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Tom Goldenberg at WNHH FM.
ECA. To an ashram. To the bar at Pacifico. To McKinsey & Company. To … New Haven City Hall?
Continue reading ‘Meditator-Turned-Bartender-Turned-McKinsey Consultant Prepares Mayoral Run’
by | Dec 15, 2022 2:00 pm | Comments (0)
Ward 21 candidates Hurse, Christmas, Streater.
It’s election season again — at least in Ward 21 — with three candidates now vying for a newly opened seat on the Board of Alders.
by | Dec 12, 2022 4:18 pm | Comments (5)
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Fred Christmas filing papers Monday at City Clerk's Office; Maceo Troy Streater.
Two lifelong New Haveners are seeking to become the next Ward 21 alder now that the incumbent has stepped down mid-term.
by | Dec 6, 2022 2:27 pm | Comments (27)
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Darryl Brackeen Jr. in Lawrenceville, Jayuan Carter in McDonough Tuesday.
A New Haven knock came on many Georgia voters’ doors Tuesday as history hung in the balance.
Continue reading ‘New Haveners Hit Doors For Georgia Run-off’
by | Dec 6, 2022 9:05 am | Comments (19)
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Ford promotional images for the Interceptor SUV that the NHPD wants to purchase and the electric Mach-E Mustang that the NYPD bought. (AI-generated lightning not included.)
Should a once-in-a-lifetime flood of federal money be used to fund more gas-powered public safety vehicles, while the city contends with a looming climate crisis and one of the highest asthma rates in the country?
Alders raised those questions — even as they moved ahead the Elicker Administration’s proposal to use $4.5 million in federal pandemic-relief aid in part to buy new non-electric police SUVs and fire trucks.
Continue reading ‘$4.5M Fire Truck, Police SUV Plan Advances’
by | Dec 5, 2022 1:14 pm | Comments (37)
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Back for more: Justin Elicker, with Natalie Elicker, submits paperwork to Assistant City Clerk May Gardner-Reed.
Mayor Justin Elicker filed papers Monday to run for a third two-year term, 11 months and four days after he began his second one.
by | Nov 21, 2022 3:23 pm | Comments (10)
Don't Blame Me: A senator (pictured at Monday New Haven press conference), a singing star, and a super-seller point fingers for ticket fiasco.
There will be hell to pay for screwing up ticket sales to pop phenom Taylor Swift’s first tour in four years, if Richard Blumenthal has his way.
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Generations after he unleashed federal law enforcement to destroy the lives of people who disagreed with him, J. Edgar Hoover has finally met his match.
by | Nov 17, 2022 11:50 am | Comments (3)
Maybe it’s because Donald Trump wasn’t president. Maybe it’s because Ned Lamont focused more on suburbs.
by | Nov 16, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (9)
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Working Families Party Executive Director Sarah Ganong at WNHH FM.
Sarah Ganong — whose third party helped labor-friendly Democrats win elections all over the state last week — doesn’t buy the theory that voters delivered a Republican-lite strategy on taxes.
Continue reading ‘Progressive Party Flexes "Fusion" Muscles’
by | Nov 14, 2022 12:41 pm | Comments (6)
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The soon-to-be-resurrected Hill Cooperative Youth Services Building.
Plans to bring a former Trowbridge Square community center back to life took a big step forward as the Board of Alders formally accepted $1.5 million in state funds to renovate and reopen the Hill Cooperative Youth Services community center, formerly known as the Barbell.
Continue reading ‘Alders Accept State $ For Barbell Revival’
by | Nov 11, 2022 3:07 pm | Comments (8)
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Steve Mednick at WNHH FM.
Steve Mednick emerged from this week’s elections with two more charter revisions under his belt, and a new album of politically inspired original music.
Continue reading ‘Charters, Chords Emerge From Election Trail’
by | Nov 11, 2022 1:00 pm | Comments (13)
(Opinion) What a week for the 1 percent!
Continue reading ‘Compost Headlines: Untaxing Time For Rich’
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Officer Chad Curry at Thursday's Board of Alders meeting.
