Editorials

An open letter to MARB Dear Municipal Accountability Review Board: Listen, we get it. The City of West Haven has used a Ponzi scheme of tricks, budgetary sleights of hand, and lots of state money over the last two and a half decades to balance … [Read more...] about Editorial

A Memorial Day prayer Memorial Day was begun as a way to honor the Civil War dead in the 1880s. Known as Decoration Day until fairly recently, it is a way for the nation to remember all those who fight for the nation, and especially those who pay … [Read more...] about Editorial

The push to erect tolls just another $$ source The push has begun. Anyone listening to radio or watching TV should have noticed the public service announcements now being sponsored by groups concerning the proposed imposition of tolls on the … [Read more...] about Editorial

MARB nixing budget should be no surprise The news that the Municipal Accountability Review Board rejected city’s approved budget ordinance should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the financial machinations the city has experienced … [Read more...] about Editorial

MARB has no input on consolidation issue Two concurrent events have brought up the word “consolidation” up again in the political dialogue of the city. With the oversight of the Municipal Accountability Review Board and the Charter Revision … [Read more...] about Editorial

Keeping our city clean is a task we all share Spring has finally taken hold on the area, and the cold of Ole Man Winter is becoming a memory. With the warmer weather comes the annual rite of the season: spring cleaning. Last week, the city … [Read more...] about Editorial

‘Paying their fair share’ never gets a definition In the run up to developing a new budget, and with it new revenues wished for by Gov. Ned Lamont, one is hearing the mantra the state’s well-to-do must pay “their fair share” to keep the state … [Read more...] about Editorial

Public gets look at plan West Haven’s version of the Rites of Spring came last Thursday with the unveiling of Mayor Nancy Rossi’s second budget before a special session of the City Council. The public gets its only opportunity to opine on the … [Read more...] about Editorial

What is an emergency? The recent veto of a Congressional resolution condemning President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border was yet another indication that Congress and both parties do not want to … [Read more...] about Editorial

Real cure is progress After the area experienced two fires in within a two-week span, the Haven Group, LLC has engaged the services of a security company in order to make sure more blazes do not erupt. Earlier this month a fire began at 22 … [Read more...] about Editorial