Jeffrey Kerekes, a co-founder of NHCAN has announced his intention of running as a clean elections candidate for Mayor of New Haven. Read about it here:
Jeffrey Kerekes, Candidate For Mayor
June 14th, 2011Some Documents
March 4th, 2011Broke Town, USA- NYTimes Reports
March 4th, 2011Is this New Haven’s near future? Do you think the new budget addresses the problems we face as a city?
Read this NYT article.
Bill Gates on Ending Government Gimmicks
March 4th, 2011Gates Calls for ‘Clear and Honest’ Accounting of State Budgets.
This year’s New Haven Budget employs the exact gimmicks that would “make ENRON blush”.
Cash Strapped Cities
December 11th, 2010Check this out: CNN Report on Cash Strapped Cities. Pay attention to Corey Booker’s thoughts on not only budget shortfalls but the unfunded pension and healthcare liabilities. This is HIGHLY relevant to New Haven.
Excellent Critique of John DeStefano
November 17th, 2010Excellent Critique on the Yale Daily News By Nathan Zelinsky:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2010/nov/16/zelinsky-just-say-destefano/
Some Background Documents on the Budget
November 15th, 2010The biggest question about the Mayor’s new found position, is whether he will listen to the people? Here are some citizen driven reports and suggestion on the budget. Will he listen?
Mayor Starts Discussion on Budget
November 15th, 2010Check out these two recent articles. We don’t know if there will be any substance to these claims by the mayor but we will have to wait and see.
NHI Article and the NH Advocate Article.
Our Latest Email: $1.5 Billion in School Construction Without A Plan
September 16th, 2010Click to view our latest email newsletter. We send them out infrequently (and regularly during the budget season). Sign up below on the right hand column.
NY Times Op-Ed On Fixing Public Pensions
September 16th, 2010This is an interesting idea about how to deal with the public pension problems such as we have here in New Haven. New Haven has used these same overly optimistic (if not delusionally) high return ratios to reduce the amount it has to contribute each year. This op-ed suggests one way for finding our way out of the huge pit our Mayor dug.
Contact Rosa DeLauro about this op-ed and ask her to sponsor such a bill.
