by | Jun 6, 2011 4:18 pm | Comments (35)
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A campaign kickoff turned into a community meeting as Jeanette Morrison announced the latest in a series of first-time quests for seats on the Board of Aldermen.
by | Jun 6, 2011 7:24 am | Comments (39)
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The candidate with a non-voter named Rusty.
As he kicked off his reelection bid under a sunny sky at the tree-shaded Upper State Street Farmers Market, East Rock Alderman Matt Smith talked green: He said he’s looking to increase commercial recycling in his ward and in the process to keep helping the city plant more trees and advance its sustainability goals.
by | Jun 3, 2011 7:39 am | Comments (23)
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Hausladen.
After four terms as downtown alderwoman, Bitsie Clark is moving on. She plans to announce that news later Thursday as she introduces the man she hopes will be her successor.
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by | Jun 2, 2011 7:36 am | Comments (22)
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Calder.
Dwight Alderwoman Gina Calder announced Wednesday she will resign July 1, thus ensuring that her ward’s next alderman will be appointed by the mayor, not chosen by popular election.
by | Jun 1, 2011 11:13 am | Comments (32)
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As she launched another campaign for an aldermanic seat, Jessica Holmes vowed to fight for “transparency” in government decisions like removing Engine 8 from the Whitney Avenue firehouse, turning over a public school to a private company, and approving the city budget.
by | May 31, 2011 12:41 pm | Comments (67)
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A campaign-season press conference Tuesday about wanted crooks turned into a sidewalk seminar with skeptical young “Tre” neighbors who had questions about ski masks and a vanished hoops court.
by | May 27, 2011 2:17 pm | Comments (14)
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Lee (center) with his wife Linda (right).
(Updated) If he’s elected mayor, former Alderman Robert Lee promised to serve no more than four, or maybe five, terms.
by | May 27, 2011 9:54 am | Comments (31)
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Promising to take the West River neighborhood to “a higher level,” Tyisha Walker became the latest union-affiliated candidate to throw her hat into the ring in an election year marked by contentious municipal labor negotiations.
by | May 25, 2011 2:00 pm | Comments (23)
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Denouncing a “lack of leadership,” a custodian-turned-union official announced he’s running against city government’s number-two top elected official.
by | May 24, 2011 11:00 am | Comments (36)
Calder and Douglass.
As Dwight Alderwoman Gina Calder left a special budget meeting at City Hall, she was ambushed with a petition signed by 100 constituents — asking her to resign her post sooner rather than later so that they can choose her replacement.
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by | May 18, 2011 10:59 am | Comments (24)
Ricardo Henriquez with Charleen Ortiz.
Carbon monoxide from faulty furnaces drove Esther Martinez and Charleen Ortiz from their homes this winter. They have since returned home as leaders of a door-to-door organizing effort to give the 300 low-income families there a voice — and place to return to — when the Church Street South housing complex is rebuilt as a mixed-income development.
by | May 16, 2011 7:22 am | Comments (10)
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Four days after Mayor John DeStefano offered a sunny view of life in New Haven in his reelection campaign kickoff, former Hill Alderman Tony Dawson announced his own candidacy with a far more somber city portrait: “There is no laughter in our parks, only fear. Our streets are like a war zone.” And “the city sits on the brink of financial ruin.”
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by | May 10, 2011 6:06 pm | Comments (48)
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John DeStefano borrowed a page from a former president as he formally launched his quest for a record tenth term as mayor of a sunny city called New Haven.
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by | May 10, 2011 12:44 pm | Comments (11)
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Dawson.
Former Hill Alderman Tony Dawson said he plans to announce his candidacy for mayor Saturday — bringing to two the number of Democratic primary challengers to incumbent John DeStefano.
by | May 6, 2011 11:03 am | Comments (10)
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Clifton Graves (right) & Fair Haven “Angel” Taxi
As Democratic mayoral hopeful Clifton Graves launched a citywide listening tour, he joined Fair Haven neighbors in arguing the city should do more to keep kids occupied at night. Late at night.
by | May 4, 2011 11:06 am | Comments (16)
A voter survey commissioned by John DeStefano’s reelection campaign focuses less on his Democratic challenger than on a politician who’s not running.
by | May 2, 2011 11:00 am | Comments (7)
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A man challenging John DeStefano for mayor plans to use the Democracy Fund — a clean-elections system the mayor helped create, then opted out of.
by | Apr 18, 2011 1:11 pm | Comments (32)
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As Clifton Graves prepared to jump into the mayor’s race, he was heartened to see Cross students march for better schools — and outraged to see officials try to silence them.
by | Jan 5, 2011 12:09 pm | Comments (28)
Considering runs: Dawson (left), Graves.
(Updated with correction.) As potential candidates lined up to consider opposing him, Mayor John DeStefano said he has chosen to run for reelection this year without participating in the clean-money campaign system he birthed.