Local and Legislative Events

November 5, 2021
Good news!

Tonight, the Arts Council Awards feature Babz Rawls Ivy as pre show host, and Marcella Monk Flake as ceremony emcee. Click here to learn more.

Saturday morning celebrates Q House! Funding began with $14.5 million in bonding due to the support of the New Haven delegation and the former governor, beginning in 2011. It’s exciting to see it come to pass. Click here to see the bonding agenda when funds were initially allocated. Please also click here to learn more in a New Haven Register article.

Saturday at four is New Haven’s Day of the Dead. Click here to learn more about the festivities.

Recently two of our neighbors, Lindy Lee Gold and Alice Forrester, were honored by the Quinnipiac Chamber of Commerce. Click here to read what they were honored for, and congratulations!

And we began the week at the capitol with an inquiry in to the state’s Unemployment Trust Fund. It’s complex, and only one aspect of the state budget and the economy affected by the pandemic. We did not finish on Monday, but here’s a link to the hearing on YouTube.