driver’s license under the name Robert Stackowitz all those years.

By Norm Pattis Gov. Dannel Malloy will soon be given an opportunity to demonstrate his commitment to the Second Chance Society to which he committed more than one year ago. His stated goal is to reduce the number of people who go to prison unnecessarily. He can demonstrate the commitment by refusing to sign papers permitting Robert Stackowitz, 71, of Sherman, Connecticut, to be extradited to Georgia. Mr. Stackowitz, I should disclose, is a client. He made national news last week when he was arrested some 48 years after walking away from a Georgia prison. The good people of Georgia say they want him back. The extradition gears are already turning. Law students are taught that the criminal sanction satisfies four goals: punishment, rehabilitation, protection of society, and deterrence. Judged by these standards, there is little justification for sending Mr. Stackowitz back to Georgia.

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Reeling from a bitter divorce, Mr. Stackowitz was all of 22 years old when he left Connecticut to put some distance between himself and his troubles. He landed in Atlanta, where he met two guys with a plan to make some money: the burglary of a home. Mr.

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Photo credit: Kevin Focht Norm founded and leads Pattis Law Firm, a Connecticut based criminal defense and civil rights firm which focuses on serious felonies including violent felonies, white collar crimes, sex offenses, drug crimes, and misconduct by lawyers, doctors, and government officials. Pattis has defended capital murder cases and won federal civil rights verdicts for police brutality, false arrest, discrimination, malicious prosecution, and violations of rights including several million dollar discrimination verdicts. He has argued scores of criminal appeals in both State and Federal Courts. Stackowitz agreed to be the driver.

12 years.

Things were going according to plan until the homeowner arrived on the scene. He was subdued and tied to a chair. Mr. Stackowitz participated.

At first, Mr. Stackowitz served on an infamous chain gang. When prison officials learned he was a good mechanic, a task he demonstrated by tuning up the warden’s car, he was made a trustee and given permission to travel throughout the state to service school buses.

The three defendants were promptly caught and tried. Mr. Stackowitz was sentenced to 17 years in prison. He co-defendants were sentenced to terms of 17 and

One day, he simply walked

Time has not been good to him. He now suffers congestive heart failure, bladder cancer, diabetes, circulatory problems, and a host of other health issues that keep him tethered to his kitchen table. Difficulty breathing renders him unable to sleep on a bed – he sleeps, when he can, in a recliner. The brief walk to a restroom is difficult to accomplish. Mr. Stackowitz outran the law for decades, but Father Time has him firmly in hand. Not long ago, he applied for Social Security benefits, and this permitted lawmen to find him. He was arrested, taken into custody, and held for five days until released one midnight on bond. It took him more than three days to get a legal call to me. Why would Georgia want him back? And why would Connecticut send a man on death’s

door back to Georgia? Mr. Stackowitz lived a lifetime after his escape without incident. He’s been rehabilitated; specific deterrence has been accomplished; the two-plus years he spent in prison was punishment enough. The only reason to send him back is to promote general deterrence – to send a message to others that escape is intolerable, and respect for the law is required. But isn’t that placing principal above good sense? I am reminded of Inspector Javert’s relentless pursuit of Jean Valjean in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. In the end, Javert killed himself when he realized the there is no life in the letter of the law. Justice needs to be tempered with mercy – a man can repent, turn his life around, and become a valued and productive member of society given the right conditions and enough time. Robert Stackowitz has turned his life around. He should be permitted to live the balance of his life in peace: Extradition may well kill him, his health is so fragile. And to what end? A blind and unthinking adherence to principle? Don’t sign an extradition warrant, governor. Demonstrate that the Second Chance Society is more than an empty promise.

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Can the Muslim community really count on the FBI to protect it in mosques, schools, and neighborhoods as racial profiling and counterterrorism efforts escalate across the country?

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Speaking on religion-based hate crimes, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Miller said the office has instituted a new hate crime initiative, urging regional police chiefs to look out for, help report, and log hate crimes as he and his colleagues become increasingly aware that “this is an atmosphere where there’s more tolerance for these types of crimes” based on race and religion.

What about an estimated 55 percent of kids who are reporting bullying, often because of their religion? Will discriminatory acts against black citizens, religious and not, rise in the wake of last year’s endent.org/index.php/archives/ entry/it_back_fired/»shooting at a Charleston church, and this year’s coming presidential election?

Daly at Wednesday’s summit.

Those types of efforts dovetail with those of organizations like the The Anti-Defamation League. ADL Connecticut Regional Office Director Steve Ginsburg is rolling out a pilot program in state schools intended to help Muslim children feel safe and welcome, instead of afraid of backlash, in their classrooms.

What are schools doing to prevent guns coming through their front doors? How are communities supposed to thrive when they are underresourced and over-policed? Do lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) people have a meaningful way of feeling safe and protected in their schools and social spaces? These questions arose and received answers at a Civil Rights Summit 2016 held Wednesday afternoon at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Haven on Church Street Welcoming a group of around 40 religious leaders, civil rights advocates, lawyers and concerned members of the public, ent.org/ index.php/archives/entry/ crime_masterminds_breaks_defended/ »Connecticut U.S. Attorney Deirdre Daly and other attorneys in the office offered updates on their civil-rights initiatives. And they answered those above questions. “We are very proud of and I am personally committed to the work we are doing,” said Daly. “It’s not just me it’s the office. But we can only do better with your help. This [summit] is for you to get a better sense of us.” From outreach to educational working groups in New Haven and elsewhere, several assistant

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U.S. attorneys explained the measures that Connecticut, with much of the country, is taking to combat discrimination based on race, religion, ability, criminal background and previous incarceration. Many still had questions and concerns after the presentations had ended, heartened by what they had seen and heard, but grappling with a different reality in their own communities. Religious Protection “How are you going to address anti-Muslim bullying?” asked Meriden mosque president Mohammed Qureshi, who also advocated for bringing civil rights summits like Wednesday’s outside of the U.S. Attorney’s office and into public spaces for a broader audience. He was echoed by representatives of Connecticut’s Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CT). Swaranjit Singh Khalsa said he has seen a

rise in racial profiling in Connecticut’s Sikh community, where uncut hair, open beards and turbans have been attracting the unwanted attention of law enforcement officials. “Our concern is with the FBI,” said a representative or CAIR-CT. “I love blue. I believe in blue. But we’ve got to work hand in hand. We feel like we’re being watched just because we’re Muslim.” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarala Nagala, who addressed Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Communities at the summit, nodded as he and Qureshi expressed their concerns. “There is a real counterterrorism effort” happening in the state and the country, which means that “there are going to be these investigations” sometimes, Nagala said. “We’re making sure that everyone feels safe in our communities,” she said, noting that the department is pairing up

“It’s a big learning curve for law enforcement,” Miller said. But “we are open for business at the U.S. Attorney’s office,” working closely with FBI agents like Mike Butsch and offering to teach law enforcement across the state about hate crimes, successful communication with members of a given community, and how best to conduct interviews with those reporting hate crimes. So far, Miller said, Hartford’s police department has been the most responsive. “A Growing Concern” Community members like Tamara Lanier, criminal justice chair of the Connecticut NAACP, Laura Lillian West of Black Social Justice, and Rev. Steven Cousin, a fourth-generation preacher at New Haven’s Bethel AME Church, asked young people of color whose rights are being violated by law enforcement officials. “There is a growing concern among minority communities that their rights don’t matter,” said Lanier. “The public needs to know that you’re here for them.” “You’re going to see more of a

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with the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities to institute cultural competency trainings with law enforcement officials and public institutions.

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1 Union Ave. Lock-Up Set To Close by MARKESHIA RICKS New Haven Independent

Starting July 1 people arrested in New Haven will not be held in the prisoner lock-up next to the police station at 1 Union Ave. They will probably head to a new holding center at the jail on Whalley Avenue. That’s because the lock-up at police HQ is slated to close. Like other state services, the lock-up, which the state runs, has fallen victim to budget cuts, according to Assistant Chief Anthony Campbell. And New Haven didn’t have the money to pick up the cost to keep it running.

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The city was notified April 14 that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy would cut funding to judicial branches as part of efforts to close a $930 million state budget gap. To minimize layoffs among judicial marshals, the decision was made to shut down some detention centers around the state, including the one located at the New Haven Police Department, Campbell said. Campbell, who oversees the department’s administrative bureau, handles many of the dayto-day operations at police headquarters. He said initially there was some thought that state Department of Corrections officers could staff the lock-up, but when it was determined that that wasn’t going to happen he started looking at what it might take for the police department to staff it. He said it would have required

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Campbell: City can’t assume costs.

a supervisor and three officers for each shift. Given the department’s own shortages, such staffing likely would have been impossible. It also was unclear whether the judicial marshals would be leaving their equipment behind for such tasks as video monitoring. “And we also would have had to figure out how we would feed them,” Campbell said of the prisoners. “That would be our responsibility also. When you think about it, it starts adding up quickly.” Chief Dean Esserman reached out to DOC Commissioner Scott Semple and Mike Lawlor,

undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning, and ultimately negotiated an agreement for corrections to take New Haven prisoners at the Whalley Avenue detention center. The police department will provide an officer to handle processing prisoners, which is the current arrangement at 1 Union Ave., and a non-uniformed records clerk. Both would have to work out of the Whalley Avenue center instead of at police headquarters. Campbell said if negotiations with the police union and Local 884 go smoothly, the change won’t have any fiscal impact on the city’s budget. Because the officer and the clerk would be working out of a different location, it could be considered a change of work conditions for both positions. The police union has already expressed some discomfort with having an unarmed officer handling the processing. Campbell said a meeting with union officials is slated for Monday morning. He called the closing of the lock-up a done deal: “There’s no going back on that.” He said the order removing the judicial marshals from 1 Union Ave. and

effectively closing the lock-up also rescinds a 1993 letter to thenMayor John Daniels that created the arrangement in the first pla

arrested prisoners to the Whalley Ave. Facility. We are scheduling a sit down with our Union next week.”

