by | Oct 29, 2024 5:11 pm | Comments (8)
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Acri at WNHH FM: Voters deserve "a choice."
Anthony Acri knows what it’s like to rebuild a life after a setback. He wants voters to send him to Hartford to put that experience to work for other people seeking to rebuild theirs.
by | Oct 29, 2024 2:21 pm | Comments (10)
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U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and Honda Smith with firefighters from Engine 15 who work with kids at The Shack ...
... as artist David Coardes stands before mural of Alder Smith painted by Imani Roberts.
In the midst of a spirited game of Bingo among a group of senior citizens at The Shack, there was an interruption. It was U.S. Senator Chris Murphy stopping by — to get an up-close look at what makes the West Hills community center work so well.
Continue reading ‘Shack Teaches Senator Community "Formula"’
by | Oct 28, 2024 3:46 pm | Comments (9)
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Shahd Omar: "I have family who's affected, friends who are quite literally watching their lineages wiped away."
A 23-year-old University of New Haven student with Palestinian roots is mounting a last-minute write-in campaign for Congress to protest the Democratic Party’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
Continue reading ‘Last-Minute DeLauro Challenger Seeks Pro-Palestine Vote’
by | Oct 28, 2024 11:08 am | Comments (26)
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Cherene Cotter: "To have a president come in and deport immigrants… I can’t do that.”
U.S. Sen Blumenthal (right) addresses Saturday's crowd.
With a closing pitch centering abortion access and worker power, local and state elected officials gathered on Dixwell Avenue to rally for Democratic candidates up and down the ballot — especially Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential contest with former President Donald Trump.
by | Oct 25, 2024 9:23 pm | Comments (13)
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U.S. Sen. Murphy (right): Harris's campaign represents broad "defense of democracy."
Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney aren’t the most natural of political allies.
But, when faced with the prospect of another Trump presidency, “there’s a lot of unusual partners being joined together today in defense of democracy. That is the actual stakes today.”
Continue reading ‘Murphy: Harris & Cheney, "Unusual Partners," Are Both Defending Democracy’
by | Oct 24, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (73)
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Demetry Belfort (right), with Brielle Quarles: “If Trump wins, so be it. I’ve voted my principles."
Brielle Quarles and Demetry Belfort don’t believe the doomsday-for-democracy prophecies of a jack-booted Trump future.
They feel burned by an Obama presidency that failed to deliver systemic change on housing, policing, immigration, and American “imperialism.”
And they don’t approve of a current Democratic Party leader who flaunts ownership of a Glock pistol.
So, with a commitment to their principles, they voted for a third-party potential spoiler.
Continue reading ‘Disillusioned With Dems, Couple Votes Stein’
by | Oct 23, 2024 10:36 am | Comments (31)
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Leslie Blatteau and Elizabeth Baldetti work the phones for "pro-worker, pro-working-family candidates like Vice President Kamala Harris, former AFT member Tim Walz, and Senator Bob Casey."
Seven New Haven teachers gathered after school to make phone calls — not to students’ parents, but to registered voters in the all-important swing state of Pennsylvania, to encourage them to each make voting plans, and to boost Democratic candidates for president, vice president, and senate.
by and | Oct 21, 2024 2:07 pm | Comments (53)
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Kenneth Barnes: "I just want the world to be a better place."
Dozens of New Haveners lined up on the second floor of City Hall Monday morning to cast the city’s first early ballots in this year’s long-coming presidential election.
Continue reading ‘First Early Votes Cast In General Election’
by | Oct 18, 2024 1:26 pm | Comments (21)
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State Rep. Pat Dillon at WNHH FM: "It's great if you bought DoorDash stock five years ago, not if you had maybe 10 people on your staff, serving people, and now you're down to two."
Pat Dillon started visiting voters on her 22nd round of seeking election to a state legislative seat when she learned something new: the Amity Walgreens is closing.
The voters who broke the news considered it a big deal. Dillon said she does, too, and intends to incorporate it into her work if elected on Nov. 5 to represent New Haven’s west-side 92nd General Assembly District for a 21st two-year term.
by | Oct 15, 2024 1:07 pm | Comments (14)
The local, state, and federal candidates on New Haveners' ballots for Nov. 5.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris aren’t the only ones on the ballot this election season.
The Independent’s latest annual voter guide is here to help you figure out who’s on your ballot, and where and when to cast your vote.
by | Oct 14, 2024 12:05 pm | Comments (18)
State Rep. Elliott: Tax burden is backwards.
