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Hartford – New Haven Mayor Toni N. Harp joined state Comptroller
Kevin Lembo today to offer joint testimony on a legislative proposal –
An Act Concerning Gigabit Internet Access – that would support the
development of ultra-high-speed gigabit Internet service statewide.
New Haven is in front of a statewide coalition of both state and
municipal leaders to deploy gigabit broadband service for everyone in
Connecticut, including underserved areas. More than 100 Connecticut
cities and towns have expressed interest in bringing technology to their
communities and joining the growing economic development movement.
Collaborators include State Sen. Beth Bye, D-West Hartford, Consumer
Counsel Elin Swanson Katz, West Hartford Deputy Mayor Shari Cantor and
Stamford Mayor David Martin.
Mayor Harp and Comptroller Lembo testified together today on the
gigabit legislation, which could have very significant economic
development and consumer benefits.
“Today the transmission of data is what’s needed to form the
bedrock of an information age economy,” New Haven Mayor Toni N. Harp
said. “New Haven needs one gigabit capacity to transport the medical
data, financial transactions, and research information that are the
currency of New Haven in 2015. Today, our entire state needs this
dramatic infrastructure upgrade to accommodate a deluge of digital
information.”
“This legislation has the potential to energize and expand
Connecticut’s economy in a way that will have lasting effects for
decades,” Lembo said. “Gigabit broadband service would rapidly
deliver information – serving as a superhighway for researchers,
schools, businesses large and small and every household. It would be the
ultimate economic assistance incentive program because it would reward
all business and industries, new ones and those already established
here, with a superior infrastructure and an open door.”
A gigabit broadband network is capable of 1,000 megabit-per-second
(Mbps) upload and download speeds. The current average home speed in
Connecticut is only 9 Mbps download and even slower upload.
“This initiative is about much more than movie and music
downloads,” Lembo said. “In fact, it’s hardly about entertainment
at all. It’s about economic development and innovation.”
Connecticut companies both large and small face significant challenges
transacting daily business with global clients due to the costs and
limitations of the state’s existing Internet technology capability.
“Some of Connecticut's businesses are experiencing impediments to
their day-to-day work because of the lack of this technology in the
state,” Lembo said. “Gigabit broadband service will provide a strong
economic development incentive to business and bring more competition to
the broadband market, reducing costs and improving service for all
businesses and households that are suffering from high broadband, cable
and phone bills.”
Lembo and Harp said gigabit development in towns and cities across the
country are spurring new start-up communities and attracting new
corporate residents. They pointed to the success of gigabit networks in
areas like Kansas City, MO; Austin, TX; and Chattanooga, TN.
“Not only are new and existing entrepreneurs able to plug into a
reliable and worthwhile network, but consumers and businesses alike are
able to reap more competitive pricing for broadband service,” Lembo
said. “In gigabit municipalities, customers are seeing improved
customer service and reduced costs for higher-speed broadband service
– in some cases going from several thousand dollars a month to
roughly $70/a month. For residential consumers of cable, phone and
Internet services the costs for bundled services have been reduced
significantly.
“The state needs to start thinking about high-speed internet the way
it thinks about rails and roads. But fortunately, unlike roads that
have to be maintained every three or four years, this infrastructure
will long outlive any financing. As a small state with high population
density we have a real opportunity to leapfrog other states by having
access to gigabit broadband service statewide. Gigabit broadband
networks are coming. Connecticut can get on board or be left
behind.”
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The NBA is the premier professional basketball league in the United States and Canada. The league is truly global, with games and programming in 215 countries and territories in 47 languages, as well as NBA rosters at the start of the 2014-15 season featuring a record 101 international players from 37 countries and territories. For the 2014-15 season, each of the league's 30 teams will play 82 regular-season games, followed by a postseason for those that qualify.
New Haven │In the early morning hours of Sunday, 8 February, 2015, Police S.W.A.T. Officers met with Detectives to plan the arrest of the suspect believed to have organized the shooting of the mother of three of his children.