That back story appeared largely unknown to the Board of Alders Wednesday night when the subject arose during a Finance Committee hearing on the $523.3 million upcoming fiscal year budget. Annex Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr. peppered city budget chief Joe Clerkin about the status of the lock-up and whether the city had any kind of financial contingency for operating the current lock-up should the Whalley Avenue detention center not be prepared to start accepting prisoners by July 1.

Assistant Chief Al Vazquez will handle the negotiations. Vazquez (who is retiring next month) oversees the patrol division, where the officer works who will process detainees.

Clerkin showed up to discuss the mayor’s proposed plans to close a last minute $4.6 million shortfall in the budget. Paolillo expressed concern that the Harp administration had entered into an agreement, with the lock-up, that might have fiscal consequences for the city that are not taken into account in the revised budget. Clerkin had few answers regarding the lock-up, except for his contention that there are no contingency funds for absorbing the operation of the 1 Union Ave. lock-up if for some reason the Whalley Avenue detention center decided it could not take prisoners. He produced a brief email from Police Chief Dean Esserman answering questions that Paolillo had apparently posed at a meeting between alder leadership and the administration the evening before. In the email, Esserman indicated that the mayor had been notified on April 14 about the decision to stop staffing the 1 Union Ave. lock-up, and she notified him. Since that time police officials had been working with Lawlor and the DOC. “Our Union was notified, as well as Command Staff and an announcement at Compstat,” the weekly data-sharing meeting at police headquarters, Esserman wrote. “We are planning to close the facility with the Judicial Branch on July 1 and bring

Paolillo expressed frustration that the administration had not communicated about the closing of the lock-up even though it had learned about that possibility almost a month ago, and now that alders do know about it, more details have not been more forthcoming. “It’s nice that it’s announced a Compstat, but the budget is not approved at Compstat,” Paolillo said. “It’s approved at 165 Church St. I’m not sure how this passes as an ample explanation on a service that is being provided every day, that the judicial branch probably has a staff of 25 on a dayto-day basis working in and out of detention. If we can’t go to Whalley Avenue, we would have to run [the lock-up] ourselves, and I’m not sure if we even have the capacity to run ourselves right now.” He asked Clerkin to comb through the budget for any other agreements or memoranda of understanding (MOU) such as the lock-up agreement and an agreement between the city and AFSCME Local 3144 over a grantwriting position in the police department that might create a budgetary headache for alders as they try to make sense of the budget. The grantwriting position was removed from the proposed city budget and then added back based on reading of a MOU that has been renewed multiple times between the city and Local 3144 going all the way back to June 2014. Finance Committee alders will deliberate and offer amendments to the budget at a 5:30 meeting Monday that will take place prior to their scheduled committee of the whole meeting.

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“Ladies With Guns” Lead City On Lead Monday that much more work needs to be done: The city’s housing stock is old, and old houses contain more lead paint. There isn’t always accurate screening of kids; when children, especially poor children, move from place to place, one environment can be safe and the screening test OK, yet the next residence can be toxic.

by ALLAN APPEL New Haven Independent

When “the ladies” entered “with their guns,” looking for lead, Mattie Hooks had lost her job, was on disability, and now was afraid she’d also lose her century-old Fair Haven home. The “guns” were X-ray flourescent devices designed to detect lead in paint. The ladies included Jennifer Sanjurjo of the city’s health department inspection team, Hooks not only did not lose her house — she’s on the verge of nabbing an interest-free, forgiveable $16,000 loan to abate all the lead conditions in her multifamily house. That story emerged Tuesday at a press conference convened at the city health department organized by by Connecticut U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro and Elizabeth Esty.

“Homes built before 1950, which includes 30 percent of the state’s homes, compared to just 19 percent nationally, are especially at risk for these elements. In New Haven, 83 percent of homes were built before 1978,” according to a release from the Congresswomen.

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Inspector Sanjurjo, armed.

the five microcrams is per the Center for Disease Control’s guidelines; one test with that amount triggers health department action. When a doctor or a lab makes such info available to the department, as as required by law, Sanjurjo or the department’s four other inspectors take their “guns” devices that emit radioactive gamma rays against a painted wall and measure the lead level — and begin to make a list of the “zapped” areas that need abatement.

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The Congresswomen were there to seek support for their Healthy Homes Tax Credit Act. A companion to a similar bill introduced in the Senate by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, the act would provide a $5,000 tax credit to help homeowners remove plumbing that contains lead, abate lead paint and dust, as well as complete radon and asbestos abatement. DeLauro said she wanted to meet the city’s health professionals in preparation for what she expects in the upcoming legislative session to be a tough fight, given budget constraints and Republican inaction lead issues despite the attention paid by the poisoning of Flint, Michigan’s drinking water. DeLauro said her colleagues from Michigan worry that when the story is out of the headlines, the hard work of infrastructure rebuilding and refocusing on lead poisoning from paint as well as corroded water pipes will prove more difficult. In New Haven, concerns lead poisoning cluster around paint, not water infrastructure, said Health Department Director Byron Kennedy. The new bill is designed to supplement the city’s successful

Hooks and Sanjurjo.

Health Department Senior Inspector Roz Hamilton and enviro health Director Kowalski.

lead inspection and abatement program from which Hooks is benefiting. Her loan will come out of federal Department Housing and Urban Development funds; the city’s health department has been awarded HUD loan funds for abatement for 20 years.. The city’s current funds have income eligibility requirements as well as insurance requirements— homeowners’ policies must allow the city to be a second mortgagee for five years. The loans are entirely forgiven after five years. The new legislation offers no direct money but tax credits, and has no income limits. DeLauro and Esty said they’re seeking to call attention to the debilitating effects

of lead on little kids in the wake of the water-borne lead poisoning catastrophe in Flint. DeLauro and Esty. Sunday, June 5, the health department plans to conduct its 16th annual educational picnic at Lighthouse Point Park to “shine a light on lead safety.” It runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and everyone’s invited. The city’s longtime environmental health director, Paul Kowalski, told the Congresswomen Monday that the city has set a standard in testing kids’ lead levels five micrograms per deciliter of blood that is significantly more stringent than the state’s 15 or 20 micrograms. Kennedy said

That list of required fixes is presented to the landlord, with the city’s vow, if necessary, to seek criminal prosecution. In most cases, the city has worked cooperatively with homeowners, Kowalski said. Back in 1995, the city recorded 420 children at or above a lead level of 20 micrograms per deciliter of blood, according to the health department. That number dropped to 119 children at or above a level of 10 micrograms in 2011 and has kept falling. The city received reports of 94 children with lead at that level in 2015. Hooks described herself as so relieved to be getting her house right she feels like “a kid in a candy store.” DeLauro heard from health department staffers around the table

As the press event’s participants sipped coffee and nibbled bacon and bagels, DeLauro asked for human stories, like Hooks’s, to augment the tough facts — namely that according to the state’s health department count as of 2013, 200 Connecticut children had lead poisoning, and approximately 60,000 had lead exposure. Hooks said she has nothing but kudos for the health department’s program, although she knew nothing about it, or the loan-for-abatement opportunity, and she called for more education. Her lead-free journey began when her tenant, a HUD Section 8 rental subsidy beneficiary, told her the apartment in Hooks’s home would have to be inspected for lead before it was approved. That’s what triggered the ladies “with guns” visit, their zapping her walls, and making her “freak out” that she might lose her home. The unfolding happy ending is that the abatement is on the verge of beginning, including replacement of windows, which is where a lot of loose lead dust accumulates, said Kowalski. Other suggestions that were made at the gathering, and which DeLauro took notes on, included: not establishing new programs but strengthening existing ones; and more scrutinyof day care centers, although Kowalski made clear “We inspect all day cares, although the state health department licenses them.”

by Jack Kramer

The AARP poll listed a sample of 1,000 state voters aged 25 years and older.

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Those fighting for Connecticut to adopt a paid family leave law, regardless of the size of the company workers are employed by, got some blunt advice from a lawmaker Thursday on how to kickstart their stalled initiative.

The results, AARP said, show that 83 percent “support” and 65 percent “strongly support” giving employees an opportunity to contribute to and utilize a limited amount of paid leave from work to care for themselves or a loved one who is recovering from a serious medical condition.

“The squeaky wheel gets the oil,’’ Rep. Robyn Porter, D-New Haven, told a group of activists during a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Connecticut Working Families Party.

The Connecticut Working Families Party poll said it randomly sampled 400 likely voters from across Connecticut.

Porter told the union organizers, workers, activists, and others in attendance that the group needs to do a “better job of framing and messaging” why family medical leave is a good idea that won’t cost employers money and won’t cost lawmakers votes come election time. The Office of Fiscal Analysis estimated this year that implementing a paid Family and Medical Leave program would cost anywhere between $13.6 million in 2017 and $18.9 million in 2018 to operate through the Department of Labor. That fiscal note ultimately doomed the bill. But sometimes it’s not about the money. “Lawmakers worry about having the support of people in their district,” Porter said. “All of us need to work harder explaining why this is a good idea. You’ve got to make your voices known up in Hartford — put a face to the issue.” In 2011, Connecticut passed the first statewide paid sick days policy in the country, granting workers who worked for companies with 50 or more employees that didn’t offer any type of leave an opportunity to earn paid time off to see a doctor, recover from an illness, or care for a sick child. Attempts to expand that policy to include more workers who fall under the Family and Medical Leave Act failed to get a vote in this year’s recently concluded General Assembly session.

