4-year terms, on the table at latest charter-review panel.
Hartford and Middletown recently moved from two-year to four-year terms for their mayors and local legislators. Should New Haven do the same?
The Charter Revision Commission considered that question while hearing from representatives of four other Connecticut towns, all of whom spoke in support of longer mayoral stints in office.
We can do better: Brennan unveils "white paper" at Temple Plaza presser.
A scared teenager was relieved to see the cops arrive. Then he saw fear in the face of the man the cops stopped for allegedly trying to break into his home.
The day after the Elicker administration sent bulldozers and a swarm of cops to clear out a West River homeless encampment, a mayoral candidate criticized the operation as an example of “cruel” “mismanagement and failure of leadership.”
Elicker fielding questions at reelection campaign kick-off.
Justin Elicker said he can understand where his numerous mayoral campaign opponents are coming from when they say they can do a better job tackling the city’s challenges.
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Mayor Elicker filing for reelection in December.
Mayor Justin Elicker received his first $20,000 in matching public funds for his clean-money-bolstered reelection campaign, with two of his Democratic challengers reportedly soon to follow suit.
Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg: "This is an inappropriate place" for a methadone clinic.
APT patient Jeffrey Culp: "What happens to the people where this place saved their lives?"
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic.
One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he continued, is his own.
Ex-State Sen. George Logan, with guitar and in front of picture of Mary McLeod Bethune, at Republican-organized Black History Month event.
George Logan and a handful of fellow local Republican politicos commemorated Black History Month with a live performance of Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” — and with a lineup of speakers who paid tribute to the late civil rights icon and informal presidential adviser Mary McLeod Bethune.
Scenes from a campaign launch video (clockwise from top right): Candidate Brennan; at pizzeria with Mercy Quaye; in Ninth Square with Ben Berkowitz; biking with the kids; walking West Rock with Kerry Ellington; buying empanadas with Daniel Pizarro.
Attorney Liam Brennan made his mayoral run official Wednesday — with the help of a national strategist who helped defeat Sarah Palin and local activists as often seen pressuring politicians as supporting them.
Sen. Murphy and Mayor Elicker before Tuesday's State of the Union.
From inside the walls of the nation’s Capitol, Mayor Justin Elicker heard firsthand Republican lawmakers shouting at President Biden as he delivered his State of the Union address.
“I was not surprised. But I was disappointed,” the mayor said. “It was clear in the room that the partisanship was such that it will be difficult to get significant meaningful legislation passed” with Republicans in control of the U.S. House of Representatives this session.
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Mayor Elicker: "This year, in 2023, I’m here to report the state of our city is bright and New Haven is on the move."
While low test scores and attendance rates speak to profound challenges in New Haven’s public schools, the daily perseverance of dedicated staff and a curriculum overhaul are just some of the reasons for hope.
Mayor Justin Elicker offered that message in his annual State of the City speech before the Board of Alders on Monday evening, during which he declared that New Haven’s status is “bright.”
Thursday, as guest; Friday, as host: Tom Ficklin at WNHH FM.
Tom Ficklin has spent six months sitting in public hearings about public services and nominations to city boards and commissions. He has voted on laws. He has heard daily from neighbors about trash that needs to be picked up, trees that need trimming, streets that need to be made safer.
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Charter Revision Commission counsel Steve Mednick: Prioritize clarity; "Avoid the culture of disregard or paralysis."
New Haven’s once-a-decade process of revising the city’s foundational document officially began — as the 2023 Charter Revision Commission received a crash course from an experienced municipal-government attorney on the power balances and scope limitations it’ll have to navigate in the weeks and months ahead.
More than a dozen aspiring campaign managers responded within two days to a New Haven candidate’s offer to pay $4,500 to $6,000 a month to help him try to win the mayor’s office.
A hundred youth workers, former cops, small business owners, and Beaver Hills neighbors thronged a room festooned with balloons, head scarves, knit caps, yarmulkes, and hijabs Sunday to help Shafiq Abdussabur kick off a grassroots mayoral campaign with a promise to heal divisions and unite people across New Haven.
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Karen DuBois-Walton with Democracy Fund chief Aly Heimer in 2021.
The board that oversees New Haven’s public-financing program has officially submitted a suite of proposed changes that would allow candidates running for city clerk, and not just for mayor, to tap into the clean-money effort — and that would reduce the amount of money that wealthy self-funders can put into their own campaigns and still participate and receive public dollars.
Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg added his voice to those calling for a return to in-person Board of Education meetings, in a press-release preview of comments he plans to make at City Hall Monday night.
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Maceo "Troy" Streater (center) with campaign supporters at King-Robinson.
(Updated) Maceo “Troy” Streater ended up on top of a four-way special election for Ward 21 alder, making him the next local legislative representative for a zig-zagged district that stretches across parts of Newhallville, Dixwell, and Prospect Hill.
New Haven can stop making drug arrests (while still confiscating fentanyl). It can stop making gun arrests (while confiscating more illegal guns). It can build needed new housing in places it never dreamed before, or change or even override zoning barriers. It can even teach kids how to read rather than teach them how not to read.
So says Liam Brennan. He bases those conclusions on his personal and professional life experiences. And he’d like to give New Haveners the chance to elect someone who intends to lead the city into that new era.
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Candidate Goldenberg with East Rock/Fair Haven Alder Claudia Herrera at Pan de Cielo 2.
The following op-ed was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg.
Research on startups shows that founders who are mentored by top-performing entrepreneurs are three times more likely than their co-located peers without mentors to become top performers themselves. Yet for many minority entrepreneurs, these types of connections are out of reach. Black business owners are more likely to report having difficulty securing access to credit, being able to raise money from family and friends, and having social connections to investment fund managers.
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Maceo Troy Streater knocks on Ann Garrett Robinson's door Wednesday.
A team of formerly-incarcerated campaigners rally behind Streater.
Door after door, Maceo Troy Streater set out in the neighborhood where he’s lived his whole life to campaign for a newly vacant alder seat — and to convince neighbors that personal and political change is possible.
Shafiq Abdussabur at WNHH FM: Community grows face-to-face.
The city’s Board of Education should ditch the remote and resume meeting in person to tackle the school system’s challenges, in the view of Democratic mayoral candidate Shafiq Abdussabur.
Aminah Abdussabur (right) prepares to submit mayoral campaign papers Friday on behalf of her grandfather Shafiq.
Community activist and retired police Sgt. Shafiq Abdussabur submitted papers Friday to begin a run for the Democratic mayoral nomination, as New Haven’s public-education challenges continued to top the campaign season issues debate.
Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, Mayor Justin Elicker: Alliance broken.
Mayor Justin Elicker informed a longtime supporter on Tuesday that he would not hire him for a City Hall job. On Wednesday that former supporter, Upper Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen, announced he had signed on to manage the campaign of one of Elicker’s challengers in this year’s race for the Democratic nomination.
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Fred Christmas at the door with Dixwell resident Sharon Green.
Fred Christmas bounded onto Winter Street in the biting January air, holding a manila envelope of campaign leaflets in his hand.
The Ward 21 alder hopeful had spent the morning talking with Dixwell voters, and was running late for a meetup with some neighborhood senior citizens. But there were still a few more doors to knock — and Christmas was on a mission.