Detectives had been investigating the shooting assault that happened on 31 January, 2015 at a County street apartment. The call came in at 7:33 PM. A woman, the mother of three children had been shot by an intruder while fleeing her apartment.
Arriving Officers located the victim, a 27 year old female, who'd been shot in her thigh. The victim told Police she'd returned home and discovered a white man in her apartment. She said as she fled, the man chased her and shot her. She said she didn't know her assailant.
The victim believed the perpetrator was still inside, prompting a search of the building. He was not located.
The victim's boyfriend, Terquinten Lee Fulton (9-8-1984), of New Haven, was outside in the car with the victim's three children. None of them witnessed the shooting but Fulton said he heard the gunfire. He brought the children to the safety of a neighbor's apartment, phoned 911 and went to check on the victim.
The shooter has been described as a thin white man in his late twenties. He stands about 5'6" tall and wore a black hooded sweatshirt.
Detectives worked the case and were suspicious of the children’s father. During the beginning of the investigation, Fulton was dramatically angry. Sometimes demanding that Detectives focus less on the victim and more on trying to find who’d done this.
The first break in the case came from New Milford, CT. It seems David Nieman (4-2-1990), who lives on Spring Street in New Milford, told a woman he was on a date with that he’d recently shot a woman in New Haven. The woman was no longer interested in continuing the date and got the cops involved after the man allegedly stole some of her cash.
When New Haven Police learned of his date confession, an arrangement was made for New Milford Police to pick him up. They did just that, interrupting Nieman and an accomplice attempting a burglary.
When New Milford Officers turned him over to our Detectives, Nieman admitted shooting the woman but had a back-story he wanted to tell.
Neiman said he was instructed to perpetrate the shooting as an initiation into a gang. He said the gun was provided by the father of the victim’s three children, all under the age of five years. The continuing interview worried Detectives that the victim may have not been the only one Fulton wanted harmed. This prompted the simultaneous warrant application and call-out for tactical Officers to serve it.
Shortly after 1:00 AM on Sunday, the warrant for Fulton’s arrest was signed by a Judge. Police went to 121 Lamberton Street where Fulton was spotted entering. Police entered and arrested Fulton without incident.
Nieman, a convicted felon, was charged with assault in the first degree, unlawful discharge of a firearm, criminal possession of a firearm, home invasion and conspiracy to commit assault in the first degree and home invasion.
Fulton was charged with conspiracy to commit assault in the first degree and conspiracy to commit home invasion.
Chief Dean M. Esserman said, “I am proud of our Department. This was a lot of information to put together, and with an early morning homicide to investigate, I was particularly impressed at the Detective’s ability to work both cases simultaneously”. We owe them and the fine Officers and Detectives of the New Milford Police Department a debt of gratitude”.
New Haven Police are especially appreciative of the detailed and speedy work of the Officers and Detectives from the New Milford Police Department. “Cooperation, such as this is what often solves crimes”, said Assistant Chief of Police, Achilles “Archie” Generoso. “We are greatly appreciative for their assistance. Without their help, we might still be looking”. Lieutenant Otoniel Reyes, the head of the department’s Detective Bureau was quick to agree with Generoso adding, “The case came together quickly because different units; the Investigative Services Division, the Shooting Task Force, The Intelligence Division, The F.B.I. Safe-Streets Task Force, Patrol and Emergency Services all worked together. They did a great job”.
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Officer David B Hartman, Media Liaison
Office of the Chief
Headquarters
New Haven Police Department
1 Union Avenue
New Haven, CT 06519
The City of New Haven will be enforcing the Ordinances as stated:
Sec. 27-9 Ice, snow, sleet – Duty of abutting owner to remove or abate
Removal – Any fall of snow or sleet by storm or otherwise upon any sidewalk constituting a part of any public highway, or upon any footpath or sidewalk intended for the use of pedestrians caused by freezing or rain or both shal be removed by owner of the land, building, bridge or premises fronting upon said sidewalks or connected with said footpath.
