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Jul 26, 2023 11:21 am
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Incumbent Fair Haven Alder Ernie Santiago at Tuesday's convention: "I have work to do communicating with the leaders of my community."
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Challenger Frankie Redente, Jr. picking up Democratic primary ballot petition from 200 Orange St. on Wednesday.
In one competitive Fair Haven alder race, the local Democratic Party did not endorse any candidate — meaning that both incumbent Ernie Santiago and challenger Frank Redente Jr. will have to gather signatures to make it onto the primary ballot.
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Jul 25, 2023 7:21 pm
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Mayor Elicker (right) before winning 47 of 54 votes cast at Tuesday's convention.
Mayor Justin Elicker won the local Democratic Party’s official support in a landslide on Tuesday evening in his bid for another term in the city’s top elected office — while his three intraparty challengers geared up to petition their way onto September’s Democratic primary ballot.
Hana Feldman plans to return to school once her firstborn is old enough for daycare — and hopes that two-week-old Eva will have an easier time following in her footsteps with state money newly set aside for college tuition.
Closed school, future black box theater, on Valley St?
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Smith dreams of black box theatre and second community center for Ward 30.
If it was up to West Rock/West Hills Alder Honda Smith, her ward would put two now-vacant former public school buildings — including the recently shuttered ex-Clarence Rogers School on Wilmot Road — back to use by creating a black box theater for family-friendly programming, a rental space, a second community center, and an all-boys charter school.
One of Yale’s politically powerful labor unions has thrown its support behind Mayor Justin Elicker in his bid for another term in office, praising his administration for its support for tenants unions, investment in affordable housing, and successful securing of more money for the city from Yale and the state.
Goldenberg: "New Haven should not be an experiment for the state."
The Elicker administration is in the early stages of looking into medically supervised injection and drug consumption sites as a local strategy for combating opioid overdoses — while a mayoral challenger is pushing back against those tentative plans as a tactic for bashing the incumbent.
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Jul 24, 2023 4:27 pm
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Andrea Downer at Friday's joint ward committee meeting.
Andrea Downer took another step towards securing the local Democratic Party’s endorsement in her bid to unseat incumbent elected Board of Education rep Darnell Goldson, after winning the support of two Democratic ward committees in East Rock, and tying on the third.
Marty Looney found himself in a political conversation that summed up the challenge that he and his fellow progressives face at the state Capitol. It happened not in the halls of power, but at a Dunkin Donuts.
Elicker, Abdussabur offer different takeaways at Jepsen mayoral forum.
Days after a rainstorm flooded Tweed airport and left passengers temporarily stranded, mayoral candidates conveyed varying takes on the airport’s economic value and environmental impact to its neighbors.
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Incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker and Board of Education challenger Andrea Downer emerged victorious in the last round of ward-level endorsement votes, this time by Beaver Hills Democrats.
Liam Brennan (left) and Abby Roth (right) outside the Bradley Street Bicycle Co-op on Tuesday afternoon.
Former Downtown Alder Abby Roth, a former supporter of incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker, switched her allegiances for this year’s campaign and endorsed one of his challengers.
Jeanette Sykes, center, to political hopefuls: "Sometimes you're gonna have to stand alone."
With gentrification and adult education on their minds, Newhallville Democrats endorsed a political newcomer for alder while casting their support with the incumbent mayor and splitting on a school board seat.
Alternative to arrests: COMPASS crew members Yichu Xu and Nanette Campbell help out Ollie Cooper at crisis team's launch last fall.
How should New Haven police respond to the use and sale of drugs?
New Haven’s mayoral candidates are putting forward a variety of answers to that question, propelling the issue of when (and whether) to arrest people into this year’s campaign.
LCI housing code inspections up for mayoral debate.
Tenant advocate, Fair Haven resident, and grandmother Camilla Crowell arrived at a housing-themed mayoral debate with an inkling that she might vote for Justin Elicker.
Two and a half hours later, she had learned something she liked about nearly every candidate. “I think I got more options now.”
There was no need for an instant runoff in Thursday’s Westville ward committee straw poll for mayor, as two-term incumbent Justin Elicker won a majority of votes on the first ballot.
But, for the fun of it — and to practice running a ranked-choice-voting election — the neighborhood Democrats assembled in Edgewood School’s auditorium counted a second round of votes anyway, and shed a bit more light on this year’s mayoral race in the process.
Goldenberg campaigning at a gun violence focus group in June.
Is financial backing from just 15 New Haveners — including his wife and a campaign employee — in the second quarter of a heated mayoral race enough to get Tom Goldenberg on the ballot, let alone into City Hall?
Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola (right) won the ward committee's endorsement by just 2 votes ...
... as Mayor Justin Elicker prevailed by 15, on Wednesday.
Morris Cove Alder Sal DeCola narrowly beat back a challenge from a Tweed airport expansion critic to win his neighborhood’s Democratic Party endorsement for reelection — as Mayor Justin Elicker coasted in a crowded field towards securing that same East Shore party-insider group’s support — in the first votes to take place this municipal election year.
Mayor Elicker (right) with Democratic challengers Brennan and Goldenberg.
Mayor Justin Elicker out-fundraised his Democratic primary rivals by between $14,000 and $38,000 in individual contributions this spring — and still has over $181,000 left in the bank — according to the latest mayoral race campaign finance filings.
Why’s the rent so damn high? And what on earth should the mayor do about it?
Those questions might be asked — maybe not in those exact words — at a mayoral candidate forum that the Room for All coalition will be hosting on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Albertus Magnus College’s Hubert Campus Center at 831 Winchester Ave.
Alder Cupo: "To know that there is a LGBTQ+-friendly affordable housing set of units [coming to] our city makes me believe that it is possible to win more."
Surrounded by elected officials and fellow Yale union organizers, Wooster Square Alder Ellen Cupo kicked off her reelection campaign by focusing on affordable housing initiatives the city has gained in the past few years — and the strip club her neighborhood pushed away.
A retired police sergeant-turned-mayoral candidate has a plan for beefing up the city’s walking beats: hiring back fellow retired cops to pound the pavement, without a gun or the power to arrest — and with a civilian “ambassador” by their side.
Remidy Shareef: White supremacy "is the root cause of all of our problems here in America."
Call out exclusionary suburbs. Stand up for undocumented immigrants. Help boost Black small-business contractors. And always “speak truth to power.”
New Haven’s four Democratic candidates for mayor offered those responses when asked on the debate stage about what they have done and will do to combat systemic racial prejudices that benefit people who are white and harm those who are not.
