Editorials

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

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

‘Neighbor helping neighbor’ West Haven is known for many things, and some of them we are sorry to say, are not the most edifying. Too often, in fact, the negatives of the community seem to be the only things heard about us: our corrupt … [Read more...] about Editorial

Veterans Day, 2022 Next week, we celebrated Veterans Day, a commemoration of all those who served – and those who died – wearing the uniform of the nation. Originating as Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1918, it was dedicated to the end of what was … [Read more...] about Editorial

Court ruling unsurprising The ruling by the Connecticut State Supreme Court in the election dispute between 2021 Republican Candidate Barry Lee Cohen and city voting officials went as expected. The high court ruled the plaintiff, Cohen, failed … [Read more...] about Editorial

Hail Columbus and ignore the ‘woke’ crowd October 12 is Columbus Day – not indigenous people’s day, or some other non-descript “woke” nonsense, but Columbus Day. Hail Columbus! Christopher Columbus, explorer, privateer, complex individual was a … [Read more...] about Editorial