As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Erica Moser
As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
Published May 07. 2021 4:02PM
In order to preserve the quality of life in Noank, we must restrict and regulate STR’s (less than 30 days), “Short-term rental rules proposed in Noank,” (May 2). Noank is a quiet place to live with a long history of LTR’s and homeownership. Noank is a residential community where everyone knows their neighbors. Homes are close together. Streets are narrow.
Noank is now a tourist attraction with 25-50 STR’s and noise, speeding cars, litter and parties at night. To those who claim they cannot pay their taxes without their STR income, I say rent for a month at a time, but not for a weekend or a week. Our homes and lives are upended by those who are on vacation. Vermont is struggling with STR regulations to preserve and protect neighborhoods. The Hamptons want owner-occupied only. Towns on the Cape implemented a town tax on STR’s to cover the added burdens placed on services. Health and safety regulations, fire codes, inspections, insurance,
From Dr. Jacqueline Delmont, Chief Medical Officer at Somos, gives Helen Washington, 76, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site at St. Luke s Episcopal Church in the Bronx. Mary Altaffer/AP Photo
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The center of D.C. s first documented outbreak of the coronavirus last spring was a church in Georgetown, in wealthy and majority-white Ward 2. But once the virus started spreading rapidly across the city, its devastating effects fell hardest on Black and Latino residents. Ward 8, which is 92% Black, has seen the highest per-capita death rate from the virus in the District. And citywide, 74% of residents who have died from the coronavirus are Black, even though Black people make up 46% of the city s population.