Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:42 p.m.

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City Hall reaches out to local teens

Contributing Reporter
Published Thursday, November 15, 2007

Ward 7 Alderwoman Frances “Bitsie” Clark can still remember clearly the time she was most impressed with the youth of New Haven.

She remembers a girl who came to the front of the stage at one of two public youth hearing hosted by the Board of Aldermen last year to speak against a teenage curfew proposal.

“You gave birth to us,” Clark said the girl said to the audience. “Can’t you give one hour to talk to us?”

That line — along with other questions asked by over 300 upset teenage attendees — caused aldermen and parents alike to be “blown away” after the hearings,...

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