by | Oct 30, 2023 12:59 pm | Comments (11)
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U.S. Rep. DeLauro: "Elections have consequences."
“An anti-democracy zealot” committed to slashing social welfare and rolling back rights for gay people and women has risen to the highest rank of the U.S. House of Representatives.
A man “prepared to foist his religious beliefs on everyone else.”
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by | Oct 30, 2023 11:01 am | Comments (58)
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Mayor Elicker: "We cannot wait another 20 years to have a government that runs effectively and efficiently."
Confident in a victory at the polls in November’s contested mayoral election, Democrats from across the city and state turned their attention to a more uncertain proposition: a charter revision ballot question that, if approved, would increase mayoral and aldermanic terms from two to four years each.
by | Oct 27, 2023 1:46 pm | Comments (9)
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Ward 12 Democratic alder candidate Theresa Morant.
A New Haven native and Yale New Haven Hospital secretary is running unopposed to become the next alder for Ward 12 — with a focus on finding some way to calm traffic on the neighborhood’s car-crazy stretch of Rt. 80.
Continue reading ‘Rt. 80 Traffic Top Of Mind For Next Ward 12 Alder’
by , , and | Oct 27, 2023 11:11 am | Comments (5)
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Board President Tyisha Walker-Myers (right) and colleagues remember late Alders Renee Haywood and Andrea Jackson-Brooks.
The 12th annual Black and Hispanic Caucus gala honored community stalwarts both living and gone, in a night of dancing, selfies, hugs, and tears.
Continue reading ‘Thru Grief & Joy, Gala Honors Public Servants’
by | Oct 26, 2023 8:40 am | Comments (22)
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Alder Sal DeCola and challenger Lisa Milone when they competed for the same alder seat in 2015.
A (successful) petition urging write-in candidate Campion: "Run Susan Run!"
This November, Morris Cove residents will see two names on their ballots — and have the option of writing in a third — as they decide whom to support for Ward 18 alder.
by | Oct 25, 2023 9:18 am | Comments (40)
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Mayor Justin Elicker, Tom Goldenberg, and Wendy Hamilton on Tuesday.
What do you call a registered Democrat running for office on the Independent and Republican lines?
Mayoral candidates offered different takes on that question — and whether the question even matters — at the final debate before November’s general election.
by and | Oct 24, 2023 9:19 am | Comments (9)
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Ward 13 alder hopefules: Green challenger Paul Garlinghouse, Democratic incumbent Rosa Ferraro-Santana, and Republican challenger Deborah Reyes.
A three-way alder race in Fair Haven Heights pits an incumbent Democrat focused on parks against Green and Republican challengers raising concerns about single-party rule at City Hall.
by | Oct 24, 2023 9:00 am | Comments (59)
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Pastors Cesar Padilla, Teresa Rivera, and Miguel Castro: Each overcame addiction "when the Lord Jesus came in our lives."
Three pastors and a mayoral challenger took to the steps of City Hall to criticize the Elicker administration for even considering establishing a safe-use injection site downtown — with the clergy arguing that spirituality is the best balm for addiction, and the Republican candidate claiming that city government is further along in such a plan than it has made itself out to be.
by | Oct 23, 2023 5:00 pm | Comments (3)
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Ward 11 Alder Renee Haywood, on the campaign trail in 2017.
Renee Haywood, a long-time Bella Vista resident and advocate for the disabled who represented Ward 11 on the Board of Alders for nearly six years even as she underwent dialysis, died on Friday. She was 60.
by | Oct 20, 2023 1:01 pm | Comments (21)
The final mayoral debate in a year chock-full of them will take place at the Shubert Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m., as two-term incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker and challengers Tom Goldenberg and Wendy Hamilton will take the stage.
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by | Oct 18, 2023 8:34 am | Comments (15)
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Kiana Flores, at a 2019 climate rally outside City Hall.
As a Co-Op high school student, Kiana Flores helped convince the Board of Alders to pass a climate emergency resolution.
As a Yale college student, she’ll soon have a chance to put such eco-friendly policy priorities into practice — after she runs unopposed to become the next alder representing downtown’s Ward 1.
Continue reading ‘Climate Activist On Tap To Be Next Ward 1 Alder’
by | Oct 17, 2023 4:33 pm | Comments (16)
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Darnell Goldson at Monday's Board of Education meeting.
Darnell Goldson has officially ended his bid for reelection to the Board of Education, winding down a nearly eight-year stretch helping govern the school system — and leaving school board candidate Andrea Downer uncontested in her run to take Goldson’s place.
by | Oct 16, 2023 8:02 pm | Comments (4)
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Former Alder and State Rep. Andrea Jackson-Brooks.
Andrea Jackson-Brooks, a Hill alder and state representative whose decades-long career in politics earned her widespread admiration for her commitment to public service, passed away on Sunday. She was 79.
by | Oct 12, 2023 4:35 pm | Comments (12)
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Chris Murphy asks Raisa about her family as she shows him a photo of her daughter.
As 85-year-old Raisa pulled up a photograph of her daughter on her iPhone, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy took a break from walking across Fair Haven Heights to ask her a question.
“Is she safe?”
by | Oct 12, 2023 3:40 pm | Comments (12)
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Democratic candidate Mayor Justin Elicker and Republican challenger Tom Goldenberg.
Mayor Justin Elicker and mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg both headed into the final month before November’s general election with around $13,000 left in their respective campaign coffers.
That’s just about the only campaign-finance-report similarity between the two candidates, as the incumbent Democrat has pulled in nearly $200,000 more in individual donations than the Republican first-timer over the course of this campaign year — even as Elicker has participated in the public-financing Democracy Fund, and Goldenberg has not.
