by | Nov 25, 2019 8:35 am | Comments (1)
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As Hamden Mayor Curt Leng stood with his left arm over his wife Stephanie’s shoulder and his right arm raised in front of him, palm facing forward, four words jumped out at him: “Faithfully discharge your duties.”
Continue reading ‘Sworn In For 4th Term, Leng Vows “Faithful” Service’
by | Nov 20, 2019 6:02 pm | Comments (2)
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Merrill testifying at the state Capitol in favor of early voting.
Like millions of Americans, Denise Merrill has been glued this week to live testimony in the presidential impeachment hearings in Congress — in her case, with an eye toward Election Day 2020.
Continue reading ‘Merrill: 2020 Needs To Be “Best Election We’ve Ever Had”’
by | Nov 13, 2019 8:53 am | Comments (6)
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Ward 25 poll workers on Election Day.
(Opinion) The election last Tuesday was a success.
by | Nov 8, 2019 2:26 pm | Comments (11)
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Dennis Serfilippi and Adam Marchand after the polls closed Tuesday.
Dennis Serfilippi ran for alder Tuesday as an independent in Ward 25 against incumbent Adam Marchand, who won the election. Serfilippi wrote the following article.
Driving home from Edgewood School on Election Night I realized there was unfinished business. I needed to find a way to express my gratitude and more importantly share my experiences of the day just passed.
by | Nov 6, 2019 8:15 pm | Comments (6)
Democrat Justin Elicker defeated incumbent Toni Harp by 12,296 to 5,034 votes, or 69 to 28 percent, in Tuesday’s mayoral election, according to official results released by the Registrar of Voters office.
by | Nov 6, 2019 5:13 pm | Comments (22)
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Elicker at Wednesday’s post-election presser.
The morning after a landslide change election, Mayor-Elect Justin Elicker vowed stability, continuity — and nuts-and-bolts improvements to how government interacts with citizens, rather than a “house-cleaning.”
by | Nov 6, 2019 5:12 pm | Comments (7)
Newly elected Council member Dominique Baez.
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Kathleen Schomaker hugs Berita Rowe-Lewis (facing camera).
More diversity, familiar faces — analyzing Hamden’s election results.
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by | Nov 6, 2019 1:55 pm | Comments (4)
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Wooster Square Democratic candidate Ellen Cupo had a good reason for not spending all day outside Ward 8’s polling place: She was busy giving birth to her and her husband’s first child.
Continue reading ‘Cupo Becomes First-Time Alder, First-Time Mother’
by | Nov 5, 2019 11:52 pm | Comments (2)
WNHH FM’s Babz Rawls-Ivy, Michelle Turner, and Markeshia Ricks reported, analyzed and interviewed reporters and participants about the results of Tuesday’s elections in New Haven, Hamden, Bridgeport, Danbury, and Hartford as they unfolded. Click above to watch.
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Elicker (center) surrounded by his wife and parents (left) and labor organizer Scott Marks (right).
Justin Elicker is the next mayor of New Haven, after defeating incumbent Toni Harp by well more than a 2 – 1 margin in Tuesday’s election.
by | Nov 5, 2019 10:22 pm | Comments (10)
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Dennis Serifilippi congratulates Adam Marchand at the Ward 25 polls.
Democrats swept all 30 races for Board of Alders seats in New Haven.
by | Nov 5, 2019 8:47 pm | Comments (9)
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Mayor Leng, with son Cooper on sign duty.
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Republicans react to results
Curt Leng won a third term as Hamden’s mayor on Tuesday night, easily beating Republican challenger Jay Kaye with 60 percent of the vote.
by | Nov 5, 2019 5:14 pm | Comments (0)
Clara Tolbert saw parents bringing their children with them to vote Tuesday — an experience she never had growing up in the Jim Crow South.
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Outside Ward 7 Tuesday.
Tuesday’s mayoral election appeared headed for a larger voter turnout than in the September primary, but perhaps not as high as the last time the same two candidates squared off.
by | Nov 5, 2019 9:03 am | Comments (8)
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Elicker with DeLauro at Bella Vista
Longtime Democratic activist — and Bella Vista tenant association vice president — Patti DiPalma was leaning toward the party’s young mayoral nominee, Justin Elicker.
But she wasn’t quite sure yet he would give him her vote Tuesday morning.
She listened to Gov. Ned Lamont and to U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal and to City Clerk Michael Smart, and to a host of others Democratic Party leaders urge her to select Elicker. She remained undecided.
Then she listened to U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro. That made the difference.
DeLauro, DiPalma said, is like family.
by | Nov 4, 2019 5:38 pm | Comments (4)
Sixty thousand New Haveners get the chance Tuesday to weigh in on who should run New Haven for the next two years, at the end of a dizzying election season.
by | Nov 4, 2019 1:25 pm | Comments (0)
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Ping Ting Chen, Alex Chen, and Regan Chen.
As two groups walked around Hamden’s West Woods neighborhood Sunday afternoon with paper maps and glossy candidate literature, they heard a lot of stories about a familiar topic: taxes.
by | Nov 4, 2019 9:02 am | Comments (0)
Jay Kaye is running for mayor as a Republican in a Democratic town — and he argues that his focus on reining in taxes and government spending can propel him to victory.
by | Nov 3, 2019 3:48 pm | Comments (17)
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Urn Pendragon, Justin Elicker, Corey Evans, Erick Russell, State Rep. Robyn Porter at Sunday GOTV brunch: Harp’s name unspoken.
With 50 hours to go before the polls open, leading Democrats made the case for hitting the streets for mayoral candidate Justin Elicker — without making any case against the incumbent he seeks to unseat.
by | Nov 2, 2019 8:16 pm | Comments (70)
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Harp supporters march down Dixwell Avenue.
Kimber: “White liberal women used the #MeToo movement to self-aggrandize themselves when it came to sexual orientation from men.”
Forty die-hard Toni Harp supporters rallied through Dixwell and Downtown to voice their enthusiasm for the incumbent mayor’s third-party run — and to rebuke a Democratic Party that the mayor said had “desert[ed]” her, “worked against” her, and no longer “represented the people.”
At the rally, a top Harp supporter criticized white women for allegedly acquiescing in a white male political assault on an African-American female mayor.
by | Nov 1, 2019 7:33 am | Comments (8)
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Ward 6 Democratic candidate Carmen Rodriguez and Republican candidate John Carlson.
A clinical social services provider and a fourth-grade teacher are both vying to replace Alder Dolores Colon as she prepares to step down after nearly two decades representing the Hill and City Point on the Board of Alders.
Continue reading ‘Jobs, Sidewalks Anchor City Point Contest’
by | Nov 1, 2019 7:32 am | Comments (3)
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Working Families Party Council candidates Laurie Sweet, Rhonda Caldwell at WNHH FM.
Rhonda Caldwell and Laurie Sweet didn’t form a biracial political ticket by chance. It was part of the point of their running for office.
by | Oct 31, 2019 12:40 pm | Comments (3)
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Challenger Eric Mastroianni, incumbent Alder Anna Festa.
Incumbent East Rock Alder Anna Festa faces a Republican challenge this year from a Cedar Hill native and U.S. Navy veteran in her bid for a fourth two-year term on the Board of Alders.
by | Oct 30, 2019 7:57 am | Comments (31)
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Westville Alder Adam Marchand and challenger Dennis Serfilippi.
Are the Yale’s unions a force for political engagement or obfuscation? Economic uplift or conflicts of interest?
Does the social media app NextDoor promote civic debate and neighborly communication? Or racism and paranoid fear-mongering?
by | Oct 30, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (23)
(Updated)— Democratic mayoral candidate Justin Elicker raised over $52,000 in individual campaign contributions and incumbent Mayor Toni Harp raised nearly $20,000 in individual campaign contributions in the first 27 days of October, according to the latest mayoral campaign finance reports.
Continue reading ‘Round Five: Elicker Raises $52K, Harp $20K’