by | Jul 30, 2015 8:03 am | Comments (37)
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Organizing by smartphone Wednesday night on Crown Street.
Kristin Barber was a New Haven Republican for nine years, serving on the GOP Town Committee. On the busiest grassroots night so far in the 2016 presidential campaign, she joined crowds of New Haveners Wednesday launching local efforts to propel a socialist to the White House.
by | Jul 22, 2015 11:40 pm | Comments (25)
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SCSU poli sci major Corey Stone works the Harp table at Wednesday’s convention.
While her counterparts in Connecticut’s other top cities are waging bruising battles for reelection, Mayor Toni Harp won the Democratic Party’s unanimous endorsement for a second two-year term at a drama-free convention.
The convention took place Wednesday evening inside Career High School’s auditorium.
by | Jul 22, 2015 3:35 pm | Comments (4)
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Nitza Diaz “hurts” to see English language learners (ELL) struggle to grasp the material, because she was there, too, as a teenager from Puerto Rico. She said she’s running for the Board of Education elected position in part to make the district’s ELL policies more consistent across all schools.
Continue reading ‘Ed Board Candidate Touts Policy Over Politics’
by | Jul 20, 2015 4:25 pm | Comments (6)
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Westville Alder Adam Marchand has no one running against him for reelection, but on Sunday he had a lot of people running with him.
by | Jul 20, 2015 8:01 am | Comments (4)
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Potholes got fixed. A law passed protecting kids’ health. Abby Roth had reason to celebrate — and to feel exhausted.
Continue reading ‘Retiring Alder: Potholes Can Impede Lawmaking’
by | Jul 17, 2015 10:55 am | Comments (5)
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For the first time in 16 years, a neighborhood in the Hill will be represented by someone other than Andrea Jackson-Brooks.
by | Jul 15, 2015 3:55 pm | Comments (0)
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Anais Nunez is dropping out of the race for one the Board of Education’s new elected positions, to focus on advocacy instead of politics.
by | Jul 14, 2015 12:07 pm | Comments (13)
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An incumbent Fair Haven alder boycotted his ward committee’s endorsement hearing and vowed to bypass the party in seeking reelection.
by | Jul 14, 2015 11:22 am | Comments (4)
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City politics now runs in the family in Ward 5.
by | Jul 14, 2015 8:34 am | Comments (5)
Standing in front of the former and future Q House, Jeanette Morrison announced she is running again for a Dixwell alder seat — in part to see the Q House’s revival through.
Continue reading ‘Morrison Spells Reelection Quest With A “Q”’
by | Jul 10, 2015 2:05 pm | Comments (18)
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Toni Harp returned to a neighborhood where she faced fierce opposition two years ago, and emerged with a unanimous endorsement for reelection as mayor.
Continue reading ‘Upper Westville Endorses Harp, Brackeen, Joyner, Smart’
by | Jul 1, 2015 7:46 am | Comments (28)
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The latest candidate to enter this year’s first-ever Board of Education elections sends his daughter to private school — which, he said, is a reason he’s running.
Continue reading ‘Goldson Resurfaces As School Board Candidate’
by | Jun 29, 2015 4:22 pm | Comments (4)
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In two and a half years in office, Democratic Fair Haven Alder Santiago Berrios-Bones has risen to the position of the deputy majority leader and helped tackle the distribution of federal community development block grants.
He said he wants another term to tackle what has become a rallying point for several incumbent alders seeking re-election; to move the needle on jobs. But he’s not the only man after the job of representing Ward 14.
by | Jun 29, 2015 3:54 pm | Comments (1)
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Clyburn, Walker, and City Clerk Michael Smart Saturday.
Newhallville neighbors are knocking on doors to reelect Delphine Clyburn, a two-term alder who knocks on the doors of her own ward every month.
by | Jun 29, 2015 1:14 pm | Comments (3)
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Former Alders James and Perez with newcomer Reyes.
Two alders representing the Hill neighborhood kicked off their bids for reelection at Trowbridge Square Park, while the nephew of a former longstanding alder sought to follow in his footsteps.
Continue reading ‘2 Incumbents, 1 Newcomer Announce Hill Candidacies’
by | Jun 29, 2015 1:12 pm | Comments (2)
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Don’t forget Fair Haven Heights: That’s the mission of Rosa Santana, a Democrat who launched a reelection campaign for Ward 13 alder amid drizzling rain outside Fairmont Park on Sunday afternoon.
by | Jun 26, 2015 11:00 am | Comments (10)
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Brackeen and Joyner.
Edward Joyner brought dozens of family members — biological and adopted — together to kick off his campaign for an elected seat on the Board of Education.
Continue reading ‘Joyner Draws A Crowd For Ed Board Campaign’
by | Jun 19, 2015 2:00 pm | Comments (6)
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Finishing what they started: That is the reason three alders gave the people gathered in a field behind Augusta Lewis Troup School to support them for another term.
by | Jun 18, 2015 3:05 pm | Comments (13)
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Maurice Smith, who marched “Freddy Fixer” down Dixwell Avenue is considering another march — this one to City Hall.
by | Jun 12, 2015 8:03 am | Comments (6)
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Retired NBA basketball player turned Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson (pictured) made his way to the East Coast Wednesday to help raise money for the reelection campaign of his New Haven counterpart, Toni Harp.
Continue reading ‘Hoopster-Turned-Mayor Touts Harp’s DC Access’
by | Jun 8, 2015 8:49 am | Comments (11)
“Welcome to Harp Alley,” Mayor Toni Harp said with a laugh.
Continue reading ‘Harp Opens Campaign HQ Where She Lost Before’
by | Jun 6, 2015 2:42 am | Comments (14)
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Debby Sullivan, Garzon and Kim Sullivan read results at 1:30 a.m.
Kimberly Sullivan and Coral Ortiz will be the first high school students to sit on New Haven’s Board of Education, following a pre-computer-age-style hand count that lasted 10 hours.
Continue reading ‘Sullivan, Ortiz Win Student Ed Board Seats’
by | Jun 5, 2015 11:51 am | Comments (8)
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Edward Joyner brought the “Comer Method” to schools around the country. Now he wants to turn his attention to his home city’s schools.
Continue reading ‘Child-Development Pioneer Seeks Ed Board Seat’
by | Jun 4, 2015 11:48 am | Comments (0)
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“Jesus?! Like in-the-sky Jesus?” asked a bewildered man on the Lower Green as he approached Jesus Garzon’s campaign table, advertising his candidacy for the Board of Education’s student seat as a first-ever election drew nearer.
“Yup, ‘Vote for Jesus!’” he replied.
Continue reading ‘Students Make Last Push For Board Of Ed Seats’
by | Jun 3, 2015 10:12 am | Comments (0)
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Sullivan (left), a candidate in the first Board of Ed student election.
At a campaign event replete with free doughnuts and dancing to the Cupid Shuffle, a candidate for New Haven’s school board wanted voters to know her plans for reforming secondary education — and, just as importantly, that an election is taking place at all.