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The Institute for Women’s Policy Research found nearly three out of four employees who take leave are at least partly paid by employers under existing policies, including paid sick time, vacation, and other forms of paid time off. An estimated 287,962 Connecticut workers annually take leave now. The Connecticut Business and Industry Association has said they are not opposed to businesses providing paid family and medical leave, but don’t believe the state should mandate it. The National Federation of Independent Business says that most small businesses already offer paid time off and mandating it will only hurt small businesses.

Robyn Porter, D-New Haven

to pass a law on this,” continued Porter, “but our state pales in comparison today.” Since 2011, according to Working Families Party statistics, 31 other cities and states have adopted fairer paid sick days programs. The states of Vermont and California have sick days regardless of the size of the company, Oregon has sick days for firms with 10 or more workers, and Massachusetts has sick days for companies with 11 or more employees. Meanwhile, Connecticut still is stuck on the 50 or more worker number. One of those participating in the discussion was Claudina Lara, who said she was fired from her job as a healthcare worker for a small Stratford company last year “because I had to have emergency surgery.” Claudina Lara Lara said her doctor told her, “I needed to rest,” and she subsequently missed several days of work. “When I tried to come back, I was told not to,” she said. Joelle Fishman, coordinator of the New Haven Peoples Center

and longtime community activist, said: “We were so proud when we first passed sick day legislation but look how far we’ve fallen. There is no excuse for that,” she told others at the round table. Another panelist, Jim Pandarau, who described himself as a “lifelong activist,” implored his cohorts to not give up the fight. “Nothing gets accomplished without a struggle,” Pandarau said. Lindsay Farrell, executive director of Connecticut Working Families, added: “We’re proud that our win (in 2011) is allowing 200,000 workers and their families to care for themselves or a loved one in need without risking their jobs or paychecks. But too many workers, both in Connecticut and across the country, are still facing the choice between their health and their paycheck.” Farrell and others on the panel pointed out two recent polls suggested there was strong support, across party lines, for Connecticut to adopt a paid Family and Medical Leave law. The polls were conducted by AARP Research and the Connecticut Working Families Party.

“We might have been the first

Their poll found that 75 percent of voters want the legislature to create a paid Family and Medical Leave program that allows them to contribute to a fund with a payroll deduction. That money would then be used to pay some

or most of their salary while they are on leave.

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Lawmaker Tells Advocates Not To Give Up On Pushing Paid Leave

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by MARKESHIA RICKS

we’re really doing it right now.”

New Haven Independent

It also didn’t hurt that Hoyte determined to stay even though much of her family, including her mother have moved away.

Sgt. Jacqueline “Jackie” Hoyte is no stranger to Dixwell Avenue. “As I kid, I hung out on Dixwell Avenue,” she said with a chuckle. “I went to all the Freddy Fixer parades and things like that. I smoked my first cigarette on the steps of the Dixwell Q House. I don’t smoke anymore, but I did all of those fun things. I got to enjoy the Q House and I am so glad that they’re going to be rebuilding it. It’s going to be great.” As the new district manager for the Dixwell neighborhood, Hoyte, who is 52 and has been a cop for 16 years, not only is no stranger to Dixwell she’s no stranger to its adjacent neighborhoods, Beaver Hills and Newhallville. She grew up in both neighborhoods, and in fact, it was her time living in Beaver Hills, particularly on Carmel Street that influenced her decision to become a police officer. Lt. Sam Brown, the former district manager for Dixwell, is now the deputy patrol commander for the department. It was the 1980s, and Hoyte was working a desk job as a patient administrator at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She recalled that the drug dealing and other crimes had gotten so bad that it was almost impossible to get home. The police department’s solution? Drop down on the dealers in vans. Beat the criminals, and some non-criminals, up and haul them off to jail. She was happy to have the cops intervene, but was not pleased with the abuse that accompanied arrests by the department’s so-called “BeatDown Posse.” By the late 1990s, she had applied to become a cop herself, and was admitted to the training academy.

“I’m here and I’m a New Havener,” she added proudly. “I live in this city and I love this city.”

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Hoyte checks in on Stetson.

school system, she is a proud alumna of Ivy Street School, Maruo-Sheridan and Hillhouse High School. She has lived in the city all her life, currently residing at Crawford Manor and serving as the liaison for a program that encourages police officers to live in public housing. She said she didn’t know that when she set out to become a police officer in her city that she was embarking on “community policing,” which then-Chief Nicholas Pastore introduced in 1990. “I wanted to make a difference and make a change and police the community differently,” she said. “Little did I know it was called community policing. I didn’t know to put that term to it.” She initially walked a beat downtown in the Wooster Square neighborhood. She has worked the majority of her 16 years—13 of those years to be exact—in the place where it all started, Beaver Hills. After spending a couple of years at the police academy and a year in records working with the first black woman to make captain in department history,

Patricia Helliger, Hoyte was tapped for the Dixwell job. “I’m doing exactly what I always wanted and my purpose for coming on to this job,” she said of being back in a neighborhood and working closely with residents. “I’m getting to do it now as the new district manager. I always did it as an officer, but this is really where the passion is and I feel it makes a bigger difference.” During the recent Freddy Fixer Parade weekend, Hoyte stopped by a health and wellness block party held at Stetson Branch Library to shake hands and introduce herself to the many people who attended the event. She said in just three weeks on the job as district manger she is impressed by Dixwell neighbors and their commitment to their neighborhood. She said she’s looking forward to building relationships and partnering with the community. “I’m just blown away with the Dixwell community,” she said singling out Stetson Branch Manger ndex.php/archives/entry/ diane_brown/»Diane Brown. “I

mean I always grew up around Dixwell and I knew people, but I’m really having a new experience. They’re phenomenal people. They’ve got great things going on and I’m just honored to be a part of that—that I get to work in partnership with them. That’s what community policing is all about.” Hoyte said it wasn’t easy coming into the department as a black woman, and she had to battle both sexism and racism at times. But she also got to be part of helping the department become more culturally sensitive and aware, and that work has had an impact, she said. “In the beginning years it was tough,” she said. “You had to get through the challenges of proving yourself and then being accepted. As you know, law enforcement is a predominately male field, so I had to prove myself, that I could do the job. Then I had to fight through the racism. There was lot of that and it was a very challenging area at that time, but we’ve grown since that time. I must say that the police department has come up, and

When she’s not attending events in Dixwell and learning the neighborhood and its concerns, she’s active in her church, Christian Love Center Church. She also is active with the residents of Crawford Manor. If all that didn’t keep her busy enough, Hoyte runs a not-forprofit organization aimed at helping women who have recently been divorced called istahoodlifesupport.org/ index.html»SistaHood Life Support Services. After enduring her own divorce four years ago, she decided she wanted to provide services for women who are experiencing the emotional, spiritual and financial impact of divorce. “Divorce is hard,” she said. “It hurts financially. At the time of my divorce ... there just weren’t any supports, just no place that helped.” All of these things, with a lot of help from her officers in Dixwell, many of whom are veteran cops who know the area well, help keep her firmly planted in New Haven. “I really love my community,” she said. “I really do. It’s a great time in my life, and it is the best move I could have made. This has been the greatest opportunity that PD could have given me.” 11

“I joined the police department because I didn’t like the way they were policing my community and treating the people in my community,” she said.As Hoyte likes to put it, she’s a true New Havener. Educated in the public

“When I joined the police department, that was a shift and change of how I really wanted to give back to my community and make a change in my community,” she said. When everyone else was moving, “I was in the middle of my career. And I was like, “I’m not leaving. I’ve got to fulfill my destiny.’ I just feel like it was destined for me to become even district manager.

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Dixwell’s New Top Cop Is New Haven Made

18 New Positions Axed; Tax Hike Averted by PAUL BASS

Harp and her budget officials unveiled the updated plan at a City Hall press conference.

It turned out that that version of the state budget included even more cuts to New Haven, totaling $9 million, Harp said Monday. Then, once the state House and Senate approved the final version of their budget by week’s end, that figure had shrunk to $4.6 million (thanks in part to a lessening of a promised statewide car-tax cut). The governor is expected to sign the budget.

They presented a revised $525 million proposed city budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, a proposal that goes before a Board of Alders Finance Committee Wednesday night for approval.

That $4.6 million last-minute gap still will require some hard work, Harp said, but her staff is “trying very hard” to avoid a mill rate increase and feels more confident about that prospect.

New Haven Independent

Mayor Toni Harp Tuesday proposed cutting planned new library and crossing-guard jobs and upping building permit fees rather than raising taxes in order to close a last-minute budget gap.

They had to revise their proposed budget at the last moment because the state just revised its upcoming year’s budget in order to close a $930 million gap and it sliced $4.6 million of promised urban aid that New Haven had counted on.

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Budget Chief Clerkin and Controller Daryl Jones detail the budget changes.

to call for hiring seven new public health nurses, a clerk typist in the human resources department, a legal secretary in the City Plan department, and a program coordinator for the building department.

Harp said the city was originally told to expect an $8.1 million, then a $9 million, urban aid cut. So she thanked New Haven’s state legislators in getting that number down to $4.6 million.