After one bullet grazed his ear and another lodged in his shoulder, Officer Chad Curry got up to chase the man who fired at him.
The Board of Alders honored that perseverance and service in an official citation Thursday evening, just over a month after a shooting injured the police officer.
by | Nov 9, 2022 5:41 pm | Comments (3)
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Nailah and Chaz Brackeen.
As politicians across the state cheered at the end of an often-bitter campaign season, Westville Alder Darryl Brackeen Jr. and his wife Chaz celebrated the beginning of something sweeter this Election Day: a new life born into his family.
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Erick Russell with rest of Democratic statewide team at Wednesday presser: LGBTQ history made.
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (right) with supporter Sydney Perry Tuesday night.
Democrats elected to fill all of Connecticut’s statewide elected offices for the next four years — including the first New Havener to win one of those offices in 36 years — claimed a mandate Wednesday to continue and build on the policies of the previous four.
Continue reading ‘Dems Sweep Elections; Urban Vote Plummets’
by | Nov 8, 2022 8:25 pm | Comments (2)
The battle of Greenwich was called minutes after the polls closed Tuesday. Richard Blumenthal prevailed.
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Note: These results are from the voting machines only; they do not include absentee ballots. More charts appear after the jump.
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by | Nov 8, 2022 7:19 pm | Comments (0)
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Jackie Randolph and Treasurer hopeful in Westville Tuesday.
Alder Carmen Rodriguez and State Rep. Juan Candelaria with Holly Jiang and Betty Fludd outside Clemente in the Hill.
When Jackie Randolph arrived at Davis Street Magnet School Tuesday, she wasn’t expecting to see her neighbor Erick Russell.
But she was expecting to vote for his hometown candidacy for statewide office.
by | Nov 8, 2022 4:39 pm | Comments (9)
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Enthusiastic kids, more enthusiastic politicians shouting "VOTE" Tuesday.
A new political polling group arrived at Lincoln Bassett School and discovered two preliminary findings: Newhallville is an overwhelmingly Democratic neighborhood — and “the floor is lava!”
by | Nov 8, 2022 3:51 pm | Comments (1)
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Among the 400 same-day registrants (as of 4 p.m.) lining up to vote at City Hall.
Yale School of Management student Brittany Swanson waited too long to send in an absentee ballot to vote against celebrity physician and Republican Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania this election.
So she instead found herself at City Hall, registering to become a New Haven voter to throw some last minute support towards Connecticut’s Democratic ticket.
Continue reading ‘Pennsylvania Transplant Votes Blue Thru EDR’
by | Nov 8, 2022 1:01 pm | Comments (3)
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Green AG candidate Krayeske with Veronica Douglas Tuesday.
He talked about electric cargo bikes, being new neighbors in Fair Haven Heights, and how people in positions of power must be more compassionate and be held accountable.
All of that — delivered on a cool, sunny Tuesday morning on Lexington Avenue — got Green Party attorney general hopeful and recent New Haven transplant Ken Krayeske Larry Ardigliano’s vote on Election Day.
The successful exchange occurred at Krayeske’s polling place, the Benjamin Jepson School at 15 Lexington Ave., where the candidate had ridden on his spiffy yellow electric cargo bike to meet the folks and to solicit votes.
Krayeske and his wife recently moved into a condo on Lexington Avenue to comply with his wife Wildaliz Bermudez’s residency requirement as the new executive director of the city’s Fair Rent Commission.
Krayeske said he plans in the near future to move his now Hartford-based law practice to the Elm City. He’s there in part because the majority of Krayeske’s clients are state prisoners.
His aim outside of the Fair Haven Heights polling place Tuesday morning was as much to meet his neighbors as to garner votes in his long-shot attempt as the Green Party’s candidate to replace Democratic Party incumbent William Tong as the state’s attorney general.
Casually but effectively mixing the neighbor and policy messages, Krayeske made his case to Jose Maysonet. “I’m Ken Krayeske, running for attorney general on the Green Party. More importantly, I’m your neighbor.”
