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Murphy: "Trying to do my small part to help build a national opposition movement against what's happening."
“The old tools are still the new tools,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told a room of Fair Haven healthcare providers and advocates worried about potential Republican-led cuts to Medicaid.
“As much as politics has changed, it is still turnout and protest and volume that makes a difference.”
Alders (except for Sal DeCola, second from left) to Avelo: Cut it out!
Avelo boycott, at the top of the Change.org "popular" list.
Twenty eight of 30 alders signed a letter calling on Avelo Airlines to immediately end any contracts it has to run deportation flights for the Trump administration — while the number of signatures on an online boycott campaign surged past 28,600.
Prof. Jason Stanley and Unitarian Society of New Haven's Rev. Stephen Kendrick
Keep demonstrating and boycotting. Keep doing your job without caving in — such as teaching Black history if you’re a teacher, doing the right thing if you’re a lawyer. And vote, of course, even though that may make no difference, as Trump wants to be president for life.
You may not prevail in any of this, but History is watching, and your grandchildren will ask.
Those were among the sobering take-aways Wednesday night from an hour of remarks and Q and A by Yale Prof. Jason Stanley that drew 200 people to the sun-filled sanctuary of the Unitarian Society of New Haven out on the Hartford Turnpike just over the Hamden border.
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Jonathan D. Salant |
Apr 9, 2025 8:28 pm
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DeLauro, with Senate chief sponsor Michael Bennet: "We need the Child Tax Credit now."
WASHINGTON— As part of their coronavirus stimulus package, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats increased tax credits for working families with and without children.
Sen. Prez Looney: Avelo's actions just the latest example of "caving to government dollars at the expense of human rights."
(Updated) Outrage continued mounting from both the grassroots and elected officials Wednesday against Avelo Airlines’ decision to run deportation flights, as more than 14,000 people (at last check) signed onto a boycott petition.
AG Tong, at Tweed in 2019: "Deeply disappointed" in Avelo.
State Attorney General William Tong has some questions for Avelo Airlines.
Eight questions, to be precise, all in regards to why the budget airline has decided to “profit from and facilitate these atrocities” by running deportation flights for the Trump administration.
Fair Havener Ana Paola Juarez: "Everyone is so on edge in my neighborhood."
Scenes from Saturday's rally on the Green ...
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... where protesters said to Trump and Musk: "Hands off!"
“Let’s talk about hands off,” New Haven Federation of Teachers President Leslie Blatteau said to roughly 2,000 fellow protesters on the Green on Saturday. “First, hands off our curriculum.”
Shelly Altman, from Jewish Voice for Peace, continued, “Hands off the mouths of students who cry out for an end to the genocide in Gaza.”
Gretchen Raffa, from Planned Parenthood, zoomed out further, “Hands off our bodies.”
Climate activist Sena Wazer added, “It is not only about saying ‘hands off’ to the federal administration. It is also about saying ‘step up’ to the last of our elected officials.”
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Jonathan D. Salant |
Mar 26, 2025 6:23 pm
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Journalists who don't have seats jam into the aisle in the White House briefing room Wednesday.
WASHINGTON— For decades, a reporter for The Associated Press would have first dibs to question the White House press secretary during the daily news briefing.
Steve Orosco, at right, filing campaign papers with City Clerk Michael Smart.
An east side Republican jumped into New Haven’s mayoral race Tuesday with a mission to bring Donald Trump’s political momentum to the city’s low-income neighborhoods.
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Matthew Watson |
Mar 24, 2025 9:36 am
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At a recent Veterans Day ceremony on Long Wharf.
(Opinion) I am a U.S. Army veteran, and I am anxious.
Like many others, I signed up to serve a country that promised to care for its veterans. Now, we are watching the Trump administration systematically dismantle the VA, stripping away the very services that keep us alive.
Carrying red, white, and blue signs reading “U.S. MAILNOTFORSALE” and chanting “Whose Post Office? The People’s Post Office,” roughly 15 U.S. postal workers marched down Elm Street to protest a recently announced Trump- and Musk-led effort to slash the service’s workforce and budget.
Mayor Elicker (right): Trump’s administration is “illegally stymieing and setting up roadblocks to cut off funds that we’ve been legally awarded,”
New Haven has joined a second nationwide lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time over the city’s loss of access to tens of millions of dollars in already-allocated grants addressing climate change and clean energy.
Fair Haven Health's Dr. Tejada Arias: Medicaid affects every generation.
Politicians and healthcare providers gathered to send a message that cutting Medicaid is a matter of life and death.
They made the case that at stake is the well-being not only of those insured by the program — including roughly 60,000 New Haveners — but of their families and communities as well.
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Dereen Shirnekhi |
Mar 13, 2025 10:47 am
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A dozen dirt bikes and ATVs seized by city police in May 2020.
Police arrested a 21-year-old who participated in a Long Wharf street takeover — just days after Mayor Justin Elicker testified before the state legislature in support of a bill that would expand penalties for street racing.
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Jonathan D. Salant |
Mar 12, 2025 8:48 pm
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DeLauro (center) in her Capitol office in February, flanked by fellow Appropriations Committee Democrats Mike Quigley of Illinois, Betty McCollum of Minnesota, Lois Frankel of Florida and Ed Case of Hawaii.
WASHINGTON—- A day after the U.S. House voted along party lines to keep the federal government open past Friday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro continued to work the phones Wednesday in a final effort to block the funding bill.
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Jonathan D. Salant |
Mar 3, 2025 7:12 pm
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Linda McMahon at Feb. 14 confirmation hearing.
WASHINGTON— Connecticut businesswoman Linda McMahon was confirmed along party lines Monday as the 13th U.S. secretary of education even as she said she would “wholeheartedly” support President Donald Trump’s efforts to shut down the cabinet agency.
Anna Salemme and Lyudmyla Kobylyanska at Sunday's mass.
Three years after Russia invaded Ukraine — and began a war that President Trump now falsely claims Ukraine started — 75 people gathered on George Street for a somber Sunday mass to try to figure out how best to support the country they love in such tumultuous times.
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Jonathan D. Salant |
Feb 20, 2025 1:09 pm
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McMahon and Murphy, at confirmation hearing.
Washington — The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted along party lines Thursday to confirm Linda McMahon as the next education secretary as Democrats said she would be the last person to hold the post of a cabinet agency President Donald Trump wants to disband.
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Feb 17, 2025 9:15 am
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Eco-friendly affordable housing on Dixwell: More, please.
With the Connecticut General Assembly’s legislative session in full swing, New Haven’s eight state lawmakers are pushing 184 different bills that touch on everything from growing housing near transit to digging deep on thermal energy to requiring movie theaters to disclose what time the films, and not just the trailers, actually start.
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Jonathan D. Salant |
Feb 13, 2025 5:02 pm
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Murphy (right) to McMahon (left) at Thursday's hearing: Possibility of revoking funding for schools with programming based on ethnic or racial identity is "chilling."
WASHINGTON — After grilling her at a confirmation hearing, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said Thursday he is a “hell no” on confirming Connecticut businesswoman Linda McMahon to be U.S. secretary of education, saying President Donald Trump’s executive order curbing diversity programs would result in the beleaguered agency “micromanaging” public school curricula.
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Zachary Groz |
Feb 11, 2025 3:52 pm
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Donovan: Don't let DOJ "dox" its own FBI agents.
A New Haven and Bridgeport law firm has catapulted into the thick of a nationwide effort to halt the Trump administration’s purging of the executive branch and retaliation against career federal officials who investigated the president and Jan. 6 rioters.