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“When they heard that [$.8.1 million] number, they went to bat for us,” Harp said. The administration still proposes to keep the mill rate steady at 41.55 for the second year in a row. To avoid a tax hike, it combined around $2.7 million in new cuts with $1.9 million in adjusted revenue projections, according to city budget chief Joe Clerkin. The adjusted revenue projections include: • Raising the cost of building permit fees from $2.70 to $3 per $1,000 worth of approved work. That ups the projected permit revenue in the budget by about $1.2 million, from $15 million to $16.2 million. The new projections do not assume more building projects coming online than assumed in March. The administration had already forecast a $5 million increase in fees based on ongoing projects at Yale, two planned Wooster Square

An earlier version of this story follows: City’s State Budget Hit Shrinks To $4.6M

Press gathered for Tuesday’s announcement, under the late Mayor Dick Lee’s watchful eye.

developments (which had been held up by lawsuits that a judge threw out on Monday), among other planned building in the city’s torrid market. * About $600,000 in extra parking meter fees. Clerkin said that the amount of monthly fees collected has risen faster than expected back in March, when the administration submitted its original budget proposal. • Another $100,000 in reimbursement from businesses for the use of police vehicles on extra-duty jobs. Again, Clerkin said, the actual reciepts in recent months have exceeded projections. The newly proposed cuts in the budget include: • $770,000 in lost state costsharing grants for the schools. The Board of Ed will have to find that money to cut on its own, Clerkin

and Harp said. • Another $565,000 in education costs from the city’s general fund — again, for the Board of Ed to identify. (The Board of Alders approves a single overall line item for education spending in the annual budget process.) • Cancellation of 18 planned new jobs: five school crossing guards, two librarians, a library technical assistant, a senior personnel analyst in human resources, three parks maintenance positions, a grant writer and two body camera specialists in the police department (which would complicate the rollout of body cameras), an urban design coordinator in the City Plan department, and a job employment coordinator and a housing code inspector in the Livable City Initiative. Harp’s revised budget continues

The final new state budget passed late last week by legislators sliced almost in half the amount of a cut in aid to New Haven and thus made it easier to avoid a local tax increase. So reported New Haven Mayor Toni Harp on WNHH Radio’s “Mayor Monday” program. “We’re much better off than we were last week,” Harp said, thanking the city’s state legislators. “It could have been worse.” She was referring to the news the city received a week earlier that to close a $930 billion gap, state legislators had revised their budget for the upcoming fiscal year in part by canceling $8.1 million of promised municipal aid to New Haven. That threw a lastminute wrench into the Harp administration’s proposed city budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1, which was in the latter stages of alder review, and which had counted on a full $15 million increase in urban aid.

She said most or all city departments will probably have to “take a haircut” on non-personnel expenses. Also, some new positions added in her proposed city budget, such as at the library, may have to go unfilled. She plans to reveal specifics of the modified plan at a Tuesday press conference; Wednesday night the Board of Alders Finance Committee meets to vote on a final version of the city budget. Board of Alders leaders have been waiting on Harp’s administration to take the lead on where to find cost savings to cover the new gap. The biggest remaining unsolved challenge is how to deal with $2.5 million the state is taking away in reimbursements for transporting kids to school. Much of that money goes to bus out-of-district kids to magnet, charter, private, or parochial schools in New Haven. The state mandates that cities provide that transportation; until now the state had covered the cost. The state also plans to cancel $1 billion in approved bonding to address its long-term fiscal problems. Harp said Monday that her understanding is that funding remains safe for New Haven projects like the new Dixwell Q House and a two-way protected cycletrack on the west side of the town. But the city probably won’t proceed with plans to apply for additional state bond money for improvements to the Green, she said.

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President Obama Deserves a “High Five” for his Speech at Howard’s Graduation not be mandated without the concurrence of Congress. In the same way that President Obama has spoke from his heart to Howard University students, he seems to have spoken from his principles to some workers. Kudos.

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA News Wire Columnist I was apprehensive when I learned that President Obama would give the commencement speech at Howard University this year. I feared a repeat of his Morehouse speech, his yammering and scolding of African Americans in a manner so objectionable as to repulse. The Morehouse speech was, charitably speaking, a misstep. Would Howard be a reset? I was reminded that Ivory Toldson, a Howard University professor, leads the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and understood that Dr. Toldson might have had an opportunity to review the President’s speech. I desperately wanted President Obama to knock his speech out of the park. Guess what? He did. He hit all the right notes. He told students to celebrate their Blackness their way. He offered sage, but not scolding advice and seemed nowhere as condescending as he did at Morehouse. I didn’t have the privilege of attending Howard’s commencement, but I had the opportunity to watch the President on television. He rocked. This was one of the moments when I wish I could give him a high five.

clemency for nonviolent drug offenders will expand. While he has embraced the principle of pardons, he has offered fewer than 400 so far, even though more than 9000 may be eligible. The Justice Department says it is “red tape” and “bureaucracy” that hampers the process, but Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe managed to cut through a lot of red tape by restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 felons in his state. Let’s see if President Obama can be as creative as the Virginia governor in issuing a blanket order to pardon nonviolent drug offenders. That would be historic.

Perhaps President Obama’s last year will be his best year. Perhaps the work he is doing on offering

There have been several historic and transformative moments in these last months of the Obama

Presidency. Executive Order 13658 provided a minimum wage of $10.10 for federal contract workers, an important initiative given that federal contractors earn millions of dollars in profits but often pay their lowest-level workers little more than the federal minimum wage of $7.25. When they bid on contracts, the contracts are often awarded based on minimum bid, but minimum bid means minimum wage. Absent an executive order setting a wage floor, the most exploitative employer is the one who gets the contract. Similarly, Executive Order 13706 provides paid sick leave for those who work for federal contractors. Again, these contractors would not provide such leave un-

less they were mandated to do so by executive order. President Obama has pushed the envelope in determining that an employer or contractor has the right to include terms and conditions of work in a contract. A low-bid contract must now include adequate pay, not minimum pay. It is a step forward. A recalcitrant Congress made it impossible for President Obama to change the terms and conditions of work for more workers, but the Executive Orders he issued set a tone for what one could consider an ideal workplace. Workers should have fair wages, sick leave, and other benefits that federal contractors are not likely to offer without incentives. All workers should have these benefits, but they can-

Still, it is challenging for me to be satisfied by actions that come so late in this administration, a speech that comes after President Obama’s team has slashed the money available to HBCUs. The soaring rhetoric of the Howard University commencement speech must be balanced by the gritty reality that too many students are leaving school because they cannot afford to pay tuition, and that even as students were walking across the state during graduation, some fraction of them would not receive diplomas because of their unpaid bills. President Obama recovered from his Morehouse misstep with a Howard reset, but he still has half a year to do more. If he would restore the dollars he took from HBCUs, he would leave a lasting legacy about being comfortable in his Blackness. Julianne Malveaux is an author and economist based in Washington, DC. Her latest book, “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy” is available via www.amazon.com or www.juliannemalveaux.com. Follow her on Twitter @drjlastword.

To Be Equal State of Black America 2016 Locked Out: Education, Jobs and Justice by Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League via George Curry Media “Eschewing political banalities, sloganeering and appeals to fears and suspicions, the candidates should seize the opportunity to challenge the nation to regain her sense of purpose by facing her imperfections, not apologetically, but with the firm resolve that this nation can and should do better.” – National Urban League Executive Director Vernon Jordan, the State of Black America, 1976.

(May 9, 2016) As we observe the 40th anniversary of the State of Black America,® the similarities of the United States of 1976 and the United States of 2016 are profoundly striking. The nation was recovering from the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. According to the report, “Blacks suffered disproportionately because of their low position on the economic ladder as unemployment climbed to depression levels in many of their communities …” These words could just as easily apply to today. The 2016 edition of the State of

Black America® “Locked Out: Education, Jobs and Justice,” will be released on Tuesday, May 17, during a live broadcast from the Newseum. The report National Urban League’s annual analysis of Black and Latino equality in America, and, for the second year it will be available in an all-digital format available at www.stateofblackamerica.org. Visitors will find the e-book, Web Series, select data, videos, articles and other frequently updated features. This year’s report again includes the Equality Index™, in its

11th year for the Black-White Index and its sixth year for the Hispanic-White Index – measuring how well Blacks and Latinos are doing in comparison to their White peers in five categories: economics, education, health, social justice and civic engagement. The report includes a retrospective detailing America’s 40-year progress in economic and social equality and opportunity. As this year’s report focuses on “Education, Jobs and Justice,” it’s valuable to looking back to the state of Black education, jobs and justice in 1976. On education, Jor-

dan wrote, “Not only were black children not being educated by the schools, a fact attested to by declining test scores, but they were also being thrown out of the institutions in disproportionate numbers for alleged infractions.” On jobs: “Despite claims that the recession has bottomed out and the worst is behind us, unemployment is still rampant in the nation and even the most optimistic forecast projects a continuing official unemployment rate of over 7 percent. For blacks, this automatically Con’t on page

National Urban League Report Highlights Black Community Setbacks by Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the AFRO National Urban League launched the 2016 State of Black America – Locked Out: Education, Jobs and Justice report during a live web broadcast at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., May 17. Celebrating the 40-year history of the report from former Executive Director Vernon Jordan, who issued the first report in 1976, key issues in this year’s report include job creation, living wages, voting rights, criminal justice reform, and education.Locked Out2 Hosted by the National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial, the report noted equality gaps between our nation’s richest and poorest citizens and offered thoughtprovoking solutions in the form of essays from leading voices in the academic, corporate, political, and entertainment arenas.

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The report has “always been an important publication, but this year it provides an opportunity to tell the story of what has been accomplished and to determine what must be done,” said Newseum President and CEO, Jeffery Herbst. “We look forward to using our commitment and ability to explain our foundational freedoms to be part of the struggle of inclusivity and equality in the United States.” Concern was raised over apparent setbacks in social and educational gains since the initial 1976 report. For instance, in 1976, schools had been legally desegregated for 22 years, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was 12 years old, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had been in place 11 years, and the economy was one year into economic recovery from the recession that lasted from November 1973 to March 1975. Still, Blacks were nearly twice as likely as Whites to be unemployed; the median Black household had only 59 cents for every dollar of income, and

Blacks were three times more likely to live in poverty than Whites. “If there is one constant in the State of Black America Report it is the importance of spreading opportunities and empowerment. We see the promise of technology to help address many of the disparities detailed in this year’s state of Black America report,” said James Cicconi, AT&T executive vice president of External and Legislative Affairs, who partnered with the NUL to conduct the research. “It will take more than tech to address these issues. We must all lead by example in supporting social justice. In our view social justice is far too important to be a matter for individuals; it must also be an endeavor for corporations.” NUL President Marc Morial said that statistically the gains made in the 1960s had been decimated, and that all gears had been thrown into reverse, effectively moving Black America backwards, but that his organization was poised to offer remedies. “The Urban League is not a think tank, the Urban League is not a talk tank, the Urban League is a ‘do tank,’ and what we need to do is save our cities big and small, north to south, east to west from coast to coast,” Morial said. “We must save our cities. We must develop our economic infrastructure and move people out of poverty – from welfare rolls to payrolls.”