As for the latest three-month quarter between the start of July and the end of September, Elicker’s campaign raised around $62,000 in individual contributions, while Goldenberg’s raised around $13,000.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Outraises Goldenberg $62K To $13K In Q3 Individual Contributions’
by | Oct 5, 2023 8:46 am | Comments (15)
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Mayoral hopeful Tom Goldenberg with Knickerbocker regular Willie Holmes and club Vice President Patty Newton-Foster.
The Knickerbocker's castle-like clubhouse at 715 Sherman Pkwy.
Willie Holmes stepped into the Knickerbocker on Wednesday night for the same reason that he’s been showing up to the Newhallville African American golf club’s events for the past 75 years: to relax with friends, talk about the pleasures of golf and the state of Black New Haven, grab a drink, and mix it up with local political power players and those looking to join their ranks.
Continue reading ‘Goldenberg Swings For Support At Black Golf Club’
by | Oct 2, 2023 5:46 pm | Comments (8)
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End Hunger Connecticut's Lucy Nolan: A shutdown would be "horrendous" for families in need of food.
If the federal government shuts down, state agencies and local organizations can only do so much to stop children from going hungry, seniors from shivering in the winter, and healthcare centers from shuttering.
by | Sep 22, 2023 9:05 am | Comments (10)
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Abdul Osmanu at WNHH FM.
Someone forgot to tell Abdul Razak Osmanu to turn bitter and cynical.
Continue reading ‘Gen-Zer Emerges From Political Trenches With Idealism Intact’
by and | Sep 15, 2023 12:03 pm | Comments (24)
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Surprised non-Democrat Anthony Carter, with Bella Vista moderator Patricia Solomon.
“I’ve been a Democrat all my life,” said May, an 81-year-old Newhallville resident who said she’s voted at Lincoln-Bassett School every election since she bought her home in 1985.
Except she wasn’t a Democrat on Tuesday. She found out from a moderator that she had been re-registered as an “unaffiliated” voter, ineligible to vote in the primary.
May was one of at least dozens of people across the city to find out on Tuesday that they couldn’t vote because they weren’t Democrats. To many, including May, that news came as an inexplicable surprise.
Continue reading ‘Unexpected Unaffiliateds Turned Away At Polls’
by | Sep 15, 2023 8:21 am | Comments (24)
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Tom Goldenberg: "This is quid pro quo politics. This is non-transparency. This is corruption."
The city’s Republican candidate for mayor kicked off his post-Democratic primary general election campaign by lobbing accusations of corruption at the Elicker administration in its dealings with a local methadone clinic — claims that the current mayor dismissed as “fearmongering politics,” “ridiculous,” “unethical,” and coming at the expense of some of New Haven’s most vulnerable populations.
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by | Sep 15, 2023 8:19 am | Comments (6)
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"Vanilla" match: Govs. Rell and Lamont.
(Opinion) I am not looking forward to the next 14 months in the world of politics. That’s how long we have until the 2024 presidential election, which is looking like a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The shouting about Hunter Biden, Georgia election interference and everything else is only going to become more shrill the closer we get to November 2024. Can’t politics be a little less confrontational, and a little more civil?
by and | Sep 12, 2023 10:05 pm | Comments (40)
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Frank Redente, Jr. (second from left) at the polls with supporters on Tuesday.
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Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola (right): "It was a good fight. The people spoke."
A 12-year Fair Haven incumbent has officially lost his seat on the Board of Alders, while a 12-year Morris Cove alder hung onto his seat by a thread in a race that came down to absentee ballots.
Continue reading ‘Fair Haven Votes For Change; DeCola Prevails In Morris Cove’
by , and | Sep 12, 2023 8:26 pm | Comments (29)
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Local 33 Yale grad union members at Elicker's primary election night party at BAR.
Mayor Elicker: “We won every single ward by a large, large margin."
(Updated) Mayor Justin Elicker crushed challenger Liam Brennan by more than a 2‑to‑1 margin in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary, taking in 5,503 votes to Brennan’s 2,280 and winning every ward citywide in an election that saw roughly a 23 percent turnout.
The night’s big upset was in Fair Haven’s Ward 15, where challenger Frank Redente, Jr. defeated incumbent Alder Ernie Santiago by nearly a 2‑to‑1 margin. And in Morris Cove’s Ward 18, incumbent Alder Sal DeCola narrowly prevailed against challenger Susan Campion by a margin of only 34 votes.
Continue reading ‘Elicker Cruises To Democratic Primary Victory’
by | Sep 12, 2023 7:54 pm | Comments (0)
Democratic Registrar of Voters data
Note: Because roughly 120 voters in the six wards with contested alder races filled out the part of the ballot pertaining to the alder race but not the mayoral race, the vote totals on the right side of this table -- which reflect all votes cast in Tuesday's election -- do not correspond exactly with the vote totals for the mayoral candidates, as displayed on the left side of the chart.
by , and | Sep 12, 2023 3:59 pm | Comments (9)
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Star Gilliams (center) with Harris & Tucker pollsters Memori Jones, Kauren Gaines, Shamar Sheppard at Lincoln-Bassett in Newhallville: "I'm concerned about what happens to this neighborhood."
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Erica Rodriguez and Isiah Miller, side by side, but for different candidates, on Chatham Street in Fair Haven.
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Sam Tolkin, with 3-year-old Oliver, on Townsend Ave in Morris Cove: Brennan's "got the chutzpah to say how important education is.”
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Barbara Dozier, at Roberto Clemente in the Hill: "It's always important to vote."
(Updated) Shamar Sheppard peered up at Jazmine Williamson, a clipboard and pencil in hand. “Did you vote today?” he asked. “Who did you vote for?”
Continue reading ‘Scenes From The Polls: Kids Count In Newhallville’