Issues

PHOTOS!   

Cedar Hill neighborhood

As your alder, I will work with Cedar Hill residents, community leaders, and City officials to end the neglect that this neighborhood has suffered over the past many years. Read the flyer

Education:
(Click on each point for details, or Read the full position paper)

1. Amend the New Haven City Charter to provide for an elected Board of Education.
2. Hire enough teachers to reduce classroom size for grades K-3.
3. Make all K-8 schools neighborhood schools. Leave the large magnet schools for High School.
4. Initiate a program to help new inner-city parents understand the importance of verbal communication with their children, starting from day one.
5. Lobby the federal government and our congressmen to scrap the No Child Left Behind program and to replace it with funded programs that support traditional teaching methods.

In addition, I am calling on both sides of the Worthington Hooker school building dispute to pledge to accept the pending decision of the CT Supreme Court, and not to pursue any further legal, extra-legal, or legislative actions which might delay the implementation of that decision. Read the flyer

Fight the Hike

Connecticut now has the highest electric utility rates in the continental U.S.A. These increases are a direct result of the deregulation legislation passed unwisely by the CT General Assembly in 1998. Read the flyer

Lawnmower Pollution

To reduce the noise and air pollution from gasoline lawnmowers, the city can help by purchasing manual push-mowers in bulk and selling them at cost to city residents.

An Independent Voice

I will stand up to the Mayor on issues such as taxes and downtown development.