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now that you didn’t have when you drew up the original will, you will want to add them so that there’s no confusion after you die. • Find a good estate planner. This is particularly important if you have a taxable or complex estate. A good estate planner can save you a fortune in estate taxes and help you achieve other estateplanning objectives, including some you might have overlooked. “Find attorneys you can trust,” Presser says. “If you have legal claims against you after death, then an asset-protection attorney should work with your estateplanning attorney so that your heirs get as much of your estate as legally possible – creditorfree.” About Hillel L. Presser, Esq., MBA Hillel L. Presser’s firm, The Presser Law Firm, P.A., represents individuals and businesses in establishing comprehensive asset protection plans. He is a former adjunct faculty member for law at Lynn University and offers complimentary copies of his book “Financial Self-Defense” through www.assetprotectionattorneys.com.

In the wake of Prince’s death, it has been called “the worst estate planning sin a wealthy artist could commit: leaving no will at all.” Rather than providing a clear plan for dividing his assets among loved ones, Prince may have created a situation where there could be decades of legal fights within his family. And, without a will, Prince’s legacy misses out on a huge concern he’d confronted during his career – to be an example, illustrated in a will, of freeing artists from restrictive recording contracts. Why? The reason may never be clear. Perhaps the fact that his toxicology report found large traces of the nce-day-15-update/ 83960432/»painkilling drug Percocet has something to do with it. “Consciously or otherwise, some people simply do not deal well with addressing after-death legacy,” says attorney Hillel Presser of the Presser Law Firm, P.A., which specializes in comprehensive asset protection, which includes wills. “I have no idea whether Prince had some other principle at work, but the lack of a will clearly lays the burden on the living, who are left with an abundance of guesswork.” Presser’s recommendations for those who don’t want to follow in Prince’s footsteps include: • If you don’t have a will, get to work on one. Eighty percent of American adults have something in common with Prince – they have no will. That’s a mistake; even more so if you have a family. Your heirs could end up feuding over your possessions, maybe even taking each other to court. If you have children who are minors, what would become of them if you and your spouse both died? In a will, you could give clear instructions on who you would want to appoint as their guardian. •If you have a will, consider updating it. An old estate plan can be worse than none at all. Maybe you are now divorced. Maybe your financial situation has changed significantly enough that you want to make other plans for what you leave behind. If you have assets

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Prince Neglected A Crucial Part Of His Legacy

A Black Man’s View of “Lemonade” ing them in. Black men are taught to be stoic and proud and those protections may indeed be their downfall until they learn to let others in. Sometimes their defense mechanism instead of sharing with the one you love is trying to maintain the respect of your lover and escaping with another. The end result is destruction, the only variable is degree.

by William Spivey New Haven Independent

“Becoming a strong, faithful black man is about unlearning the messages received since youth regarding measuring your manhood in conquest. It’s about giving yourself permission to turn down a pretty woman because the value fleeting and the cost great. It’s about recognizing that it’s not what you once thought, “it was something you did for yourself and not to your lover” but now knowing it is something you did to your lover. Whether or not you got caught. Growth comes, manhood comes, when you accept the values of friendship, monogamy and mutual respect in place of those you held before. It comes from vulnerability and walking in truth, sharing your pain and weaknesses rather than hiding them and holding them in.”

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I’m supposed to be writing something else today. Perhaps I still will but not before I exorcise myself of the “Lemonade” demons infiltrating my thoughts. Much has been written that Lemonade is of and for black women and white people, particularly white men and presumptively black men should just sit this one out and let black women have their day. I would do that, but for the demons that won’t let me move on. Rightly or wrongly I read many of the reviews of Lemonade, some from total strangers and others from women I know (or at least follow) and respect in an Internet kind of way like Awesomelyluvvie

and Ijeoma Oluo along with a Very Smart Brotha Damon Young. So I viewed Lemonade with an expectation of what I’d find and for the first twenty minutes or so I was impressed with the visuals, understanding of the message and trying to see the many things that a black woman might identify with. I didn’t expect to feel all the things I felt as a black man and father, imperfect at both. I won’t even attempt to describe what Lemonade means to black women. Perhaps I shouldn’t attempt to describe it as a black man, but the demons… Some of my “black man view” is generational. I’m four years younger than Matthew Knowles who I played with on the same college basketball team for a year at

Fisk University. The Matthew in the video playing with young daughter Beyoncé is the one I know rather than the music mogul he became. I’m 14 years older than Jay-Z who has faced different pressures than I because of his wealth and fame. That which faces black men in their teens, twenties and thirties may vary but there will be commonalities that we all have to deal with. Side chicks have always existed. One difference is that today it seems more acceptable for side chicks to operate openly instead of behind the scenes, sometimes glorified in urban literature. I’m not absolving black men. Sometimes the attention you get is in direct ratio to the signals you’re sending.

Becoming a strong, faithful black man is about unlearning the messages received since youth regarding measuring your manhood in conquest. It’s about giving yourself permission to turn down a pretty woman because the value fleeting and the cost great. It’s about recognizing that it’s not what you once thought, “it was something you did for yourself and not to your lover” but now knowing it is something you did to your lover. Whether or not you got caught. Growth comes, manhood comes, when you accept the values of friendship, monogamy and mutual respect in place of those you held before. It comes from vulnerability and walking in truth, sharing your pain and weaknesses rather than hiding them and hold-

Lemonade also spoke on fatherhood. There is no greater feeling than being perfect in the eyes of your little girl (or son). Perhaps no greater loss when she discovers your flaws and failings and your fear she’ll never see you the same way again. If lucky, you’ll find that the love was strong enough that it will even exceed what existed before. I pray for Matthew and Beyoncé, perhaps because I recognize it could have been me. Lemonade is powerful. Both poetry and pain. It’s universal and individual and will require further watching and listening to peel back the layers. Maybe one day I’ll watch it and merely be entertained. The demons are quieted, for now, perhaps gone. Besides all the messages for black women which I may never be qualified to describe. There are those for black men also, deserving discussion as well. William Spivey is an author and writer of social and political commentary. He blogs at enigmainblack.wordpress.com He lives in Orlando Florida.

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MALCOLM X, FROM THE SIDE VIEW On Malcolm’s 91st Birthday (Thursday, May 19th), Recent Books Present New Vantage Points of the Human Rights Leader “the creation of its subject’s life, not a factual recounting of it. That can be said of all autobiographies.”

byTodd Steven Burroughs Special to the AFRO Fifty-one years after his assassination and the publication of his autobiography, Malcolm X—who would have been 91 this week— has now earned his place in mid20th century history, alongside Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro and other radical luminaries.

“Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X” by Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith (Basic Books). The authors back up with documentation their controversial portrayals of both men. Ali is seen as, ultimately, a coward and “puppet in the assassination plot” against Malcolm, and Malcolm detailed as a desperate manipulator of his friend and even a liar. In other words, both men are shown as human beings, warts and all. The authors of this historical depiction of the friendship between the two Nation of Islam followers between 1960 and 1965 provide a gripping narrative that expands the understanding of both men by analyzing their individual and collective lives, one week at a time. Roberts and Smith do a good job in taking both Black American icons down off their pedestals, examining them thoroughly, albeit briefly, and finding them wonderful and wanting.

Most see Malcolm X, also known as El-Hajj Malik ElShabazz, from his “front view”— from “The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as Told to Alex Haley,” the many speeches by him and documentary films on him found on YouTube, and from the biographies on Malcolm X published since the autobiography by, respectively, Peter Goldman, Bruce Perry and Manning Marable, the latter two authors presenting very controversial takes on the human rights leader. But since the divisive and debated Marable biography, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” was published in 2011, more books containing different sides of Malcolm have been published. Reading these new works, thankfully, provide new insights and emphases that move past the biographers.

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They include: “The Diary of Malcolm X: ElHajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964” by journalist/historian Herb Boyd and Malcolm X daughter Illyasah Shabazz (Third World Press). This 2013 Black-publisher book, now for the most part only available on Kindle, is an annotated collection of Malcolm’s travel-journal thoughts as he traveled to Saudi Arabia and later several African nations. This book proves that Malcolm was not, as stereotyped, some loudmouth in Harlem who never actually did anything; he was Black America’s unofficial ambassador to the African world, trying to unify newly independent Black and Arab nations against the West. “Alex Haley: And The Books

That Changed A Nation” by Robert J. Norrell (St. Martin’s Press). This new book discusses in detail how Haley and Malcolm X worked together on the autobiography, and how Haley viewed Malcolm and what both men were doing. This first biography of Haley attempts to save the freelance writer’s posthumous reputation from his many distractors—including Marable, who portrayed Haley as a moneyhungry opportunist, indifferent to Malcolm. Norrell points out that the Malcolm autobiography was

Regardless of the viewpoint, Malcolm-ology isn’t going anywhere. That’s a good thing, because Black America deserves a full, comprehensive, well-researched Malcolm biography (something that, unfortunately, still hasn’t happened yet), and all the stories and events in which Malcolm was at least peripherally involved. The more information Black America has on its champions, the more discussions it can have within itself on the proper standards of Black leadership. Todd Steven Burroughs, an independent researcher and writer based in Newark, N.J., is the author of Son-Shine on Cracked Sidewalks, an audiobook on Amiri Baraka and Ras Baraka through the eyes of the 2014 Newark mayoral campaign. He is the co-editor, along with Jared Ball, of A Lie of Reinvention: Correcting Manning Marable’s Malcolm X and the co-author, with Boyd, of Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today.

