by | Sep 8, 2013 4:57 pm | Comments (7)
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Two days before New Haven Democrats go to the polls for a four-way mayoral primary, a cartoon hero arrived on the scene to lift a club to a tetra-headed villain known as the “political establishment.”
Continue reading ‘“Your Days Of Trampling The People Are Over!”’
by | Sep 8, 2013 4:42 pm | Comments (10)
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Henry Fernandez assembled a dozen core supporters on his East Pearl Street porch Sunday to make, in turns, the closing argument for his candidacy in Tuesday’s four-way Democratic mayoral primary.
Continue reading ‘A Core Dozen Make Fernandez Closing Argument’
by | Sep 7, 2013 3:18 pm | Comments (12)
Three days before voters head to the polls, mayoral candidate Toni Harp Saturday dispatched 300 volunteers across the city, targeting 11,000 voters her campaign has identified as likely supporters.
by | Sep 6, 2013 6:10 pm | Comments (27)
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Standing in front of a housing project plagued by mold and leaky roofs, mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez blasted rival Toni Harp’s proposal to dismantle the city agency that enforces housing code violations.
by | Sep 6, 2013 3:54 pm | Comments (9)
In her first public debate, aldermanic challenger and Yale undergraduate Ella Wood faced a pointed question from a downtowner she’s running to represent: Will you be in New Haven to help in the winter when the roads need snowplowing – or home in New Mexico?
Continue reading ‘Ella Wood Confronts Skeptics In Downtown Debate’
by | Sep 6, 2013 3:09 pm | Comments (21)
Just days before voters head to the polls, Toni Harp Friday released a video ad that plays up her quest to be New Haven’s first female mayor—and dismisses her three male opponents as an “old boys club.”
by | Sep 6, 2013 2:38 pm | Comments (18)
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Carolina would assign New Haven the story of three men who overcame obstacles to success.
Fourth of four parts on where mayoral candidates stand on major issues.
The four Democratic mayoral candidates have books ready to assign all of New Haven to read — and some competing ideas about how to improve the schools.
Continue reading ‘Candidates Differ On Paths To School Reform’
by | Sep 6, 2013 11:00 am | Comments (54)
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One candidate wants to cut the number of firefighters in half. The other wants to keep them.
That’s one debate fueling a hotly contested aldermanic race in East Rock and Newhallville.
by | Sep 6, 2013 8:53 am | Comments (1)
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As a staffer in the registrar’s office, Helen Powell spent decades helping her Dixwell neighbors register to vote. Now she’s encouraging them to cast those votes — for her.
Continue reading ‘Q House Looms Large In 3-Way Dixwell Race’
by | Sep 5, 2013 3:59 pm | Comments (45)
Mayoral candidate Toni Harp marshaled Morris Cove troops Thursday to defend their local fire station from what she claimed was a threat of closure.
by | Sep 5, 2013 8:22 am | Comments (52)
Under fire for collecting thousands of dollars from special interest groups, mayoral candidate Toni Harp in turn took aim at the city’s clean elections program for allowing “sore losers” to keep running without “clean hands.”
by | Sep 4, 2013 4:41 pm | Comments (16)
Kermit Carolina appears only momentarily and utters only one sentence in his new campaign commercial: a tag line stating he paid for video. Otherwise, he lets the camera — and his target voters — tell the story.
by | Sep 4, 2013 4:32 pm | Comments (40)
Two candidates raised three-quarters of their cash outside of town in July and August. Two candidates did the opposite.
Of the money raised in New Haven, only one candidate pulled in contributions from all corners of the city.
by | Sep 4, 2013 12:02 pm | Comments (21)
Second of four parts on where mayoral candidates stand on major issues.
One candidate caught up with the teen who stole his bike; one had his car window smashed after shooing away a drug-user from in front of his home. Another candidate was caught breaking the law himself. All drew lessons about crime in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Candidates Differ On Speed Limit, Narc Unit’
by | Sep 4, 2013 8:29 am | Comments (37)
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How much does that young man weigh? Enough to take on the city unions and solve a pension crisis?
by | Sep 3, 2013 4:47 pm | Comments (42)
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Campaign treasurer Hilda Kilpatrick and candidate Harp at City Clerk’s office Tuesday.
(Updated with major donor lists.) Mayoral candidate Toni Harp raised a whopping $176,082 in the last two months — and spent it just as fast.
by | Sep 3, 2013 11:01 am | Comments (14)
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The candidates vow tougher action at problem properties like Church Street South.
First of four parts on mayoral candidates’ stands on major issues.
When New Haven’s next mayor takes office, Church Street South might be in line for an upscale makeover. The doomed Star Supply project may get a second life. And City Hall might try to revive an old idea: housing co-ops.
Continue reading ‘New Housing, Slumlords On Next Mayor’s Agenda’
by | Sep 3, 2013 8:20 am | Comments (4)
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“Your current alderman voted to sell streets to Yale,” Greg Smith told a Dwight neighbor during a front-porch aldermanic election pitch. He vowed to bring “healthy debate” to the Board of Aldermen, to push back against the labor-backed super-majority that sold off High and Wall streets to plug a budget hole.
His opponent, incumbent Alderman Frank Douglass, said he’s part of a team that has brought needed voices to local government.
Continue reading ‘Dwight Face-Off Centers On Labor Majority’s Role’
by | Sep 3, 2013 8:15 am | Comments (24)
Why would a movie star come to New Haven, twice, to endorse a mayoral candidate?
Danny Glover can explain.
Continue reading ‘With Glover At His Side, Fernandez Pitches Idealism’
by | Sep 2, 2013 2:47 pm | Comments (11)
Asked what distinguishes her from the other three Democratic mayoral candidates, Toni Harp offered a single noun.
Continue reading ‘Harp Tells Yalies “Experience” Sets Her Apart’
by | Sep 2, 2013 2:40 pm | Comments (10)
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Labor Day morning found Kermit Carolina and Justin Elicker running hard, as usual — but not just for mayor.
by | Sep 2, 2013 9:56 am | Comments (8)
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Challenger DePalma and incumbent Constantinople.
The race for alderwoman at the Bella Vista senior complex has a new issue to add to how to get bocce courts resurfaced: How to get absentee ballots in time for next week’s primary election to over 120 people are temporarily homeless due to a fire.
by | Aug 30, 2013 3:05 pm | Comments (10)
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Raymond Wallace leaves the city clerk’s office Friday.
An aldermanic campaign that began on the basketball courts of the Hill ended over salad at the Greek Olive, as a fledgling “Take Back New Haven” slate lost another candidate.
Continue reading ‘“Take Back” Slate Loses Another Candidate’
by | Aug 29, 2013 4:57 pm | Comments (24)
Four years after Connecticut’s General Assembly officially apologized for slavery, Toni Harp read that apology aloud to the great-great granddaughter of Charlotte McClee.
Continue reading ‘On Behalf Of State, Toni Harp Says “Sorry”’
by | Aug 29, 2013 4:51 pm | Comments (3)
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(Theater review) When candidates go into a theater, it’s fair to expect drama. And if the advertising for it also looked a bit like a playbill for a prize fight, well, intellectual fisticuffs must be coming our way.
Continue reading ‘Theater Critic Saw Monologues, Not Dialogue’