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Harp made her case for a third term Friday.
Mayor Toni Harp kicked off her campaign on the Democratic ticket for a third two-year term with celebration, pride and quite a bit of dancing.
by | May 19, 2017 11:46 pm | Comments (7)
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Paca at his first campaign office Friday.
Mayoral candidate Marcus Paca opened a campaign office and made a pitch for voter registration and education, in the heart of Fair Haven, particularly for those who are formerly incarcerated.
by | May 17, 2017 7:31 am | Comments (12)
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Marcus Paca in the WNHH FM studio.
Marcus Paca promised Tuesday that, if elected, he won’t have a police officer drive him around and he will promptly come clean with the public about mistakes like breaches of private health data.
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by | May 5, 2017 12:11 pm | Comments (14)
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Ira Johnson.
(Opinion) After reading the article from one of my mayoral opponents, Marcus Paca, although I respect him I must disagree with him on several points concerning the health and data breach within the city of New Haven.
by | May 1, 2017 2:57 pm | Comments (15)
(Opinion) Over the past two weeks, this paper has reported on a data breach in which hundreds of residents’ confidential medical records were compromised. These residents put their faith and trust in our city government in seeking services and treatment. However, the City of New Haven failed them and continues to fail them and all other city residents by not openly and publicly addressing the controversy from the top. While Harp Administration officials have remained silent, federal and state legal agencies have opened investigations regarding whether the city failed to comply with federal and state guidelines for response to data breaches. When/if wrongdoing is found, taxpayers will be on the hook for millions of dollars in potential civil liability.
by | Apr 24, 2017 4:01 pm | Comments (8)
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Cops throwing unarmed protester Nate Blair to the ground on Church Street, Feb. 4; he got a concussion.
A plan to create a new version of New Haven’s Civilian Review Board should get a chance to work, but the existing Board of Police Commissioners should also look at making more use of its powers, in the view of the mayor.
Continue reading ‘Harp Backs CRB Bill, Strengthened Cop Commission’
by | Apr 20, 2017 8:32 am | Comments (17)
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Hacibey Catalbasoglu at the launch at his dad’s pizzeria.
A New Haven local who grew up serving Yale students pizza at his father’s restaurant served up a new order there Wednesday night — for his college classmates to elect him as their representative on the Board of Alders.
by | Apr 20, 2017 7:50 am | Comments (1)
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Alfreda Edwards, Delphine Clyburn and Brenda Foskey-Cyrus at Wednesday night’s alder meeting.
Two thirds of Newhallville’s Board of Alders representation is stepping aside to make room for new blood.
by | Apr 19, 2017 7:42 am | Comments (3)
Harvey Feinberg.
Westville civic activist Harvey Feinberg has endorsed the mayoral candidacy of Marcus Paca.
by | Mar 30, 2017 10:22 pm | Comments (11)
Marcus Paca, who is seeking the Democratic mayoral nomination against incumbent Toni Harp, Thursday night blasted her proposed $554.5 million operating budget for the coming fiscal year, for increasing spending rather than cutting it.
by | Mar 24, 2017 4:36 pm | Comments (4)
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Caraballo.
Marcus Paca Friday picked up the first endorsement of his campaign to unseat Toni Harp in September’s Democratic mayoral primary.
by | Mar 21, 2017 2:31 pm | Comments (6)
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Johnson, at right, with supporter Maurice Smith at WNHH.
A year after Ira Johnson becomes mayor, more neighborhood schools will replace magnet schools. But the mayor’s chief of staff may remain the same.
by | Mar 11, 2017 5:48 pm | Comments (10)
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Roth: Now is the time for a strong board.
Pothole covers drove Abby Roth out of politics, but she’s ready to return.
by | Mar 9, 2017 6:58 pm | Comments (12)
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In describing his ideas for boosting education in New Haven, mayoral candidate Marcus Paca talked about how two teachers and an adult neighbor once reached a Hillhouse High School student who was struggling with his parents’ divorce and the death of his friends.
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