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Google Halts Predatory Payday Loan Ads by Zenitha Prince Senior AFRO Correspondent Civil and consumer rights activists are praising Google’s announcement this week that it is banning payday loan ads from its popular search engine. “When ads are good, they connect people to interesting, useful brands, businesses and products. Unfortunately, not all ads are— some are for fake or harmful products, or seek to mislead users about the businesses they represent,” David Graff, Google’s director of Global Product Policy wrote in a May 11 statement. “We have an extensive set of policies to keep bad ads out of our systems…Ads for financial services are a particular area of vigilance given how core they are to people’s livelihood and well-being.” Effective July 13, Google will ban ads for loans requiring repayment within 60 days of the date of issue. It will also ban ads in the U.S. for loans with an APR of 36 percent or higher. “When reviewing our policies,

research has shown that these loans can result in unaffordable payment and high default rates for users so we will be updating our policies globally to reflect that,” Graff added. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (DCalif.), ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee and a longtime advocate against payday loans, hailed Google’s decision. “I applaud Google’s integrity and courage,” she said in a statement. “Predatory lending practices that take advantage of consumers

aren’t just bad for the advertising business, but for everyone’s business.” Google’s announcement comes as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is working on rules to protect consumers from abusive practices, the congresswoman added. Like Google, the Bureau “found that online payday lenders have been using internet advertising to circumvent state consumer protection laws, assess egregiously high loan fees, and charge interest rates of more than 1,000 percent APR.”

Advocates have long decried the lending practices of payday lenders, citing the devastating and disproportionate impact on low-income, often minority communities. In December 2013, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 national civil and human rights groups, voted unanimously in favor of a resolution urging states, Congress and federal agencies to increase regulatory oversight and enforcement of payday lenders. “This new policy addresses

many of the longstanding concerns shared by the entire civil rights community about predatory payday lending,” Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference, said in a statement. “Low-income people and people of color have long been targeted by slick advertising and aggressive marketing campaigns to trap consumers into outrageously high interest loans. This ban puts payday loans in their rightful place alongside explosives and tobacco as dangerous products that deserve the highest level of scrutiny from regulators and businesses alike.” Added Keith Corbett, executive vice president of the Center for Responsible Lending, “As a leading search engine and innovator, Google’s announced updated policy on financial services advertising is a major consumer coup. By removing ads that lure financially challenged consumers into long-term and costly debt traps, Google is displaying what corporate citizenship looks like. Our hope is that others will soon follow suit.”

Donald Trump and the Spectacle of Lying raising the federal minimum wage. Until this month, when he said he favors raising the federal minimum wage. Which declaration was the lie? by Lee A. Daniels George Curry Media Columnist

During his march to the Republican Party nomination, Donald Trump has repeatedly demanded that for the time being all Muslims should be barred from entering the U.S., making it a cornerstone of his campaign. Then, last week, he declared that idea was “just a suggestion.” Which statement was the lie? Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump displayed a firm allegiance to the Republican orthodoxy against

In the midst of the primary campaign, Trump promised to follow political tradition and release his tax returns as the other candidates have done since the early 1970s. Last week, he said he wouldn’t do so before the November election because a federal audit of his taxes wouldn’t be finished that soon. Besides, Trump added, “there’s nothing to learn from them,” and he further said he didn’t think voters were really interested in examining the documents. Which of those statements is a lie? Get the picture? Those looking to pin down what Donald Trump actually believes about the issues facing the American nation – and

coherent prescriptions for bettering American society are missing the point. The Republican presidential nominee has only one standard: Lie continually. Lie about anything. Lie about everything. Earlier this month, the “Fact Checker” columnist of the Washington Post noted that 26 separate times thus far during his campaign the column has given Trump “Four Pinocchios” for statements he’s made – meaning that Trump was brazenly lying when he made them. That number represented 70 percent of the times the Fact Checker column reviewed Trump claims. The article said that “most politicians will drop a talking point if it gets labeled with ‘Four Pinocchios’ by the Fact Checker or ‘Pants on Fire’ by PolitiFact (another widely-respected journalistic fact-

checking operation). No one wants to be tagged a liar or misinformed, and we’ve found most politicians are interested in getting the facts straight ….” “But,” the passage continues, “… Trump makes Four-Pinocchio statements over and over again, even though fact checkers have demonstrated them to be false. He appears to care little about the facts; his staff does not even bother to respond to fact-checking inquiries.” In fact, Trump’s lies on the campaign trail have been so numerous that in December Politifact gave his entire campaign its annual Lie of the Year designation – because “it was hard to single one (lie) out from the others. So we have rolled them into one big trophy.” True, Trump’s propensity for lying likely stems from his own overweening insecurity and vanity.

But, of course, there are broader forces at work in his defeating the now-laughable “deep bench” of Republican current and former officeholders the GOP once boasted of. Political scholar Norman Ornstein of the conservative American Enterprise Institute told Politifact that among them are the public’s desensitization to inflammatory rhetoric, the rightwing’s assault on science and expertise, and the increasing influence of partisan media in American society during the last three decades. Those negative forces have intensified during the last eight years, as the conservative movement encouraged a politicized race war against President Obama. “Trump came into an environment that was ripe for bombastic, inflammatory, outrageous statements without having to suffer the Con’t on page 27

West Point Correct Not to Punish Fist-Raising Black Women by Kim M. Keenan, George Curry Media Guest Columnist

performance during the Super Bowl this year, her usual spectacular performance was tinged with a bit of controversy.

I remember the first time I saw a Black raised fist. I was watching the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City and two Black athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, raised their black-gloved fists and bowed their heads on the medal ceremony stand during the playing of the “The Star Spangled Banner.” I was too young to know what it meant, but I was old enough to recognize the inherent personal power in their gesture.

At West Point, these young women are poised to lead us into a future where military leaders look like Black women and experience life as Black women, and where they are being vilified for a harmless photograph. This is not a photograph where they are scantily clad or displaying signs, flags, or symbols of disrespect to anyone. Each woman simply has her arms raised culminating in a fist. One wonders how West Point could even consider such an action a threat.

Smith and Carlos, who were later inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame, angered many Whites back home; they were vilified and were subjected to death threats. In an HBO documentary years later, Smith said: “We were just human beings who saw a need to bring attention to the inequality in our country. I don’t like the idea of people looking at it as negative. There was nothing but a raised fist in the air and a bowed head, acknowledging the American flag – not symbolizing a hatred for it.” Nearly a half of a century later, 16 Black female West Point cadets, posed in their traditional gray dress military uniforms, just weeks before their graduation. In the group photo, each raised a clenched

fist, touching off another firestorm in the U.S. Officials of the United States Military Academy in Annapolis, Md. opened an investigation on April 28 into whether the women violated Army rules that prohibit political activities while in uniform. The firestorm that they ignited only highlights what it means to be a Black woman in an America that has no collective consciousness of what that means on a daily basis. When Beyoncé and her dancers included a raised fist in her “Formation”

A more tangible threat is the paucity of African Americans at the military academy. West Point is 70 percent White, most of them males. The 16 cadets in the photo represent all but one of the Black women graduating on May 21 in a class of 1,000 – 1.7 percent. Some critics charged that the women were participating in a Black Power gesture or aligning themselves with the Black Lives Matter. However, Mary Tobin, a 2003 graduate of West Point and an Iraq veteran who is a mentor to some of the seniors, told the New York Times: “These ladies weren’t raising their fist to say Black Panthers. They were raising it to say Beyoncé. For them it’s not a

sign of allegiance to a movement, it’s a sign that means unity and pride and sisterhood. That fist to them meant you and your sisters did what only a few people, male or female, have ever done in this country.”

cadets described themselves as “the last class with balls,” according to the New York Times. Some seniors posed for a photo holding basketballs, footballs and baseballs yet were never threatened with punishment.

Even Black males who predated them at West Point were ostracized. Henry O. Flipper, who became the first Black graduate from West Point in 1877, endured four years in Annapolis without a fellow cadet ever speaking to him.

A voice keeps bubbling up in me and it just keeps saying, “I know how these Black women feel.” I know the feeling of climbing a mountain with everyone looking, watching, and perhaps waiting for me to fall. There is the feeling of having someone moving barriers in front of my path or misunderstanding that I want the same things that they want on the same terms.

A half-century later, nothing had changed. As Associated Press story noted, “Benjamin O. Davis Jr. entered West Point in 1932 as its only black cadet and spent the next four years shunned. He roomed alone, and no one befriended him. The future Tuskegee Airman and trailblazing Air Force general later said he was ‘an invisible man.’” Are we really saying that the unspeakable slights and insults that Cadets Flipper and Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. endured are still the standard for the treatment of Black cadets at West Point? Or worse, perhaps the message to these young women is that they should endure and remain quiet, rather than express their feelings in this bastion of White maleness.

West Point’s decision not to punish the women was the correct one. Their biggest sin was sharing their personal triumph over the Internet against the background of a military that until recently refused to allow them to serve in the same positions as men. Kim M. Keenan is the President and CEO of the Multicultural Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC). Prior to taking the helm at MMTC, Keenan served as General Counsel and Secretary of the NAACP. She is a past president of the National Bar Association and the District of Columbia Bar.

In fact, in 1976, the year before women were first admitted, male

Learn How to Recognize Your Enemies “The LORD is my light and my salvation– whom shall I fear?”