The candidate (right) with neighbor Jose Maysonet.
Then switching into fluent Spanish, he added (in the candidate’s translation): “The reason I’m running is I don’t like the way the current attorney general does business.”
Then Krayeske reprised for Maysonet a representative case in which the ultimate ruling compelled the state of Connecticut to test 20,000 inmates for hepatitis. (Click here to read more about that and other of his cases in Krayeske’s interview with the Independent). “The corollary benefit is that it helped to close the Northern Correctional Institution, which was a brutal place.”
Krayeske’s Spanish comes from a year spent in Spain as a Syracuse University undergraduate and also through his wife, who is Puerto Rican. Krayeske and Maysonet chatted, in more Spanish, about where his wife’s family hails from and where Maysonet’s family lives on the island.
Still, when Maysonet excused himself to vote, he wouldn’t tell a nosy reporter if the candidate had convinced him to vote the Green line for attorney general.
“It helps I speak Spanish,” said Krayeske, “And I know Puertoricanisms” through his wife.
A few minutes later, when he noticed Larry Ardigliano approaching wearing a bright lemon-colored bicycle helmet, Krayeske introduced himself and added, “I rode that awesome electric cargo bike. We just moved here. I’m running for attorney general and I do civil rights law.”
After a few words on the pleasure of riding bikes along the Quinnipiac and the Mill rivers and when Ardigliano expressed interest in the type of law Krayeske practices, the candidate went to the heart of his pitch: “I’m running because I don’t like the job William Tong is doing in holding his lawyers to account. We can exert state power with compassion. And the state can admit when it makes mistakes.
“But why doesn’t the state admit wrongdoing?” Ardigliano pressed Krayeske.
“Because if the state admits wrongdoing” instead of fighting each such allegation, he argued, “then it has to approach change. Women should not be raped in the state’s prisons. They shouldn’t have to give birth on a toilet. The attorneys I fought against were mean. This is the 21st century in America. That’s why I’m running, but I’m also here to meet my neighbors.”
Moments later when Ardigliano emerged from the Jepson lobby voting area, he said, “Holding people in positions of power accountable. That’s one of our biggest problems. He got my vote.”
Krayeske (right) with Larry Ardigliano.
He also got Maysonet’s vote.
Krayeske didn’t spend any money on his own campaign, he said. Instead, he gave what was available in his budget, he said, to the local diaper bank.
“Why should I spend money on what amounts to info warfare! Why make the media companies rich! Why are Lamont and Stefanowski spending millions when so many babies have diaper rash. This is why William Tong didn’t want to debate me. I’d have spanked him.”
As Krayeske mounted his bike, this reporter asked him what, on this election day, his next campaign stop would be.
It turns out this was his only one.
“I’m a lawyer, I’m going home. I’ve got briefs to write.”
by | Nov 8, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (10)
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Demarlo Allen with Winter outside King/Robinson polls: Is early voting safe?
Boosting electoral reform, with the help of stickers.
“If democracy isn’t accessible, it isn’t really democracy.”
With those words of caution — and with plenty of democracy-boosting stickers and flyers and lawn signs to boot — Steve Winter made an Election Day pitch to fellow Newhallville residents to vote yes for early voting.
by | Nov 8, 2022 7:08 am | Comments (13)
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Mayor Elicker (second from left) and Town Chair Vincent Mauro Jr. (far right) with entire statewide Democratic slate at BAR Monday evening.
Top Democrats from across Connecticut descended on a Crown Street pizzeria the night before Election Day to make their final case to voters in the “political capital of the state” that their party is the one to trust to protect democracy for the long term.
by | Nov 4, 2022 3:04 pm | Comments (6)
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4 who would be governor (clockwise from top left): Michelle Bicking, Rob Hotaling, Ned Lamont, Bob Stefanowski.
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Candidates for U.S. Representative, one of numerous multi-candidate races (clockwise from top left): Amy Chai, Justin Paglino, Rosa DeLauro, Lesley DeNardis.
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