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 – A Memorial Day Prayer
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MARB offer late, necessary City Council Chairman Peter Massaro has a point, and it is one the Municipal Accountability Review Board should take under advisement. That said, striking a first-ever relationship with the legislative leaders of the … [Read more...] about Editorial
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Time for annual clean-up With the coming of spring, it is time for our annual reminder for home and business owners to do a bit of seasonal cleaning and sprucing up of their properties. The spate of warmer weather we are having should give us … [Read more...] about Editorial
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Hearing over, not process In our editorial on this page two weeks ago, we urge West Haven residents to take an active interest in the budget-making process now underway. With the completion of the charter-required public hearing on Monday, the … [Read more...] about Editorial
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Get involved in budget Last week, Mayor Nancy N. Rossi unveiled her $173.4 million budget package for Fiscal Year 2024, beginning July 1, before a special session of the City Council. The annual March proposal begins a six-week process that … [Read more...] about Editorial
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The word is ‘chaotic’ If there is a word that aptly describes the history of the City of West Haven’s financial picture over the last three-plus decades, it would be “chaotic.” Indeed, that is the only word one could use and be truthful. … [Read more...] about Editorial
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Theatre of the Absurd We have always likened the annual – or in the case of the State of Connecticut, biennial – budget process to a line from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” The haughty Pooh-Bah is asked to sign a letter to the Mikado, … [Read more...] about Editorial
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Program rollout a lesson Residents have received an abject lesson in governmental overreach – albeit in a small scale – with the recent kerfuffle concerning the “Food Scraps to Energy” program, announced by the Rossi administration in late … [Read more...] about Editorial
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A ‘geologic time’ line If we were to produce an aphorism that describes West Haven, we would write thus: West Haven does things in geologic time. No matter what this issue, what the project, what the matter before the leaders of West … [Read more...] about Editorial
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Our priorities for 2023 With the turning of the calendar, the West Haven Voice, once again, offers those issues we hope will be addressed – and resolved – over the next year. Since our first year of operation, we have made this first edition of … [Read more...] about Editorial