Streater, with letter for the Secretary of the State seeking a ruling that "Mr. Trump is ineligible to run for the office of United States President and should not be permitted on any ballot in the State of Connecticut."
A Dixwell/Newhallville alder and a local civil rights lawyer have teamed up to formally ask Connecticut’s top election official to bar Donald Trump from appearing on next year’s presidential primary and general election ballots, given the former president’s role in stoking the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
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Gotham Citi Cafe at 84 Orange St.
A Ninth Square club has been temporarily banned from serving alcohol after cops caught someone who was underaged drinking a Dirty Shirley on scene — and subsequently accused the nightclub’s owners of four counts of selling booze to minors amid months’ worth of other alleged violations.
Judge Doyle: "With voting already having begun and election day approaching, the Purcell principle is applicable to the present case."
A state judge has dismissed mayoral challenger Shafiq Abdussabur’s lawsuit trying to press his way onto the Sept. 12 Democratic primary ballot — on the grounds that the first absentee ballots have already been cast, the election is therefore underway, and changing which candidates are participating now would run “the risk of voter confusion.”
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Aug 29, 2023 8:25 am
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Attorney Eppler-Epstein, with tenant Giovanniello: “Joining a tenants union and negotiating in good faith with your landlord ... are protected activities.”
A tenants union is challenging a series of megalandlord-spurred eviction filings in court, claiming that 16 move-out notices came as retaliation against residents’ organizing efforts.
A New Haven Fire Department lieutenant has been arrested for sexual assault — following a months-long police investigation into a night that the victim told investigators began with consensual sex, and ended with her being raped.
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Officers Baltazar Rivera and Heriberto Rodriguez: "Things escalate so quickly."
When Officer Baltazar Rivera saw three young men biking up James Street at two in the morning — wearing clothing similar to that of the suspects in a shooting that had taken place a few blocks away, a few minutes prior — his instincts kicked in.
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Aug 28, 2023 12:13 pm
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City attorney Rod Williams and city-hired attorney Proloy Das: "Trying to change the ballots now would result in voter disenfranchisement."
What would be a greater affront to the public trust: the court’s intervention in an election already underway, or its adoption of a “pernicious” judicial doctrine allegedly geared towards voter suppression?
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Aug 25, 2023 5:10 pm
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The English Station power plant, hidden behind graffiti, back in May.
United Illuminating will have to pay up for breaking a promise to remediate a Fair Haven power plant after state utility regulators formally accused the company of mismanaging English Station — and of failing to prioritize New Haven residents over profit.
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At Wednesday's anti-eviction tenants union rally.
Tenant Jessica Stamp: Union members know "we are not alone."
City officials, union advocates, and concerned residents gathered outside of Ocean Management’s Whitney Avenue offices to rally against recent action taken by the landlord to evict 15 members of a growing tenants union — and to promise to take action themselves if Ocean doesn’t reconsider.
Police Chief Karl Jacobson on Monday: "This is a tragedy. This is a terrible incident."
(Updated) A 54-year-old New Havener named Sheila Harris died on Wednesday from injuries she sustained during a domestic-violence-fueled double shooting on Shelton Avenue that had already claimed the life of her alleged abuser.
City lawyer Rod Williams and defense attorney Proloy Kumar Das: "The court has no jurisdiction to act in the middle of an election."
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Shafiq Abdussabur: "The people have the jurisdiction."
Voters have begun casting their absentee ballots in September’s Democratic primary for mayor — and a state court shouldn’t intervene in an election already underway.
So argued the lawyer representing New Haven’s registrar of voters, as he urged a state judge to throw out a ballot-access lawsuit filed by mayoral challenger Shafiq Abdussabur.
Mayor Elicker, with the Yale police union handout in his left hand and the 1975 "Fear City" flyer in his right: This is "unbelievably offensive."
Yale first-years Hunter Robbins, Amber Nobriga, Lisa Chou, and Shukraat Adesina give mixed-to-negative reviews of the Yale police union's "Welcome to Yale" survival guide flyer.
