Editorials

Start to pay attention In the next few days, the two major parties in West Haven will determine which names will head and fill their respective slates for the upcoming November mayoral election. The Democratic and Republican Town Committees … [Read more...] about Editorial

Stick with the city’s issues Last month, Barry Lee Cohen was the third Republican to enter his name into the 2023 race for mayor, the others are Paige Weinstein and Steven R. Mullins, former P&Z member, and longtime party advocate. In … [Read more...] about Editorial

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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