6:50pm–#Fairfield Connecticut–Two crashes in two parts of town. The first one is shown here at the intersection of Melville Avenue and Berkeley Road. One person fled the scene but returned. One person is suffering with chest pains. Another two car crash is reported at Post Road at Kings Street.
4:39pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut–Two crashes to make you aware of. One at South Frontage and Broad Street. Another crash at Main and Federal Street. Not a way to start your Friday commute. Avoid the area if you can.
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10:01pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut– The Sunshine Deli at the intersection of Maplewood and Lenox Avenue was robbed at gunpoint by 3 masked men. They fled north on Lenox Avenue. Heavy police presence in the area. Police are checking surveillance video from the store.
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On 4/5/2016 at 0630 hours, members of the Bridgeport Police Department Detective Bureau served an arrest warrant on Alfonzo Reid at his residence located at 128 Scofield Avenue Bridgeport, CT. Reid was taken into custody without incident and charged with Sexual Assault 1st Degree. The arrest of Reid is the result of an investigation by this agency regarding the sexual assault of a Sacred Heart University student on 3/30/2016, where Reid is alleged to have taken the 19 year old female victim to his home where he sexually assaulted her.
4:19pm–#Trumbull Connecticut–Police on the way to Kohl’s at 100 Hawley Lane for an employee in custody for taking money according to radio reports.
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2:11pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut–Report of smoke coming from the elevator shaft at the condos at 850 Atlantic Street. They say that shaft is a bad mutha…..
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1:33pm–A police officer just said he spoke to a UI crew and they are still trying to locate the source of the outage.
1:00pm–#Trumbull Connecticut–Police are reporting a power outage in the Daniels Farm Road area. UI is aware of the outage.
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#Hartford, CT. – On Thursday, April 7, Hartford child care workers and parents in the Fight for $15 will gather at Mt. Olive Child Care Center and call on elected leaders to invest in affordable, quality child care and strong workforce. U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro will then join the workers in a roundtable discussion on Connecticut’s child care system.
A new report by the Economic Policy Institute released this week found that a national investment that caps families’ child care expenditures at 10 percent of their income could help more women join and stay in the workforce, boosting national GDP by about $210 billion and putting $3B into Connecticut’s economy
. This is a state where barely one-third of parents can afford quality childcare. Making childcare affordable would also save the average Connecticut family $5,182 freeing up 7.1% of their annual income.
Fixing our broken child care system and paying child care providers at least $15/hr would directly raise wages for 60% of the workforce. Child care providers are currently among the lowest paid workers in the country, with a median hourly wage 39.3% lower than the median hourly wage of workers in other occupations.
Furthermore, we are facing major budget cuts in Connecticut, cuts to services that will affect many childcare workers and families. In addition to getting federal funding for our unfair childcare system, Connecticut legislators are pushing for a remedy to the annual budget crisis with SB391, which would implement the Low Wage Employer Fee. The Legislature’s Office of Fiscal Analysis estimates that in just the first two years the bill would generate nearly $450 million to help offset devastating cuts to critical services such as childcare and healthcare by holding wealthy corporations accountable. Not only would this help relieve the burden on taxpayers, it would create additional revenue; thus, eliminating the perpetual cycle of budget cuts that affects our most vulnerable, hardworking families.
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10:58pm–#Bridgeport Connecticut–Police on patrol discovered a car fire at the M&F Auto Body Shop on North Avenue and called the fire department. Within minutes of the firefighters arrival they quickly had the fire extinguished as with most car fires. You can see that trash was pushed under the fencing to start the blaze. The intersection was closed for a short amount of time but it caused no delays in the area.