By Jeffrey Boney, Houston Forward Times I have come a long way and have been through quite a bit on my journey here on Earth and if there’s one thing about life that I’ve figured out, it’s that at some point in your life you’ll have to face some form of personal opposition, and you can’t be afraid when its come your way. In the Bible, Psalms 27:1 reads,

Many times we live our lives based off of fear and what others will or can do to us. We have to abandon that mode of thinking and replace any of those fears with confidence and boldness. See, there are times when you can easily identify the people who oppose you, and sometimes you can’t. Rest assured, however, in everything you do, you’ll have opposition. You have to not only look for them, but you also need to be prepared for them whenever they decide to come at you.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been lied on, taken advantage of, cheated out of things, had things stolen from me, and overlooked by members of the opposing team who did not have my best interest at heart. It didn’t matter how loyal I was to them, or how much I contributed to their success in life, there have been people that have come into my life who have done any and everything in their power to try and hurt, harm and even destroy me for their own selfish reasons. I’ve encountered three types of people in my life that have shown me some level of opposition. I will

call them “Team Opposition” and they have lots of members. The first members of Team Opposition are your competitors. The one thing you need to know about your competitors, is that they really don’t harbor any illfeelings in their heart, nor do they have anything against you personally. These team members may or may not be close personal friends, but what made them your competitor is that you’re both pursuing one or more of the same goals and primarily want the same thing. A competitor wants to win and wants to beat you. A great example of what a

competitor looks like, in order to help you understand, would be in the area of sports. There are so many examples to choose from, such as the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox; or Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier; or the Democrats versus the Republicans; or being a proud alumnus of Jack Yates High School, we have always had Phillis Wheatley High School as one of our fiercest competitors. In everything we did, we wanted to beat our competitor, claim bragging rights and bring home Con’t on page 26

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means an official unemployment rate of 14 percent.” Jordan added, “To assume that the nation can live with so many people unable to find jobs and forming a permanent cadre of the helpless and hapless, is dangerous.

Learn How to Recognize Your Enemies Donald Trump and the championship. It never ceases. A competitor is going to do everything in their power to compete against you on every level and try to beat you every time if they can. At the end of the day, however, a competitor understands that it’s just a competition and wants to simply be the best at what they do. A competitor always understands that, whether they win or lose, it’s strictly business. It’s never personal.

And on justice: “While blacks are over-represented as crime victims, they are underrepresented in the criminal justice system. The city of Chicago is an example with a population that is 32.7 percent black, it has a police force that is only 16 percent black. A survey by the Race Relations Information Now, a competitor is different Center revealed that in 42 states than the next member of Team out of a total of 41,984 state poOpposition – your adversary. lice personnel, only 616 or 1.5 percent are black.” You have run across this person regularly, in that your adversary is At the launch of the State of the person who never agrees with Black America® 2016, “Locked anything you say, or goes against Out: Education, Jobs and Justice,” everything you stand for. It matters we heard from Vernon Jordan himnot what you say; matters not what self. Some of the nation’s leading you do; and matters not what you thought-leaders, analysts and acbelieve. Your adversary wants to tivists are featured in our Web Seargue you down, prove you wrong, ries such as David Johns, Jonathan and in most cases, challenge your Capehart, Mo Ivory and Sam every thought and action. If you White. The report itself includes say the sky is blue, they’ll say the essays from notables such as joursky is green. If you say one nalist and author Joy-Ann Reid, Congresswoman Robin L. Kelly, restaurant has the best food, they’ll U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand say it is another restaurant instead. and Sundial Brands founder and If you say the weather is hot, they’ll say it’s cold. If you say you CEO Richelieu Dennis. like a particular song, they’ll rip Please stay in touch on the song apart and give you the www.stateofblackamerca.org for reasons why the song sucks. our ongoing conversation.

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Your opponent is always going to confront you and be adversarial about nearly every single thing you engage in for as long as you are in their proximity. Your adversary will go out of their way to get people on their side, so as to prove a point or get their message across. Your adversary is mostly driven by jealousy, envy or anger, because the majority of them are either insecure or have experienced some significant disappointments in their life that have contributed to their emotional instability. Your adversary has made up in their minds that they either want to be you or that they want what you have. Lastly, I want to address the member of Team Opposition who is the most dangerous of all of the three members – your enemy. Listen, your enemy isn’t concerned about beating you at all. Your enemy has one primary goal in mind and that is to utterly destroy you and annihilate everything you stand for. See, your enemy knows that if they beat you, you have a chance to bounce back and recover and come back on the scene for round two of the fight. Your enemy doesn’t want you to be their competitor and they don’t want you to be their adversary. Your enemy wants to take you out

by any means necessary. Most of your enemies have been plotting and planning for some time to lay a trap for you in order to take you out, but you may have been to blind to see it because these members of Team Opposition are sometimes the hardest to identify until the very moment they strike like a venomous snake against you.

In the Bible, the Pharisees, Sadducees and chief priests had one agenda; they wanted to kill Jesus Christ. These religious hypocrites didn’t want to do anything else but kill the one man they despised. These members of Team Opposition constantly plotted and looked for ways to kill Jesus, and didn’t stop until they got exactly what they wanted – his crucifixion. Sadly, it was one of the twelve disciples, Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus and sold him out for only thirty pieces of silver. Your enemy will use anyone, even those closest to you, to hurt and destroy you. In the 1984 movie “The Terminator,” Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cyborg assassin who was programmed and sent back in time to do one thing: “kill Sarah Connor.” That was his mission and that is the mission of your enemy. Your enemy is reckless and will say and do anything to ruin your character, destroy your name and take what you have. They have allowed themselves to be programmed with evil intent and they are committed to fulfilling their mission at all costs. All of us have to be wise and vigilant so as to know what members of Team Opposition we are dealing with and to put each of them in their proper place in our mental rolodex for the future. Jeffrey L. Boney serves as Associate Editor and is an awardwinning journalist for the Houston Forward Times newspaper. Jeffrey is a frequent contributor on the Nancy Grace Show and has a daily radio talk show called Real Talk with Jeffrey L. Boney. If you would like to request Jeffrey as a speaker, you can reach him at jboney1@forwardtimes.com

consequences,” Ornstein said.

There’s plenty of evidence that Trump’s supporters are not bothered but thrilled by his inconsistent and incoherent policy positions, and his outright lies. On the one hand, they regard his outwitting the media and both parties as their revenge against the “elite.” And they cheer his winby-any-means-necessary attitude because they, like him, want to dominate everyone else and they don’t care how they get to do that. Trump has shown the world how willing a segment of White conservatives is to shed all the “values” they’ve been pretending they exalt if it’ll restore the one thing they hold most dear: White conservative rule. That’s why more and more overt White racist groups and individuals have openly endorsed Trump (endorsements that he – “wink-wink” — disavows). There hasn’t been such a prominent, openly racist candidate running for president since Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace in 1968 and1972. That reference is important for two reasons. One is because Trump is using the same strategy – bigotry and the Big Lie – that enabled legalized racism to operate so brazenly in the South and less so in the North for nearly a century after the Civil War. The second is that, ironically, Trump’s supporters are so blinded by their bigotry they can’t see they’re being suckered by Trump, the “elite” demagogue, in the same way the Southern segregationist politicians of old fooled that region’s white populace about the racial realities of America’s future – and the nowhated GOP establishment fooled White conservatives these last eight years by promising to defeat President Obama. Which brings to mind a bit of old folk wisdom: You can fool some of the people all of the time. Lee A. Daniels, a former reporter for The Washington Post and the New York Times, is also a former editor of The National Urban League’s The State of Black America. He is a keynote speaker and author whose books include Last Chance: The Political Threat to Black America. He is writing a book on the Obama years and the 2016 election. He can be reached at leedanielsjournalist@gmail.com

El Departamento de Vivienda de la Ciudad de New Haven (HANH)

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Estará aceptando solicitudes

ADA/UFAS ACCESSIBLE HOUSING WAITING LIST

Para nuestro Programa de Vivienda Pública comenzando Hasta nuevo aviso Esto SOLO será para las siguientes listas

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Uniform Federal Accessibility Standard (UFAS) Apartments available in the following bedroom sizes: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in • All LIPH Developments • New housing development which will contain 2, 3 and 4 bedroom units for families in need of accessible units. This will be only for a person or family with a disability who needs an apartment with the features below:

LISTA DE ESPERA DE VIVIENDA ACCESSIBLE ADA/UFAS Acto de Americanos con Incapacidades (ADA) Estandarte Uniforme de Accesibilidad Federal (UFAS) Apartamentos disponibles en los siguientes tamaños de dormitorios: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 y 5 Todos Los Desarrollos Desarrollo de nuevas viviendas que contendrá

• Barrier-free unit (wheelchair accessible) • Bathroom and bedroom on 1st floor • Unit adapted for vision impairments • Counter spaces in kitchen /bathroom lowered • Unit adapted for hearing impairments

las unidades 2, 3 y 4 dormitorios para las familias necesitadas de unidades accesibles. Esto solo será para individuos o familias con incapacidades que necesite un apartamento con las siguientes características:

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Unidad Libre de barreras (accesible para silla de ruedas) Baño y dormitorio en el 1er nivel

• Live-in-Aide

Unidad adaptada para incapacidad visual

• Ramp/Elevator in Building

Mostrador de cocina/baño mas bajos

• Parking space close to unit

Unidad adaptada para incapacidad auditiva

This Waiting List will remain open until further notice

Ayuda en domicilio

Low Income Public Housing Program (LIPH) is

Rampa/Elevador en edificio

Federally assisted housing for low income individuals or families.

Estacionamiento cerca de la unidad

Residents pay approximately 30% of the total household income for rent. The income guidelines (maximum income) for a family are as follows:

El Programa de Vivienda Pública (LIPH) es Vivienda asistida para familias e individuos de ingreso bajo.

