by | May 22, 2019 1:05 pm | Comments (11)
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Vincent Giordano at Tuesday’s fundraiser, above; below, attendees Peter Porter, Mike DeNicola, Rodney Williams.
After receiving contracts for building new schools and renovating public housing, Giordano Construction repaid the favor by hosting a top-dollar fundraiser for Mayor Toni Harp’s reelection campaign.
by | May 20, 2019 4:25 pm | Comments (14)
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Justin Elicker speaks with teachers at an April fundraiser.
More early childhood education spots. More art classes. More vocational apprenticeships. More professionals on the school board. Less standardized testing. Less top-dollar consulting.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Calls For New Priorities In City Schools’
by | May 17, 2019 12:06 pm | Comments (15)
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Mayoral candidate Poole: Car rental industry has it right.
Mayor Seth Poole would work to give teens the right to vote on the Board of Education — and only people over 25 the chance to be cops.
Continue reading ‘Poole Seeks Younger Voices, Older Rookies’
by | May 16, 2019 12:19 pm | Comments (3)
Clockwise from top left: Tomato pie at Ernies; West River in Edgewood Park; Strange Ways merch; Manjares’ Ana De Los Angeles whips up fresh guacamole.
The most revealing answers at the first debate of the mayoral campaign season — at least about the nature of the candidates and their candidacies — may have had to do with old-school versus new-school tastes in downtime pleasures.
by | May 15, 2019 11:23 pm | Comments (35)
Harp, Hamilton, Elicker at Wednesday night’s debate.
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Urn Pendragon wades through crowd for Oprah-style closing.
The gloves came off at the tail end of the first debate of this year’s mayoral campaign, as candidates established a central theme: Either New Haven has made great progress and should build on it by staying the course. Or its government has gone off the rails and needs drastic change amid looming crises.
by | May 14, 2019 1:19 pm | Comments (8)
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Mayoral hopefuls Justin Elicker, Wendy Hamilton, Urn Pendragon, Toni Harp.
The four candidates who have taken out papers to run for mayor witht he intention of seeking the Democratic Party nomination are scheduled to appear together for their first joint forum— not a debate — Wednesday, May 15.
by | May 14, 2019 7:16 am | Comments (11)
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Garrett announces her mayoral campaign earlier this month.
Hamden should look outside its police department for its next chief — and not pick anyone quite yet.
Continue reading ‘Garrett Calls For Chief From Outside Department’
by | May 13, 2019 3:53 pm | Comments (26)
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Yale should scrap its daytime shuttle service and buy public bus passes for its students and employees.
Democratic mayoral candidate Justin Elicker listed that policy priority in a newly released “Jobs/Economy Platform” that envisions structural changes to the relationship between Yale and the city it calls home.
by | May 10, 2019 3:13 pm | Comments (2)
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A Ward 7 Election Day voting line.
A once-sleepy center-city voting district has emerged as New Haven’s elections powerhouse — with implications for this year’s mayoral election.
by | May 8, 2019 5:10 pm | Comments (39)
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Seth Poole at a Newhallville community management team meeting.
The latest candidate to enter New Haven’s mayoral race pledges to crack down on out-of-town slumlords if elected as the city’s first non-Democratic chief executive in 66 years.
by | May 6, 2019 7:01 am | Comments (10)
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Dixwell activist Valerie McKinnie, who said she did not support Justin Elicker’s previous run, with the candidate Sunday: “We need a change.”
Justin Elicker attracted a crowd of supporters who look like New Haven to the opening of his mayoral campaign headquarters, in part by embracing the causes of some of his opponent’s most public critics.
by | May 3, 2019 6:18 pm | Comments (2)
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New Board of Education student representative-elect Lihame Arouna.
Co-Op sophomore Lihame Arouna will be the newest student representative on the Board of Education, having won Friday’s election 1,531 to 858.
by | May 1, 2019 8:32 pm | Comments (7)
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Standing in front of her kids, their friends, and Hamden Memorial Town Hall’s thick Ionic columns, Hamden Councilwoman Lauren Garrett announced Wednesday afternoon that she hopes to “chart a new course” as the town’s next mayor.
Continue reading ‘Garrett’s Announcement Theme: No More “Business As Usual”’
by | Apr 30, 2019 7:45 am | Comments (4)
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The candidate with campaign manager Gage Frank in background.
