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The city’s first bike-share program is up and running – riding – with residents at crosswalks and bus stops gawking as LimeBike employees installed the bright green bikes at locations across Hartford. LimeBike, the brainchild of CEO Toby Sun and a prominent Silicon Valley firm, provides affordable, dockless pedal bikes to cities and college campuses across the United States. Hartford will […]
Lead crisis: Flint braces as Michigan shuts down free bottled water sites “My water stinks. It still burns to take a shower. There’s no way they can say it’s safe.” by Erik Ortiz / Apr.09.2018 / 11:44 AM ET / Updated Apr.09.2018 / 2:39 PM ET Shawn Jones, 42, right, and Tony Price, 54, distribute bottled water at a point […]
After Two Deaths, HPD Heeds Parents’ Demand for Crossing Guards Denise Fillion, School Crossing Guard Supervisor for the Hartford Police Department (HPD) Traffic Division, sent a letter to the Milner School office dated August 22, 2017, informing the school that two crossing guard posts associated with the school would be closing. Fillion cited “low […]
A return to debtors’ prisons: Jeff Sessions’ war on the poor One day after President Donald Trump invited Republican lawmakers to the White House to celebrate the historic tax cuts they passed for corporations and wealthy business leaders, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, quietly reinstated a draconian policy that effectively serves as a regressive tax […]
More to Think About: Community Rep. John Larson came to Faith Church for many reasons. Rep. Larson has visited numerous times, bringing information and keeping us informed. On this visit, he did two important things: he presented a copy of a proclamation in conjunction with having Rev. Camp’s words read into the Congressional Record, and […]
Faith Church and CENCAP Faith Church raised approximately $1500 for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico. We sent the money through CENCAP Federal Credit Union, a neighborhood financial institution. CENCAP is one of the few neighborhood financial institutions on Hartford’s North End. The branch nearest Faith is in a building formerly occupied by Bank of America. […]
7 videos Video by The Atlantic African Americans face disproportionate rates of lead poisoning, asthma, and environmental harm. Staff writer Vann R. Newkirk II argues that discrimination in public planning is to blame. “Pollution and the risk of disaster are assigned to black and brown communities through generations of discrimination and political neglect,” says Newkirk II. […]
Another prison facility closes as CT inmate population shrinks By: MARK PAZNIOKAS | The administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Wednesday the closure of the 254-bed Radgowski annex at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Montville, saving about $3 million in annual operating costs. “As crime in Connecticut has dropped to its lowest level in […]
Imperfect Choices: With Integrated Schools Out Of Reach, Segregated Options Gain Favor Twenty years after Sheff v. O’Neill — Connecticut’s decree that racial isolation in Hartford schools violated children’s constitutional rights — neighborhood schools have been left in the ruling’s shadow. Kathleen Megan and Matthew Kauffman Contact Reporters Connecticut’s network of regional magnet schools, long hailed […]
TROUBLED SCHOOLS ON TRIAL: FIRST OF SEVEN STORIES WHEN POVERTY PERMEATES THE CLASSROOM Struggling to cope with past sexual abuse and a mother who works long hours at a low-wage job, Alex regularly breaks down while at school. The screaming, crawling and crying of this 5-year-old at North Windham Elementary School – and the arrival […]
Community Renewal Team (CRT) Capital City YouthBuild AmeriCorps program is currently recruiting young people from Hartford, between the ages of 18-24. The participants selected will have the opportunity to obtain their high school diploma and develop skills for success while pursuing a career in Construction or Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA). Participants who have their high school diploma, […]
Bear’s Smokehouse Owners Raising Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour For Most Employees Jamie McDonald and Cheryl McDonald Co-Owner’s of the fast-growing Bear’s Smokehouse franchise, are planning to raise the minimum wage of all their “non-tip” employees to $15 an hour. The state’s minimum wage will rise from $9.60, to $10.10, as of Jan. 1. […]
Activities for Children Black children ages 5 to 19 drown in swimming pools at a rate more than five times that of white children. That suggests a lot of blacks are not learning to swim, said Dr. Julie Gilchrist of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to the USA Swimming Foundation, about […]
Environmental Racism Humankind has so much become one family that we cannot ensure our own security unless we ensure the security of all others.” – Bertrand Russell, from Simple Prosperity Why Is Environmental Racism an Issue of Faith? People of faith are called to care for all of our neighbors, regardless of their race, their […]