by | Aug 14, 2013 6:41 pm | Comments (22)
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As a “gray tsunami” crashes over New Haven in coming years, the city may be able to turn it to good use, by converting a wave of retirees into a silver-hair cadre of volunteers deployed to libraries and schools.
Continue reading ‘At Debate, Fernandez Pitches Senior Service Corps’
by | Aug 14, 2013 8:01 am | Comments (28)
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Stratton: “I was wrong.”
Weeks after bashing them at a public rally, aldermanic candidate Mike Stratton met with leaders of Yale’s clerical union and told them: “I want to be one of your soldiers.”
Stratton made that statement in the basement of the College Street headquarters of UNITE HERE Local 34, where he and 13 others made pitches to
union leaders.
Continue reading ‘Local 34-Basher Repents, As Union Vets Pols’
by | Aug 12, 2013 5:16 pm | Comments (52)
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Ella Wood and her former Ward 2 home.
Josh Erlanger’s tenants at 215 Dwight St. called him to ask, apologetically, to break a lease just two months after moving in. A couple days later, he found out why: So that one of them, Ella Wood, could move to a different ward to run for office.
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by | Aug 12, 2013 4:10 pm | Comments (28)
50 “solutions” so far; 25 to come. Over 1,000 contributors. 77 percent from New Haven. 28 days to go.
by | Aug 12, 2013 12:30 pm | Comments (26)
A figure from New Haven’s black political history books added his voice to the endorsement chorus for Toni Harp, calling her candidacy “indeed appropriate.”
by | Aug 9, 2013 8:11 am | Comments (34)
“How many of you know about Kingstree, South Carolina?” mayoral candidate Kermit Carolina asked.
“That’s my home!” called out a voice from the crowd.
“That’s your home? OK. So you understand,” Carolina replied.
by | Aug 8, 2013 3:57 pm | Comments (14)
Candidates Toni Harp and Michael Smart rebounded from a technical snafu and claimed the top spot on the Democratic primary ballot, the registrar of voters confirmed Thursday.
by | Aug 8, 2013 8:42 am | Comments (35)
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(Updated) Just “a couple days” after moving into downtown’s Ward 7, Yale undergrad Ella Wood showed up at the Hall of Records to challenge the incumbent alderman for his seat.
by | Aug 7, 2013 1:51 pm | Comments (48)
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Henry Fernandez files to run in the general election.
Three mayoral candidates converged on the Hall of Records Wednesday to claim their spots on a September primary ballot — and on a second ballot in November, too.
Continue reading ‘Mayoral Hopefuls Claim Spots On 2 Ballots’
by | Aug 7, 2013 8:22 am | Comments (11)
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Blango and Clyburn.
Two years after Delphine Clyburn defeated him at the polls, former Alderman Charles Blango has launched a comeback campaign with a vow to point cameras at neighborhood crime, move the police firing range, and stop the city from snatching tax scofflaws’ cars out of their driveways.
by | Aug 6, 2013 4:41 pm | Comments (6)
Before Nathan Sokoloff would give his signature to help mayoral candidate Henry Fernandez get on the ballot before a Wednesday deadline, he gave him the third degree — about whether Fernandez will embrace nanotechnology to revive New Haven manufacturing.
by | Aug 2, 2013 2:38 pm | Comments (29)
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As he dropped out of the mayor’s race and endorsed Toni Harp, Newhallville plumber Sundiata Keitazulu said he might run again in the future, for alderman — or governor.
Continue reading ‘You Haven’t Heard The Last Of Sundiata Keitazulu’
by | Aug 2, 2013 8:15 am | Comments (52)
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In a visit to a struggling senior complex suddenly in the mayoral campaign spotlight, candidate Toni Harp promised Catherine Canady air — so she can breathe.
by | Aug 1, 2013 8:29 am | Comments (51)
Candidate Justin Elicker decries sugary school breakfast …
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… then offers rivals his home-laid eggs.
Corner stores stop selling candy near schools, and put fresh fruits and vegetables for sale on the sidewalks. The city, now a well-respected center for fresh seafood, collects your compost at the curb. New Haven’s ice cream trucks have been reined and its wriggly “livestock” has been put to work. And a new food policy czar oversees it all.
New Haven would look like that based on what the candidates for mayor suggested at their latest debate.
by | Jul 31, 2013 5:15 pm | Comments (9)
Two members of Justin Elicker’s mayoral campaign took a wrong turn Thursday — and ended up looking for ballot petition signatures in the headquarters of one of his main rivals.
by | Jul 31, 2013 8:02 am | Comments (8)
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Keitazulu, Harp and Fernandez at the panel discussion.
They’re on board with the program.
They want more housing for the 100 people returning to New Haven from prison every month.
They want more job opportunities for them.
Continue reading ‘Candidates Line Up Behind Prison Reentry Agenda’
by | Jul 30, 2013 6:08 pm | Comments (31)
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Toni Harp turned last week’s mishap into a rousing “Tally Rally” as her campaign turned in over 4,800 signatures of voters — twice the number needed — to get her name on the Democratic mayoral ballot.
by | Jul 30, 2013 8:47 am | Comments (36)
Cavaliere at the union’s July 9 mayoral debate at the Marchegian Club.
New Haven Police Union Local 530 Tuesday morning announced its endorsement of the mayoral candidacy of Toni Harp.
by | Jul 29, 2013 8:06 am | Comments (86)
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Harp with state Rep. Pat Dillon Sunday.
Elicker politics amid produce.
Amid Westvilleans hunting for farm-fresh veggies, Justin Elicker fielded an urban pioneer’s pained questions about pre‑K admissions while Toni Harp picked up local tomatoes — and, with some effort, uttered the word “I.”
by | Jul 26, 2013 7:12 pm | Comments (22)
Under a Harp administration, retired building official Andy Rizzo would have to register as a lobbyist before he could seek zoning relief on behalf of a housing agency, and the city’s Board of Ethics would have more power to go after him if he lobbied improperly.
by | Jul 26, 2013 3:19 pm | Comments (34)
The door had a new lock. Tenants got new keys. A stranger got into the building anyway — until he was caught on the stairs on his way to a suspected drug-dealing apartment.
by | Jul 26, 2013 2:17 pm | Comments (31)
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In a conference call Friday afternoon with the city’s mayoral campaigns, state officials issued a much-awaited ruling: Candidate Toni Harp has not broken the law by teaming up with a city clerk candidate to get her name on the ballot.
by | Jul 26, 2013 7:32 am | Comments (23)
In the wake of a blunder that cost the Democratic Party’s endorsed candidates automatic slots on the Sept. 10 primary ballot, one Edgewood activist called on the party’s town chairwoman to resign.
Continue reading ‘Greer Calls For James To Resign As DTC Chair’
by | Jul 25, 2013 2:58 pm | Comments (2)
On a day of election season slip-ups, the blunders turned out to be bipartisan.
by | Jul 25, 2013 2:48 pm | Comments (63)
(Updated 7:36 p.m.) Mayoral candidate Toni Harp dispatched a spirited overflow crowd at her headquarters Thursday night to hit the streets with petitions to get her name on the Democratic primary ballot — after an embarrassing blunder removed her name from it.
Continue reading ‘After DTC Blunder, Harp Launches Petition Drive’