Josh Elliott is ready to run for governor to challenge the current governor’s take on taxing the rich — but only if the current governor isn’t on the ballot.
Continue reading ‘Elliott Eyes "Equitable Taxation" Guv Run’
by | Oct 14, 2024 8:45 am | Comments (0)
Funeral services for Beaver Hills Alder Tom Ficklin are scheduled to take place at Battell Chapel Thursday beginning at 11 a.m.
by | Oct 11, 2024 9:23 am | Comments (23)
Help more people vote: Joshua Elliott and Karimah Mickens at WNHH FM.
If you no longer have to lie about needing to vote absentee — would that cut down on fraud?
by | Oct 10, 2024 12:17 pm | Comments (21)
Ubiquitous in New Haven: The late Tom Ficklin.
Beaver Hills Alder Tom Ficklin, a leading New Haven figure in media and politics and a community omnipresence for decades, died suddenly Wednesday night at the age of 75.
by | Oct 9, 2024 10:04 am | Comments (7)
Orosco4Senate Insta reels.
Steve Orosco is as likely to knock on your iPhone as to knock on your door this campaign season.
by | Oct 8, 2024 3:55 pm | Comments (27)
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Rosa the Rizzler: DeLauro at WNHH FM.
Inflation keeps dropping. Unemployment is near historic lows. Jobs keep growing.
Rosa DeLauro didn’t talk about any of that. Even though she and her party could crow about those trends in a typical election year.
But this isn’t a typical election year.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro Sees 18th Term Window Of Opportunity’
by | Oct 8, 2024 8:30 am | Comments (16)
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Stacey Abrams (right), and interlocutor Emily Bazelon: "If you’re interested in peoples’ lives being better, that’s politics.”
State government is by far the least understood in our system, and in many ways the most important to get right if we want to achieve the goals of democracy.
Former Georgia state rep and gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams made those remarks, by turns trenchant yet largely apolitical, at the Hopkins School Monday afternoon before no fewer than 1,200 enthusiastic, applauding young people.
by | Oct 2, 2024 3:24 pm | Comments (14)
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Green hopeful Paul Garlinghouse, incoming Republican registrar Lisa Milone, and incumbent Democratic registrar Shannel Evans.
Lisa Milone can’t lose November’s registrar of voters election.
Seriously: Per state law, the Republican candidate has to win. The same is true for her Democratic counterpart and two-term incumbent, Shannel Evans.
by | Sep 27, 2024 4:47 pm | Comments (8)
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Don’t understand the headline of this story? Neither do we, really. Our Gen Z correspondent is here to help.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s most recent post on X (formerly known as Twitter) sticks out in the midst of policy-driven proclamations and support for foreign allies. It’s a TikTok-style video, where the 81-year-old congresswoman speaks what to many might be gibberish, but to an entire generation, is perfectly clear.
by | Sep 23, 2024 11:31 am | Comments (6)
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Former House Speaker Pelosi: “Every issue is a woman’s issue.”
Nancy Pelosi did not come to New Haven to downplay her political influence. She sat comfortably in her power — and that was the point.
by | Sep 20, 2024 2:33 pm | Comments (7)
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Shannel Evans and Kevin Arnold get to work recounting ballots.
The ballots have been recounted. The numbers are the same. Angel Hubbard is still the winner of Monday’s Ward 3 alder race.
by | Sep 18, 2024 9:42 am | Comments (10)
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DeLauro (left) at CitySeed; Massey at WNHH FM.
On issues ranging from the federal Department of Education’s existence to companies’ use of algorithm-based “targeted pricing,” New Haven voters have heard a clear choice this week from candidates for Congress.
by | Sep 16, 2024 8:29 pm | Comments (27)
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Hubbard and Pittman at Career after polls closed.
(Updated) Angel Hubbard bested Miguel Pittman in Monday’s special election for Ward 3 alder — but by less than 20 votes, which means city election officials will have to recount the ballots by hand before the results are final.
by | Sep 16, 2024 4:16 pm | Comments (16)
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DeLauro with Lina Khan Monday at CitySeed.
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro brought a progressive star with MAGA cred to town Monday to help craft an election season message about high food prices: Blame corporate price-gougers.
Continue reading ‘Khan Helps DeLauro Pin Prices On "Gougers"’
by | Sep 11, 2024 4:18 pm | Comments (9)
Miguel Pittman sat in one of two electric golf carts on an Orange Street sidewalk Wednesday afternoon — after casting an early ballot for his own bid to become Ward 3’s next alder, and as he prepared to drive back to the Hill in his campaign “eye catcher” of a vehicle.