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Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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A dose of straight talk in Ward 2

Published Tuesday, April 1, 2008

At a “state of the Community” summit in the Dwight neighborhood this past weekend, truth spoke to power in New Haven. But if recent history is any indication, power may not have been listening.

During the impassioned discussion, local officials and community members offered refreshing straight talk. State Sen. Toni Harp called for the end of complacency in the New Haven Public Schools administration: “Trying hard,” she said, according to the New Haven Independent, “is just not enough anymore.”

Newly elected Ward 2 Alderwoman Gina Calder ’03 EPH ’08 called for a new...

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