Sec. 27 – 12 Disposal by throwing into Streets: No person or property owner shall throw, place or plow, or cause to be thrown, placed or plowed, any ice or snow into any street within the City from private lands or property, sidewalk or gutter.
Penalty: Each person and property owner who shall violate the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars ($250.00) for each violation.
MAYOR HARP, REP. DeLAURO, DR. SALOVEY TO HOST NEA, NEH CHAIRMEN & CT
POET LAUREATE FOR CITY’S VALENTINE TRIBUTE TO ARTS AND CULTURE
OMNI HOTEL SITE FOR SALUTE TO PILLARS OF CREATIVE ECONOMY
New Haven
THIS UPLIFTING EVENT IS 'ON' THIS AFTERNOON, NO MATTER THE WEATHER...
– Mayor Toni N. Harp, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, and Yale
University President Dr. Peter Salovey will welcome to New Haven
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu, National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Chairman Willian ‘Bro’ Adams, and
Connecticut’s Poet Laureate Dick Allen on Monday when they host a
special Valentine-themed tribute to the city’s vibrant arts and
culture community.
New Haven is the irrefutable hub of the region’s creative economy and
literally dozens of city-based arts groups are celebrating milestone
anniversaries at this time. Mayor Harp, Rep. DeLauro, and Dr. Salovey
invited these special guests to help celebrate the historic
contributions of the arts and culture community to New Haven’s economy
and quality of life. Scores of arts groups will be represented at the
celebration.
Monday’s event will be held at the Omni Hotel, at 155 Temple Street,
beginning at 4:00 p.m. Members of the press who cover government,
business, arts, and culture are invited to the proceedings.
● Who: Mayor Toni N. Harp, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, Yale University
President Dr. Peter Salovey, NEA Chairman Jane Chu, NEH Chairman Willian
‘Bro’ Adams, CT’s Poet Laureate Dick Allen, and pillars of the
city’s arts and culture community.
● What: A special Valentine-themed tribute to the city’s vibrant
arts and culture community.
● When: Monday, February 9, 2015 at 4:00 p.m.
● Where: Omni Hotel ballroom, 155 Temple Street, New Haven.
● Why: To acknowledge the historic contributions of the arts and
culture community to New Haven’s economy and quality of life.
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POLICE NEWS:
3 February, 2015 – “DID YOU HEAR THAT GUNSHOT”?
At 8:30 PM, Officers Christopher Cameron and Carlos Conceicao were at
Dwight and Chapel Streets when they heard a gunshot. It sounded to them
as if it had come from the area of the nearby Antillean Manor housing
complex.
Officers Derek Werner and David Diaz were just blocks away on
Kensington Street when they heard the shot and radioed it in to
dispatchers. They thought the shot was fired close to the Kensington
Park. They headed there and began searching.
As they searched, Officers Conceicao and Cameron spotted Hassan Toller
(7-25-1990), of Bond Street in New Haven. He was on housing authority
property and didn’t live there. He was hunched over in a parking lot.
When Toler saw the Officers, he started walking down the sidewalk.
Officer Conceicao recognized him from a previous gun and drug arrest and
followed him to Day Street.
The Officer got in Toler’s way forcing Toler to walk toward him.
“Did you hear that gunshot”, asked Officer Conceicao. “No,
Carlos. I didn’t hear anything”, Toler responded. When asked what he
was doing back there, Toler said, “Nothing”. He was breathing
heavily and when questioned by the Officer about that, decided not to
stick around. Toler picked up his pace, looking over his shoulder at
Officer Conceicao several times.
Officer Conceicao followed Toler who had his right hand in his jacket
pocket. He called out, “Hassan, come here”. He didn’t. Instead,
Toler ran in a full sprint from the Officer. Officer Cameron was running
toward Toler from another direction. Toler took a dark object from his
pocket and tossed it to the ground.
Officers Werner and Diaz were heading to the spot Toler was running.
Soon surrounded, Toler followed the order to stop.
