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Matthew Watson |
Jan 23, 2025 3:14 pm
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Inauguration Day protest outside City Hall.
(Opinion) Local government is at the center of a contentious national conversation about immigration.
Many cities across the United States, including New Haven, have adopted sanctuary policies, limiting the role of local law enforcement in federal immigration policy. These orders are not just acts of political defiance; they are deeply rooted in constitutional principles, practical governance and the need to build trust between local authorities and the communities they serve.
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Zachary Groz |
Jan 23, 2025 9:50 am
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Barber: “We’re going to have to engage in some of this kind of moral imaginative activism in the days to come.”
According to pastor and civil rights activist William Barber II, there’s one word that American politicians have refused to say in recent years –– and their refusal to do so has plunged the country into an ongoing political crisis, dividing it along racial lines and delivering it on a silver platter to a handful of “oligarchs.”
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Nathaniel Rosenberg |
Jan 22, 2025 7:57 pm
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Elicker: “What world are we in right now where, because of a disagreement on policy, the Trump administration is threatening arresting local officials? That's something you see in Iran, that's something you see in Russia, and I guess that's something we see in America right now, but that's really sad.”
The Trump administration might try to criminally prosecute local officials who stand in the way of its mass deportation efforts — but Mayor Justin Elicker isn’t worried about being locked up.
After all, he stressed, there’s a big difference between not participating in federal immigration raids and actively trying to prevent them.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 22, 2025 12:36 pm
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Frank Redente, Jr. (right), with Lombard's Ruben Mallma, on the 2023 campaign trial: "Still a lot to do."
Frankie Redente just turned 50, he just bought a house two blocks from his grandma’s old apartment, and he just filed to run for a second two-year term as Fair Haven alder — with a promised focus on keeping neighborhood parks clean.
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Dereen Shirnekhi |
Jan 21, 2025 4:19 pm
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Kica Matos: Trump's executive orders "should offend any American who believes in our Constitution and our democracy."
Connecticut has joined 17 states in suing President Donald Trump to challenge an executive order to end birthright citizenship — just one of a slate of executive orders signed by the new president that a national immigrant rights activist based in New Haven describes as “comprehensive, cruel and shocking in scope.”
That’s why the program’s board voted to request $60,000 from the mayor’s upcoming Fiscal Year 2025 – 2026 budget to fund a pilot program for citywide seats, including City Clerk, Registrar of Voters and Board of Education.
Punk rocker Paul Heriot, at left, with fellow Trump supporters at Monday's downtown New Haven inaugural watch party.
A rebel roar arose from a Temple Street bar in the People’s Republic of New Haven as Donald Trump took the oath of office Monday as America’s 47th president.
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Nathaniel Rosenberg |
Jan 16, 2025 4:23 pm
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Newly elected board Chair Lesley Heffel-McGuirk (left): "I feel very strongly about the Democracy Fund, and about democracy in general."
Mayoral candidates can now raise less money from individual contributors, and put a lot less of their own money into campaigns, if they want to receive a public grant and matching funds through the city’s public financing program.
(Hartford) Mayor Justin Elicker and Supt. Madeline Negrón made the trip to the state’s capital Monday — to stand alongside mayors and superintendents from Bridgeport, Stamford, Waterbury, and Hartford and deliver a collective call for state government to up its public education funding by $545 million.
Democratic New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s party will be out of power when Congress resumes next month. On Thursday, she gave a taste of how she’ll still look to have an impact on the work that does or doesn’t get done.
House Democrats have elected U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, allowing her to continue serving as the top Democrat on a committee responsible for allocating federal dollars.
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Jabez Choi and Thomas Breen |
Nov 19, 2024 8:33 pm
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Hogan (fifth from left) with supporters after Tuesday's win.
(Updated) Gary Hogan will be the next alder representing Beaver Hills’ Ward 28, after the neighborhood’s Democratic ward committee co-chair won Tuesday’s special election to fill the seat left vacant following Alder Tom Ficklin’s unexpected death in October.
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Thomas Breen |
Nov 13, 2024 8:47 am
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More than 38,000 New Haveners voted in last week’s presidential election — which was 4,000 fewer than voted four years ago, marking a drop in overall citywide turnout from 66 to 63 percent.
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Matthew Watson |
Nov 11, 2024 1:21 pm
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(Opinion) In recent years, Democrats have gained a reputation for being the party that champions social issues, focusing on everything from LGBTQ rights to racial justice. These are essential causes, but after this election cycle, it’s becoming more apparent that this approach alone isn’t resonating with voters as it once did.
The data shows that American voters are overwhelmingly concerned about their economic well-being — not just in terms of their wages but also their ability to afford housing, access healthcare, and support their families.
For Democrats to truly regain power and effectively challenge the conservative narratives that dominate today, they need to prioritize economic inequality as their central platform.
How did Donald Trump manage to convince more Americans from all walks of life, including Black and Latino voters, to cast ballots for his 2024 presidential election than he or other Republicans had for a generation?