1 member $46,000

5 members $71,000

2 members $52,600

6 members $76,250

3 members $59,150

7 members $81,500

4 members $65,700

8 members $86,750

El límite de ingreso (ingreso máximo) para una familia son las siguientes:

Occupancy Guidelines

1 miembro 2 miembros 3 miembros 4 miembros

1BR

2BR

3BR

4BR

5BR

5 miembros 6 miembros 7 miembros 8 miembros

$71,000 $76,250 $81,500 $86,750

Pautas de Ocupación

Number of Bedrooms Min Persons/Unit Max Persons/Unit 0BR 1

$46,000 $52,600 $59,150 $65,700

Numero de Dormitorios Max Personas/Unidad 0DORM 1DORM 2DORM 3DORM

1 1 2 3

4DORM 5DORM

4 5

Min Personas/Unidad 1 2 4 6 8 10

¡Vivienda Accesible! Pague aproximadamente 30% del ingreso total de su hogar en alquiler.

Applications will be available Monday - Friday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Applications will be mailed upon request. Applications MUST be mailed to or dropped off to the same location. All applications received will receive a date and time stamp. Waiting list position numbers will be assigned in the order of date and time received. *Applicants must meet HANH resident selection criteria To be eligible for housing assistance

Solicitudes DEBERAN ser enviadas por correo o dejadas en la misma dirección. Toda solicitud recibida recibirá un sello con fecha y hora. Posiciones de Lista de Espera serán asignadas en orden de fecha y hora en que fue recibida. *Solicitantes deberán cumplir con los criterios de selección de resientes de HANH Para ser elegible para asistencia de vivienda Cualquier persona que necesita un ajuste razonable para participar en la audiencia puede llamar al Coordinador Razonable el alojamiento en 203-498-8800 ext. 1507 o al número TDD, 203-497-8434 203-498-8800, ext. 1507. El numero TDD es 203-497-8434.

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Any individual requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hearing may call the Reasonable Accommodation Coordinator at 203-498-8800 extension 1507 or at the TDD Number, 203-497-8434. Equal Opportunity Housing Provider

Solicitudes serán disponibles Lunes – Viernes 9:00 am – 5:00 pm 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Las solicitudes serán enviadas por correo según su petición.

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The Housing Authority of the City of Waterbury is accepting proposals for Chief Financial Officer Consulting Services. The pre-proposal conference will be on Monday, May 02 at 2:00 pm at the 2 Lakewood Road office in Waterbury. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, May 10 at 3:00 pm. To obtain the required documents pertaining to RFP S-CFO04012016 please contact Gina Worth, Purchasing Coordinator, at (203) 596-2096 or email at gina.biello@waterburyha.org .

NOTICE OF LEGAL SERVICE NORWALK HOUSING AUTHORITY The Norwalk Housing Authority is seeking Legal Services. Proposals are to be submitted no later than 4:00 p. m. on May 4, 2016 at Norwalk Housing Authority, 24 _ Monroe Street, Norwalk CT. Copies of the RFP Legal Services are available on our website, www.norwalkha.org under the Business tab, RFP/RFQ. Please use the following contact information for any additional inquiries; TTD/TYY 800-545-1833 x437, or the Office of Thomas F. Hickey, Director of Finance at 203-838-8471 x133. Norwalk Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Curtis O. Law, Executive Director

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Pre-application for waiting list at Orchard Hill Estates II State Elderly complex will be accepted until June 30, 2016. To qualify, you must be at least 62 or disabled with a maximum gross income of $46,000 (one person) or $52,600 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application on line at coventryct.org, or at 1630 Main St., Coventry, CT 06238 or have one mailed by calling 860-742-5518.

Town of Bloomfield Finance Director $87,871-$135,632 For details and how to apply, go to www.bloomfieldct.org. Pre-employment drug testing. AA/EOE

Pre-applications for waiting list at Orchard Hill Estates I HUD complex will be accepted until June 30, 2016. To qualify you must be at least 62 or disabled with a maximum gross income of $18,800 (one person) or $21,450 (two people). Interested parties may pick up an application on line at coventryct.org, or at 1630 Main St., Coventry, CT 06238 or have one mailed by calling 860-742-5518.

The Deep River Housing Authority will open its waiting list for Senior/ Disabled Housing on June 1st. This list will remain open until July 31, 2016. To request an application please call 860-526-5119 applications will be accepted by mail (must be postmarked by 7/31/16) Housing is available to anyone over 62 or handicapped/disabled that meet the income guidelines. Monthly rate is based on income with a minimum base rent requirement of $495. Deep River Housing Authority

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The Glendower Group, Inc an affiliate of Housing Authority City of New Haven d/b/a Elm city Communities is currently seeking Proposals for Tax Compliance Consultant Services. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, May 23, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

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Help Wanted. Immediate opening for construction laborer. Please call PJF Construction Corp. @(860)232-9251. We are an equal opportunity employer. M/F Elm City Communities Invitation for Bids 76 Day Street Townhouse Renovation Elm City Communities also known as The Housing Authority City of New Haven is currently seeking Bids for 76 Day Street Townhouse Renovation. Bids will be received until Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 3:00 PM. A complete copy of the requirement may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https:// newhavenhousing.cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Monday, April 25, 2016 @ 3:00 PM.

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Millennium Construction Services, LLC INVITATION TO BID Sayebrook Village South, Old Saybrook, CT Millennium Construction Services, LLC www.millennium-realty.com Phone: 860-529-1111 Fax: 860-529-5555 Email: bwhitaker@millennium-realty.com General Contractors are invited to bid on the new construction project known as Sayebrook Village South in Old Saybrook CT. The development consists of 17 individual new construction apartments of elderly affordable housing in four (4) buildings located on a 1.0 acre parcel on Sheffield Street in Old Saybrook CT.

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Funding for the project is supplied by Essex Savings Bank and the Department of Housing. Performance and Payment Bonds are required for the full contract price. This project is NOT prevailing wage. Bids are due May 20, 2016 at 4pm. Bid form is included in the project specifications. A complete set of plans and specifications are immediately available for review at http://www.wilesarch.com/#!contact/c1et The Owner reserve the rights; to accept any, all, or any part of any bids; to reject any, all or any part of any bids; to waive any nonmaterial deficiencies in bid responses; and to award the bid that in its judgment will be in the best interests of the Owner. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, SECTION 3 BUSINESSES AND WBE AND SBE/MINORITY BUSINESSES ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE. CONTRACTS AWARDED UNDER THIS SOLICITATION ARE SUBJECT TO STATE SET-ASIDE AND CONTRACT COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS.

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Common Ground is seeking an energetic, organized Schoolyards Program Manager to manage both the School Garden Resource Center and the Schoolyard Habitat Programs in New Haven. These programs partner with New Haven Public Schools to foster and support the development of vibrant outdoor learning spaces by providing information, expertise, guidance, professional development, training, communitybuilding, and garden maintenance support to schools so that schoolyards are used effectively as an extension of the classroom and a community resource. We encourage applicants with connections to New Haven schools and neighborhoods and who have experience managing programs, working with children, gardening and community organizing. For a full job description, please visit http://commongroundct.org/ 2016/05/schoolyards-program-manager/. To apply send a resume and cover letter to schoolgardens@commongroundct.org. Listing: Senior Accountant. Immediate opening in a fast-paced petroleum environment for a degreed accountant w/ 2+ year’s public accounting experience. Duties include data transmission, tax prep, assistance w/monthly closing, account analysis/reconciliation, assistance managing network and system projects. Strong Excel and analytical skills a must. Great growth potential! Benefit package. Candidate must possess a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. Petroleum industry and propane experience a plus. Send resume to: Human Resource Dept. P O Box 388, Guilford CT 06437.

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CT Junior Republic Human Service Positions CLINICAL COORDINATOR (Danbury, Meriden, Waterbury) (3) FT Positions Available – Conducts client assessment and supervises intake process, develops service plans, provides clinical supervision, provides crisis intervention, prepares reports and cofacilitates service team meetings. Master’s degree and 3 yrs exp in screening, assessment and treatment planning. LCSW, LMFT, or LPC license required. EDUCATIONAL ADVOCATE (Danbury) FT - Reviews the educational history of clients, advocates for clients and coordinates services with school districts and provides academic testing and tutoring. Master’s with 2 yrs exp or Bachelor’s with 3 yrs exp. THERAPIST (New Britain) FT – Provides evaluations and individualized treatment plans, both clinic-based and community/ home-based treatment services utilizing the A-CRA and ACC models of care to youth and families. Master’s Degree and will be CT licensed or license eligible, bilingual (English/Spanish). CJR offers a competitive salary and benefits package – EOE For full position descriptions go to: www.ctjuniorrepublic.org Send cover letter and resume to hr@cjryouth.org

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN MOVING TO WORK 2017 ANNUAL PLAN

INNER-CITY NEWS May 23, 2016 - MAY 29, 2016

Section VB of the Authority’s Moving to Work Agreement (the “Agreement”) requires that before the Agency can file its Approved Annual Moving to Work Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (the “HUD”) that it must conduct a public hearing, consider comments from the hearing on the proposed amendments, obtain approval from the Board of Commissioners, and submit the amendments to HUD. Pursuant to said Section VI B, the Authority will conduct a public hearing on May 31, 2016 at 4:00 PM, in the 3rd floor Board of Commissioners Conference Room at 360 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06511 to receive comments and recommendations. A copy of the Plan will be available for review starting May 2, 2016 on the Authority’s website at www.elmcitycommunities.com or can be picked up at the front desk in the main lobby area at 360 Orange Street. You are invited to provide written comments addressed to HANH MTW 2015 Plan, Attn: Maza Rey, P.O. Box 1912, New Haven, CT 06509-1912. Any individuals requiring a reasonable accommodation to participate in the hearing may call Teena Bordeaux, Reasonable Accommodations Coordinator for HANH at 498-8800 extension 1507 or at the TDD Number 497-8434.

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