The item he’d discarded was a loaded black “Ruger” LC9 9mm
semi-automatic handgun with a laser attachment. The items he’d failed
to discard – found in his sweatshirt pocket were his five bags of
crack cocaine and money – suspected to be the profit from illegal drug
dealing.
Toler, a convicted felon, was arrested and charged with carrying a
pistol without a permit, criminal possession of a firearm, a few
narcotics charges and trespassing. No one had been shot.
During his arrest, Toler complained he was out of breath and requested
medical assistance. EMTs were called and transported him to Yale – New
Haven Hospital. He was soon released and brought to the detention center
for booking.
Officer David B Hartman, Media Liaison
Office of the Chief
Headquarters
New Haven Police Department
1 Union Avenue
New Haven, CT 06519
Office - 203-946-6285
Department Mobile - 203-589-3238
The 46th NAACP Image Awards are airing live Friday, February 6 at 8/7c on TV One, and this year's show is going to be big.
Our host, Anthony Anderson, is sure to keep you laughing all evening long, but the star power doesn't end there. The top names in film, TV, music, and literature are coming together Friday night to celebrate an incredible year of arts and entertainment.
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I'm sending a budget to Congress to kick off an important, and often difficult, process of deciding how our government should use taxpayer dollars.
Most years, this debate goes on behind closed doors in Washington, with too much input from special interests and lobbyists.
I think that should change. I know you're someone who cares deeply about where we go as a nation.
That's why OFA is asking people like you to make your voice heard in this debate -- will you join in?
Making budgets is something everyone does -- they're the truest measure of our priorities.
As Vice President Biden likes to say, "Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value."
I started the conversation during the State of Union by proposing ways to expand economic opportunity for the middle class, and make critical investments in infrastructure and education.
The budget I'm presenting today lays out exactly what else we can do to keep our families strong -- ways to make paychecks go further, raise wages, and create good jobs here at home. I'm also proposing that we re-evaluate how we make spending cuts -- because they shouldn't be made blindly across the board, as they have been in years past.
I suspect that some members of Congress will have their own ideas about what our priorities should be.
So do you.
This directly affects your life -- you need to have a say in it. This can't be a conversation that happens only in the halls of the Capitol.
OFA was founded to make sure the voices of ordinary Americans are heard in Washington.
That's why I hope you'll be part of this, with OFA or in any way you can -- say you will today:
http://my.barackobama.com/Have-a-Say-In-This-Debate
Thanks,
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New Haven – Mayor Toni N. Harp, state Department of Revenue Services
(DRS) Commissioner Kevin Sullivan, Executive Director for Connecticut
Association for Human Resource James Horan, VITA Volunteer and Policy
Analyst for Connecticut Voices for Children Nick DeFiesta, and Senior
Tax Consultant for Internal Revenue Service Ron Peruzzi will kick off a
free tax assistance program for working families at a City Hall press
conference Wednesday morning.
The city’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Coalition (VITA) provides
tax preparation guidance, including advice about the state’s Earned
Income Tax Credit (EITC), and suggestions about how to manage any
anticipated income tax refund.
The announcement by Mayor Harp and others is scheduled for Wednesday,
February 4th on Floor 2 of City Hall: 165 Church Street, at 10:00 a.m.
Members of the press are invited to cover this event.
● Who: New Haven Mayor Toni N. Harp, DRS Commissioner Kevin
Sullivan, Executive Director for Connecticut Association for Human
Resource James Horan, VITA Volunteer and Policy Analyst for Connecticut
Voices for Children Nick DeFiesta, and Senior Tax Consultant for
Internal Revenue Service Ron Peruzzi.
● What: Kick off and promotion of a free tax assistance and
guidance program available for working families.
● When: Wednesday, Feburary 4th 2015 at 10:00 a.m.
● Where: Floor 2 of New Haven City Hall, 165 Church Street, New
Haven.
● Why: To ensure working families in New Haven have access to
proper tax preparation guidance and suggestions, including referrals to
the state’s Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
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