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.
by | Sep 11, 2024 9:10 am | Comments (4)
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Miguel Pittman and Angel Hubbard.
Residents of Ward 3 now have a chance to elect a new alder, with early voting kicking off today and election day itself approaching on Sept. 16.
Here’s what you need to know.
by | Sep 6, 2024 9:37 am | Comments (3)
State Rep. Lemar at WNHH FM.
Roland Lemar has advice for Kamala Harris for her big presidential campaign debate next week: Stay the course.
Let the “ho” digs and name-calling and other insults slide by. Keep smiling. Stand above it. