by | Aug 19, 2019 2:19 pm | Comments (11)
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Hamden’s schools are playing catch-up with the 21st century. Roxana Walker-Canton wants to help.
Continue reading ‘Social Justice Inspires School Board Quest’
by | Aug 16, 2019 12:37 pm | Comments (15)
The Democracy Fund approved another $19,060 Thursday night in public money for Justin Elicker’s campaign for the Democratic mayoral nomination.
by | Aug 15, 2019 8:52 pm | Comments (3)
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Fire crew carries a K2 victim from the Green.
(Opinion) One year later, the memory of chilling emergency calls from the New Haven Green, describing more, more, and still more overdose cases, stirs an emotional response.
Continue reading ‘On K-2 Poisoning Anniversary, Street Outreach Still Key’
by | Aug 15, 2019 2:55 pm | Comments (6)
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Mayor Toni Harp.
The Greater New Haven Central Labor Council has endorsed Mayor Toni Harp in her reelection bid, granting the mayor her fourth labor nod of support in two weeks.
by | Aug 15, 2019 12:25 pm | Comments (1)
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Mayor Leng at the Hamden Democratic Party convention.
One small city can’t stop America’s gun-violence crisis. It can play a small part.
by | Aug 15, 2019 7:47 am | Comments (15)
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Emergency crews tend to poisoned drug users on the Green last Aug. 15.
(Opinion)—Today marks the one-year anniversary of a mass-K2-poisoning in a 24-hour period on the New Haven Green. Within days, national media swarmed the Green, hijacked the conversation and used our city to sensationalize the drug overdose epidemic sweeping our country.
Continue reading ‘A Year After K-2 Poisonings, Strategy Offered On Substance Abuse’
by | Aug 14, 2019 1:07 pm | Comments (5)
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Germano Kimbro on his front porch on Spring Street.
Germano Kimbro envisions a New Haven in which neighborhoods grow their own food and kids learn how to fly drones at school. He promises to fight for this vision as an alder if his Hill neighbors send him to the Board of Alders.
by | Aug 13, 2019 6:46 pm | Comments (14)
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Local 34 President Laurie Kennington, carpenters union rep Ernest Pagan, Mayor Toni Harp at Tuesday afternoon’s endorsement.
One of the season’s shortest campaign events — and one of the most significant so far — took place Tuesday afternoon on College Street.
by | Aug 13, 2019 3:03 pm | Comments (13)
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State Sen. Gary Winfield.
“Listen better” and “accept blame.” Offer concrete solutions.
New Haven State Sen. Gary Winfield offered those pieces of advice, respectively, to Mayor Toni Harp and her Democratic primary opponent, Justin Elicker.
by | Aug 12, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (15)
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Mayor Harp accepts the endorsement from the carpenters union.
Mayor Toni Harp snagged her second labor endorsement in two days with an official letter of support from a local carpenter’s union.
Continue reading ‘Carpenters Back Harp; Bluegrass Trio Backs Elicker’
by | Aug 9, 2019 12:27 pm | Comments (21)
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The clock struck 4 — and Eddie Gist was still waiting for the doors to open.
by | Aug 9, 2019 7:46 am | Comments (10)
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Lauren Garrett at WNHH FM.
Lauren Garrett logged in 15,000 steps walking six miles a day, and she’s not complaining. In fact, she said, she feels energized. And she’s keeping going.
by | Aug 8, 2019 8:05 pm | Comments (5)
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32BJ marching outside City Hall.
The local branch of a national janitors, security officers, and building service employees union has endorsed Mayor Toni Harp in her reelection bid.
by | Aug 7, 2019 5:08 pm | Comments (14)
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Seth Poole at a campaign forum.
Three candidates have submitted petitions to run as independent candidates in the Nov. 5 mayoral election — while a fourth appears to have missed that deadline.
Continue reading ‘Hamilton, Pendragon, Elicker Make Deadline For Indy Petitions’
by | Aug 5, 2019 2:09 pm | Comments (17)
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Jason Bartlett with Mayor Harp.
Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker called on the Harp administration Monday to fire its youth services chief rather than keeping him on a costly indefinite leave of absence.
by | Aug 5, 2019 12:27 pm | Comments (7)
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Incumbent O’Brien; challenger Shomaker.
The former majority leader of Hamden’s Legislative Council is looking to return to the board after a stint making the town greener.
by | Aug 5, 2019 7:53 am | Comments (7)
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Tyisha Walker-Myers, Frank Douglass and Evette Hamilton at joint annouhncemnt
Affordable housing and public safety are among the main concerns for the a team of alders who call themselves the “Three Musketeers” and are seeking another two years in office.
by | Aug 2, 2019 7:36 am | Comments (10)
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Justin Elicker at a recent mayoral candidate forum.
The city should collaborate with Yale-New Haven Health to create a hospital-sponsored housing fund with the understanding that homelessness is not just a housing issue, but a public health issue as well.
That’s one of the policy priorities included in mayoral challenger Justin Elicker’s newly released “Housing for All” platform.
by | Jul 31, 2019 4:44 pm | Comments (9)
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Elicker gives senior citizens high fives at meeting.
Dixwell seniors don’t want to have to climb down a perilously steep, concrete stairwell every time they want to use the back entrance to their weekly meeting room.
On Wednesday afternoon, elderly prospective voters from a group associated with the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center quizzed mayoral challenger Justin Elicker on what exactly he would do, if elected, to help improve safe access to their communal gathering space.
by | Jul 31, 2019 10:06 am | Comments (2)
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Lauren Garrett at her campaign kick off.
Mayoral challenger Lauren Garrett has qualified for the Democratic Primary ballot in her bid to unseat incumbent Hamden Mayor Curt Leng.
by | Jul 31, 2019 8:05 am | Comments (5)
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Laurie Sweet with daughter Olivia.
Galvanized by a recent officer-involved shooting in Newhallville, two registered Democrats are vying to replace the only two Republicans on the Hamden Legislative Council by running on a third-party ticket.
Continue reading ‘2 Hamden Dems Running On 3rd Party Ticket’
by | Jul 29, 2019 12:47 pm | Comments (7)
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Elicker, Frank review paperwork at Registrar of Voters Office.
September’s Democratic Party primary for mayor will have at least two candidates on the ballot now that challenger Justin Elicker has officially qualified with over 2,000 verified signatures.
by | Jul 29, 2019 7:39 am | Comments (11)
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Delphine Clyburn at Sunday’s announcement.
Delphine Clyburn celebrated a recent groundswell of community and political engagement in Newhallville on Sunday as she kicked off her campaign for reelection as Ward 20 alder.
Continue reading ‘Clyburn Seeks Fifth Term, Running On Community Power’
by | Jul 27, 2019 11:10 pm | Comments (0)
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Cotton candy and inflatable castles came to a Fitch Street parking lot on Saturday afternoon at a block party outside Mayor Toni Harp’s campaign office co-hosted by a longstanding motorcycle club.
by | Jul 27, 2019 9:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Jill Marks.
Jill Marks said she wants to keep bringing park improvements, speed bumps, jobs, and a spirit of unity to Ward 28 — and asked voters to help her do that by electing her to a third two-year term on the Board of Alders.