I just found out it’s equal pay day! You gotta love that wage gap! Women earn on average 77.8% what men earn – the gap is greater for most women of color. Why today? Today’s date symbolizes how far into the year a woman must work, on average, to earn as much as a man earned the previous year. (And Tuesday is the day on which women’s wages catch up to men’s wages from the previous week.) (more…)

Freshman city council member, Matt Ritter, discusses Hartford politics including the charges against Mayor Eddie Perez, the economy, ban the box, and more.

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The ongoing conflict between the Middletown Health Department and the Middletown chapter of Food Not Bombs came to a head on April 26. Continue Reading

Amidst controversy over a mysterious memo, the Hartford Housing Authority has been seeking developers to demolish, then rebuild, the city’s final, as yet untouched, low income public housing project – Nelton Court.  Located in the North East neighborhood, Nelton Court is in one of Hartford’s most depressed areas.  But, HHA’s plan for development calls for cutting the number of actual housing units basically in half, from 156 to 80.   HHA claims that 76 units there are currently vacant.   Cutting overall units has been the Housing Authority’s trend.  Hartford is a poorer city today than when most of these projects were built, so the justification for decreasing the number of units is unclear.  Continue Reading

(MDC) (April 22, 2009) – The State of Connecticut Public Health Department is requesting that Metropolitan District (MDC) consumers in the towns of Bloomfield, Glastonbury, Portland, Windsor, Hartford, East Hartford, West Hartford, South Windsor and parts of East Granby and Windsor Locks, boil their drinking water for one minute until further notice. This notification is a precautionary measure.(more)

Community Partners in Action Prison Arts Program

May 3-31

John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull Street, New Haven, CT

Reception Saturday, May 9 from 5-7 pm
Wed-Fri 11 am to 4 pm
Saturday-Sunday 2-5 pm