Yale’s police union helped introduce first-year students and their families to New Haven this weekend with death-decorated flyers warning them not to go out after dark, to stay on campus, and to avoid using public transportation — inspiring the mayor and a host of top city and Yale officials to denounce the apparent contract negotiation ploy as “shameful” and “unbelievably offensive.”
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Newly sworn in police recruits John Brunetti, Aisaiah Rodriguez, William Massey-Simmons, and Eric Lopez on Monday.
Four police recruits with cops in their families and roots in the Greater New Haven area raised their right hands and swore to live up to the responsibilities of their profession — before heading off for training in Waterbury, and hoped-for careers in New Haven.
Abdussabur: "The extraordinary rejection rate for the candidates of color raises a 'red flag' as to whether uniform standards were applied to all petitioners."
Mayoral challenger Shafiq Abdussabur has filed a lawsuit in state court seeking to get his name on the Sept. 12 Democratic primary ballot — claiming that he did in fact gather enough petition signatures to qualify, contrary to the findings of the city’s registrar of voters.
Police arrested a 21-year-old New Havener and a juvenile Wednesday for allegedly committing a string of early-morning armed robberies that stretched from a Pond Lily Avenue motel to a Whalley Avenue McDonald’s to a Willow Street gas station to a Fair Haven grocery store.
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Aug 15, 2023 5:19 pm
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Gino DiGiovanni (center) outside federal court in New Haven with his attorney, Martin Minnella (at left).
(Updated with details of the government’s case.) Another office-seeker in the midst of a political campaign was charged Tuesday afternoon with breaking the law for his role in the Capitol riot aimed at overturning the 2020 presidential election — this time charged in a proceeding held in a federal courtroom in New Haven.
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Acting Controller Mike Gormany, with Corporation Counsel Patricia King: Budget surplus transfers "would be the primary mechanism for the Cox settlement."
A key panel of alders signed off on $16 million in budget-surplus transfers and, “if necessary,” new city borrowing, in order to cover the uninsured portion of a $45 million police-misconduct-and-paralysis settlement.
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The policy known as “Affirmative Action” is now a thing of the past. On June 29, the Roberts Court, in a highly anticipated decision, killed it. For this writer, it was a horrible decision.
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Aug 14, 2023 12:39 pm
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A seemingly new fence — and new graffiti — at English Station.
A state utility regulator cited growing graffiti and revolving project management as reasons to doubt United Illuminating’s (UI) promise to fix up a long-abandoned and toxic power plant — and as reason to fine the company over $1 million annually until the regional power company follows through on the remediation.
UI, in turn, has shot back against that proposed financial penalty, denying claims of mismanagement, refusing accountability for any vandalism of the site, and accusing the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) of violating due process.
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Aug 11, 2023 12:37 pm
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Clockwise from top left: Fire Chief John Alston, Assistant Chief Orlando Marcano, Assistant Chief Mark Vendetto, and Fire Union President Frank Ricci.
A state judge has ruled against a former assistant fire chief in his years-old lawsuit accusing the department’s head and several ex-coworkers of hostile treatment — after Fire Chief John Alston’s argument that a leaked butt-dial caused the employee no real harm other than “hurt feelings and a bruised ego” won judicial support.
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Jones' adoptive parents, Eddie and Carolyn Whitfield, mourn their late daughter Thursday morning.
Carolyn Whitfield was grocery shopping for a big family cookout when she heard the news that her 22 year-old-daughter, Ciera Jones, had been shot and killed outside her house in the Hill.
That barbecue never happened. Whitfield instead reunited with a crowd of family and friends two years later inside the New Haven Police Department — to hail the arrests of Jones’ suspected killers as a step towards justice served.
Cyberattacks stole around $6 million meant for First Student school buses.
Hackers impersonating the city school district’s chief operating officer succeeded in stealing over $6 million in city funds that were largely meant to pay for New Haven school buses.
With the help of the FBI, the Elicker administration has clawed back more than half of that public money — as the city continues to investigate what exactly went wrong, and how to make sure such a cyberattack doesn’t happen again.
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Keith Petrulis, at DESK presser last December.
(Updated) Keith Petrulis, a 36-year-old advocate for New Haveners experiencing homelessness, was found dead Monday morning outside of the State Street soup kitchen where he was himself a client.
