by | Aug 3, 2018 12:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Merrill testifying at the Capitol in favor of an early-voting proposal.
Denise Merrill isn’t looking to give 16-year-olds the vote, but she wants them to sign up to get ready.
by | Aug 1, 2018 8:01 am | Comments (6)
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Democratic candidate Ned Lamont gets some firsthand Elm City art experience as he paints alongside local artist Kwadwo Adae on Newhallville’s women’s empowerment mural.
Tim Herbst: “We have to dig out of this hole.”
How best to protect endangered arts funding at a time of statewide fiscal crisis?
For three candidates participating in a forum in New Haven, the answer lies in fixing underfunded pensions.
Continue reading ‘3 Candidates See Pensions As Arts Villain’
by | Jul 31, 2018 12:10 pm | Comments (1)
The Amalgamated Transit Union, including CT Transit workers from New Haven, has endorsed Susan Bysiewicz, the party-endorsed candidate for lieutenant governor in an Aug. 14 primary. Bysiewicz submitted the following piece about it.
by | Jul 30, 2018 5:24 pm | Comments (14)
Lamont in the conference room; Ganim in the ring.
The candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination released new commercials Monday, one filmed in the ring, the other in the conference room.
by | Jul 27, 2018 8:05 am | Comments (15)
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Jerome Richardson’s arrest on the Green, a Goselin talking point.
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Green Party candidate Goselin.
Peter Goselin wants to become Connecticut’s next attorney general so the state can start suing the cops.
by | Jul 26, 2018 3:56 pm | Comments (0)
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Moderator Dixon, Ganim and Lamont at Thursday’s debate.
FAIRFIELD—The day after a debate between the Democratic candidates for governor turned tense in New Haven over how Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim has handled incidents involving deaths of young people of color, the emotional issue resurfaced Thursday again at another debate at Sacred Heart University.
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by | Jul 25, 2018 8:18 am | Comments (3)
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The candidate with 97-year-old Rifkin.
After college, two of her three kids received their most attractive job offers not in Connecticut but in New York City, and so have moved there.
That’s why, Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Susan Bysiewicz said, she wakes up every morning of her campaign thinking about what she can do to keep young people in Connecticut.
That rang a bell with 97-year-old Sylvia Rifkin, who also has children — make that grandchildren — who likewise have moved to New York to begin their careers.
by | Jul 24, 2018 4:26 pm | Comments (9)
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GOP candidates at Tuesday’s debate.
Fairfield— Can Connecticut really afford to eliminate the income tax?
With the days winding down toward the Aug. 14 Republican gubernatorial primary, the five candidates on the ballot offered differing views on that question as they worked hard Tuesday in a debate to make their position on taxes and state spending stand out from each other.
Continue reading ‘Eliminating Income Tax: Doable? Or “Fantasy”?’
by | Jul 24, 2018 12:09 pm | Comments (3)
Do you care about public transportation in Connecticut? Or about state park land?
If so, you’ll want to pay close attention to this year’s election ballot, and not just to the parts about who’s running for governor or attorney general.
by | Jul 18, 2018 12:06 pm | Comments (22)
New Haven’s Rev. Boise Kimber is standing behind Joe Ganim — again.
by | Jul 16, 2018 8:25 am | Comments (22)
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Bermudez Zimmerman greets Pastor Roger Wilkins at the forum Sunday.
A Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor admitted that she’s looking to run on a ticket with someone who wasn’t her first choice.
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by | Jul 13, 2018 8:36 am | Comments (18)
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Lamont (above), Ganim (below) take turns trashing each other in the Shubert’s post-debate spin room.
Gallon for sale at Walgreens.
Asked how much a gallon milk costs, Ned Lamont hesitated, then raised three fingers.
“Three dollars,” he said — then resumed tussling with Joe Ganim over who best understands and can fight for “vulnerable” and middle-class families.
by | Jul 12, 2018 5:26 pm | Comments (15)
In New York, a Democratic candidate introduced herself to primary voters with the above get-to-know-the-candidate video in the hopes of igniting passion.
by | Jul 4, 2018 9:15 am | Comments (12)
The crowd at Lamont’s Tower One/Tower East campaign stop.
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Gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont makes his pitch.
Legal marijuana? Check.
