By MAGGIE ANGST | mangst@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News GroupPUBLISHED: August 3, 2021 at 3:50 p.m. | UPDATED: August 17, 2021 at 11:44 a.m. The lead emissions place nearby children at an elevated risk of permanent developmental issues (mercurynews.com August 3, 2921) Thousands of children in predominantly low-income neighborhoods near East San Jose’s Reid Hillview are at higher risk of permanent developmental …
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Borrowing to build: Tweed New Haven expansion deal comes with financial risk
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by JIM HADDADIN AND WALTER SMITH-RANDOLPH | CONNECTICUT PUBLIC RADIO JULY 28, 2021 VIEW AS “CLEAN READ” (ctmirror.org July 28,2021) It’s been a tough stretch for the travel industry, but Tweed New Haven Airport could be poised for a comeback. A new budget airline will begin flights from New Haven this fall, and the company …
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10,000 Hawks Group Seeks Open Communication on Tweed Development
BY JENN MCCULLOCH/ZIP06.COM • 07/06/2021 12:15 P.M. EST (zip06.com July 6,2021) EAST HAVEN — For more than two decades, a group of neighbors from East Haven, New Haven, and Fair Haven has focused on the impact that Tweed New Haven Airport has on the community. The group recently renamed itself “10,000 Hawks” as a nod …
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“10,000 Hawks” Take Flight Against Tweed Expansion
(New Haven Independent by ALLAN APPEL | Jul 5, 2021 9:32 am) Opponents of the $70 million privately funded plan to expand Tweed-New Haven Airport have formed a new organization to fight it, called 10,000 Hawks. Their aim is to watch like hawks as the plan’s details, to be executed by public Tweed’s private operational managers, the Goldman Sachs-owned Avports, progress into what they …
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10,000 HAWKS LAUNCHES TO ADDRESS QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES
May 31, 2021 by Rachel Heerema (par-newhaven.org May 31, 2021) The name 10,000 Hawks honors the numbers of raptors in the annual hawk migration that takes place over Tweed airspace & our East Haven, East Shore, and Fair Haven neighborhoods. 10,000 Hawks addresses quality of life issues, including air quality, noise pollution, traffic calming, walkability, …
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New Haven, Connecticut Written by Michele Gielis (anthropocenealliance.org May 31, 2021) In February 2019, the USC Environmental Health Center reported on a study by Dr. Rima Habre about short-term health impacts caused by breathing in ultrafine particulate (UFP) matter that is emitted from aircraft activity at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). “The results showed levels of …
East Haven’s Carfora backs Tweed New Haven Regional Airport expansion plan, says community concerns “addressed’
Mark Zaretsky May 6, 2021. Updated: May 6, 2021 4:50 p.m (nhregister.com May 6,2021) NEW HAVEN — When state and local officials and those from Tweed New Haven Regional Airport, Avelo Airlines and AvPorts announce a historic agreement to breathe new life into Tweed — East Haven Mayor Joseph Carfora will be right there with them. …
Tweed New Haven airport announces $70 million expansion
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT by PAUL BASS & THOMAS BREEN | NEW HAVEN INDEPENDENT MAY 6, 2021 VIEW AS “CLEAN READ” ( ctmirror.org May 6, 2021) Tweed New Haven is embarking on a $70 million privately funded expansion, with a new four-gate, 74,000 square-foot terminal and daily service from a new airline. Read Full Article here.
Sinking land could ground Tweed airport expansion plans
Jan Ellen Spiegel, CTMirror.org. April 29, 2019. Updated: April 29, 2019 10:27 a.m (ctpost.com April 29, 2019). Since 1931, Tweed New Haven Airport has sat on a spit of what was once salt marsh and wetlands straddling the East Haven border. It is wedged between New Haven Harbor where the Quinnipiac River empties, the Farm River mouth …
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With American back at Tweed, fight over runway looms
ISAAC YU 12:14 AM, FEB 19, 2021 STAFF REPORTER (Yale Daily News Feb 19,2021) Tweed-New Haven Airport lost commercial service last November due to record drops in demand during the pandemic. However, on Jan. 6, the airport resumed flights with American Airlines to Philadelphia. Tweed is now planning to finalize a master expansion plan next month …
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