Justin Elicker, who plans to challenge Mayor Toni Harp in a Sept. 10 Democratic primary, is about to hire a field director to accelerate getting the word out. He is also about to open a campaign headquarters on Whalley Avenue this Sunday.
By Friday of this week, Elicker should have $35,180 more in the campaign’s bank account to help pay the rent and the salary for those expenses.
Continue reading ‘Elicker’s 1st Public-Financing Payday OK’d’
by | Apr 25, 2019 4:04 pm | Comments (2)
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Resident leader Brenda Harris at the groundbreaking for the first phase of the Farnam Courts redo.
A longtime public-housing tenant leader is looking to bring her talents downtown to City Hall, at least for a while.
by | Apr 25, 2019 7:17 am | Comments (6)
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Urn Pendragon at an affordable-housing rally outside City Hall.
New Haven mayoral candidate Urn Pendragon took a third path from two of her opponents on the question of who should conduct the investigation into the shooting by Hamden and Yale cops of an unarmed couple inside a Honda Civic in Newhallville.
by | Apr 24, 2019 12:05 pm | Comments (12)
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Students graduate from now-shuttered New Horizons, in June 2018.
(News analysis) At her reelection campaign kick-off, Mayor Toni Harp cited four indicators to argue that public schools have improved since she arrived in City Hall.
Official numbers cast doubt on the claim, while other numbers suggest improvement.
by | Apr 15, 2019 7:27 am | Comments (7)
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Elicker on the campaign trail in Dixwell on Saturday.
Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker secured at least four votes on Saturday morning as he canvassed up and down Orchard Street talking jobs, schools, housing, and clean government with working class black voters.
Continue reading ‘Jobs & Schools Top Elicker’s Dixwell Pitch’
by | Apr 13, 2019 3:42 pm | Comments (18)
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Mayor Toni Harp at campaign kick-off.
Harp with supporter Tom Goldenberg and daughter Ainsley.
Toni Harp kicked off her campaign for a fourth term as mayor by urging nearly 300 supporters to stick with an administration that has brought progress in economic development, education and reduced crime.
by | Apr 12, 2019 7:49 am | Comments (19)
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Elicker at East Rock Brewery campaign stop on Thursday.
Over slices from Modern and locally brewed lagers, Justin Elicker promised a roomful of public school teachers that he’ll bring a homegrown corrective plan to the school system if elected mayor.
by | Apr 10, 2019 3:24 pm | Comments (23)
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Elicker donors (from left by row, starting at top): Former city CAO Rob Smuts, Alder Anna Festa, ex-CAO Mike Carter, schools activist Sarah Miller, Alder Abby Roth, ex-U.S. Rep. Bruce Morrison, activist/ City Plan Commissioner Leslie Radcliffe, developer Fereshteh Bekhrad, ex-federal prosecutor Chris Mattei.
Department head/donors Daryl Jones, Dakibu Muley, Gerry Garcia, Steve Fontana, Doug Hausladen, Migdalia Castro, Becky Bombero, John Alston, Carol Birks.
More Yale professors gave money to the Elicker campaign. More city government department heads donated to the Harp camp. Donors came from all over town, with concentrations in both campaigns found Downtown and in Westville.
Those are some takeaways from first-quarter campaign finance reports filed Wednesday by the two leading candidates for the Democratic mayoral nomination, incumbent Toni Harp and challenger Justin Elicker.
by | Apr 9, 2019 11:56 am | Comments (1)
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Ed O’Brien at WNHH FM.
New Haven isn’t the only city around here with a mayoral rematch taking place this year.
Continue reading ‘Seeking Return To City Hall, O’Brien Runs On Record’
by | Apr 9, 2019 5:15 am | Comments (12)
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Elicker at BAR at one last in a flurry of campaign events before the first-quarter deadline.
Justin Elicker raised over $117,000 from individual donors in the first three months of 2019 for his quest to unseat Mayor Toni Harp in this year’s elections, his campaign reported Monday.
by | Apr 1, 2019 8:04 am | Comments (20)
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The candidate leans in at Crown Street bash.
Mayoral candidate Justin Elicker raced to the end of the campaign’s first financial-reporting period with five events in one day, capped with an open “BAR” for 60 volunteers, donors and friends.
by | Apr 1, 2019 7:42 am | Comments (5)
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Mayor Toni Harp joined a group of more than 30 students from all over the city for a “chew and chill” to check in with constituents who she said will one day run New Haven.