Abortion rights? Check.
Pro public-sector unions? Check.
Electronic highway tolls? Check … kind of.
by | Jul 3, 2018 2:52 pm | Comments (6)
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Daryl Brackeen at Monday evening’s Board of Alders meeting.
Darryl Brackeen Jr. said he has decided to give State Rep. Pat Dillon another term to show that she can bring home more bacon for the 92nd General Assembly District she’s represented since 1984.
by | Jun 29, 2018 12:59 pm | Comments (6)
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Kurt Miller at WNHH FM.
New Haven doesn’t need to tax Yale to get the financial help it needs. It can tax restaurant meals and hotel rooms instead.
Continue reading ‘Comptroller Candidate: Don’t Tax Yale, Hospital’
by | Jun 28, 2018 7:50 am | Comments (4)
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Eva Bermudez Zimmerman with supporters outside the May Democratic convention.
Wednesday morning’s news headlines brought a boost to Eva Bermudez Zimmerman’s quest to become Connecticut’s first Hispanic and first millennial statewide elected official.
Continue reading ‘From Sheff To Janus, Candidate Courts Change’
by | Jun 27, 2018 8:02 am | Comments (10)
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Stemerman at Shubert debate.
Toni Harp may not be running for governor, but don’t tell that to the Republicans who are.
by | Jun 22, 2018 3:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Paul Garlinghouse submitting petitions last week at 200 Orange St.
A civil rights lawyer making his first run for office fell 22 signatures short of landing a spot on the Aug. 14 Democratic primary ballot.
Continue reading ‘Garlinghouse Falls Short On Primary, Eyes Independent Run’
by | Jun 20, 2018 8:16 am | Comments (28)
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Hatfield at WNHH FM: Will she be 1st woman to win AG race?
Don’t look for Sue Hatfield to sign onto letters attacking Donald Trump if she becomes Connecticut’s next attorney general, even when some of her fellow Republicans criticize him for separating parents and children at the border.
by | Jun 18, 2018 7:58 am | Comments (6)
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The candidate with Basset Street resident Lossie Gorham.
Chris Mattei listened for nearly ten straight minutes. He leaned in, kept eye contact. But he didn’t say a word.
His interlocutor was Shelton Avenue resident Darlene Grant, who graphically described a bleak situation: She has a chronically derelict landlord, with trash overflowing in the back yard, mice running throughout the house. and a little child who’s been tested for lead and has alarmingly elevated levels.
When the exterminators do come, they stay for five minutes, and then are gone; yet the mice remain. She desperately wants to move out but with her federal Section 8 rent voucher she doesn’t know where to go, or to whom to turn for help.
Finally Mattei said that’s why he’s running for Connecticut attorney general: to serve as her voice.
by | Jun 14, 2018 6:49 pm | Comments (4)
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Jerome Richardson’s arrest on the Green.
Two incidents reported over the past week in New Haven have prompted a candidate for Connecticut attorney general to call for an investigation into racial profiling.
by | Jun 14, 2018 6:28 pm | Comments (21)
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Ned Lamont on the 212 bus.
Invoking Kim Jong-un at Orlando’s Barbershop.
As the 212 bus left Downtown for Grand Avenue, Skyler Shepard told Democratic gubernatorial frontrunner Ned Lamont about his recent struggles with homelessness.
by | Jun 13, 2018 7:55 am | Comments (5)
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Troy Jackson, New Haven office coordinator for Joe Ganim, drops off petitions Tuesday at the Registrar of Voters Office at 200 Orange St.
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Joe Ganim with his box of petitions at WNHH FM.
Joe Ganim couldn’t convince 282 delegates at a Democratic Party convention to support him for governor. So he went out and got 32,000 Democratic voters to sign petitions.
by | Jun 11, 2018 10:47 pm | Comments (5)
Campaigns outside the Shubert before the debate.
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2 Tacks: Herbst, Boughton in New Haven Monday night.
Four leading Republican candidates for governor debated each other in Connecticut’s best-known sanctuary city — and to a man condemned sanctuary cities.
But there was at least one noticeable difference between the way two of them did that.
Continue reading ‘In Sanctuary City, GOP Gubernatorial Candidates Bash Sanctuary Cities’