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Candidate Jamell Cotto outside the Greek Olive.
A challenger has entered the race for a Board of Education seat, an election that could serve as a referendum on where the school district is headed after the mayor’s controversial chairmanship.
by | Nov 10, 2015 4:31 pm | Comments (1)
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Republican Ugonna Eze had a front-row seat Tuesday for a recount of the votes in the Ward 1 election he lost last week to incumbent Democratic Alder Sarah Eidelson. He wasn’t expecting a miracle.
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School board member-elect Edward Joyner with Shirley Joyner at Mayor Harp’s victory party Tuesday night.
The votes were barely counted Tuesday night in New Haven’s first school-board elections when the first signs of trouble appeared for Superintendent of Schools Garth Harries.
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Two years after a grueling, close campaign, Mayor Toni Harp won a second term with 89 percent of the vote Tuesday, in part by making converts — or at least neutralizing critics — in East Rock, Westville and the East Shore.
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Alder Richard Furlow readies Ward 27 canvassing for Harp’s reelection campaign.
Polls open at voting stations citywide at 6 a.m. Tuesday and close at 8 p.m., as New Haveners select a mayor, alders, and first-ever elected Board of Education members.
by | Nov 1, 2015 9:16 am | Comments (5)
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Keitezulu, Harp, Smith.
If elected New Haven’s next mayor, Ron Smith plans to call Bill Gates and ask him to start a “computer chip company” in the Dixwell neighborhood as part of a way to boost the black community’s fortunes.
by | Oct 30, 2015 7:11 am | Comments (3)
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Smith, Keitezulu: “Miracle Mets”?
When new data showed that cops stop black motorists more often than white motorists while finding less contraband on them, Ron Smith and Sundiata Keitezulu weren’t surprised. They’d been there.
Continue reading ‘Mayoral Candidates Recount Driving While Black’
by | Oct 26, 2015 11:34 am | Comments (0)
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Cassetti.
The two candidates vying for mayor in Ansonia meet face to face — and voice to voice for the public — Monday on WNHH radio’s “Valley Navel Gazing” for a debate moderated by Valley Independent Sentinelreporter. Ethan Fry.
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Ward 1 candidates Eidelson, Eze.
Republicans called for more public financing for elections. Democrats didn’t.
by | Oct 16, 2015 10:15 am | Comments (0)
To listen to Monday’s mayoral debate—which featured Democratic incumbent Toni Harp and independent challengers Ron Smith and Sundiata Keitezulu — click on the above sound file.
by | Oct 13, 2015 7:40 am | Comments (28)
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Harp, Smith and Keitezulu at Monday night’s debate.
Invoking a racist put-down by one of her teachers, Mayor Toni Harp said she took on the role of Board of Education president to move the city toward inspiring kids instead of failing them.
Mayoral contenders Ron Smith and Sundiata Keitezulu called the move a conflict of interest.
Continue reading ‘At Debate, Harp Defends Ed Board Presidency’
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O’Connell: If I don’t do it …
The Republican running for a seat on New Haven’s Board of Education found a way to interest kids in science: Encouraging them to commit murder.
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Candidates Smith, Keitezulu, Harp.
New Haven does officially have a mayoral race this year — and you can watch it live on television.
by | Sep 27, 2015 1:01 pm | Comments (0)
Pundits Turner, Ugly, Rawls-Ivy.
Even by American political standards, Bridgeport’s mayoral race is growing more bizarre by the day. Lennie Grimaldi thinks he found one explanation in the comment of a voter.
Continue reading ‘“Effective Felon” Outfoxes “Ineffective Liar”’
by | Sep 23, 2015 8:46 am | Comments (4)
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Voters in half of New Haven won’t get to choose among candidates for the Board of Education after all.
by | Sep 18, 2015 1:51 pm | Comments (4)
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Pundits Ugly (left) & Rawls-Ivy.
The detention of an African Muslim 14-year-old student who brought a homemade alarm clock to school in Irving, Texas, sparked a New Haven debate on metal detector.
by | Sep 16, 2015 8:00 pm | Comments (9)
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DeCola, Proto at Morris Cove polls: Guess who won.
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Clyburn, center, celebrating with Newhallville supporters.
Candidates backed by Yale’s UNITE HERE unions swept to victory in Democratic Party primaries Tuesday for seats on the Board of Alders.
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Pundits Turner, Rawls-Ivy, Ugly, and Ricks.
Is it democracy in action when labor-affiliated New Haveners work on political campaigns? Or pursuit of a narrow anti-democratic agenda?
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Spears (above left), the Donald; Antunes (below left).
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Like Donald Trump, Richard Spears said he is not part of the political “establishment” — unlike his opponent.
That opponent, Gerald Antunes said, he is emerging from political retirement because unlike with Donald Trump, the public can’t find Richard Spears.
by | Sep 4, 2015 12:12 pm | Comments (11)
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Eidelson, Stark.
One of the city’s most hotly contest primaries centers on where an alder should spend most of her or his time — at City Hall, or two blocks away on Yale’s campus.
by | Sep 2, 2015 7:32 am | Comments (13)
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Lee at Eastern Terrace site in shadow of Bella Vista.
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A police substation is expected to open soon at the Bella Vista senior housing complex — and, Barbara Constantinople hopes, pave the way for her reelection as a Fair Haven Heights alder.
Meanwhile, Robert Lee, the man trying to unseat her, said he’s running not against her, but against a union that he believes has too much influence on city government.
by | Aug 31, 2015 9:40 am | Comments (14)
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Kennington: “It’s a good time in the city.”
One of the city’s most influential political campaign-backers has endorsed six candidates for alder — bypassing two of its own in the process.
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Fair Haven doesn’t need a change in leadership, Santiago Berrios-Bones argues.
by | Aug 26, 2015 10:21 am | Comments (5)
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Burwell gets Lloyd’s vote.
Thomas Burwell called up to a woman standing on her balcony on Houston Street in Fair Haven: “Do you speak English?”
by | Aug 25, 2015 4:09 pm | Comments (20)
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Alder Claudette Robinson-Thorpe might be sporting a cast on her left foot, but she’s not letting it dampen her plans to fight to keep her seat on the Board of Alders.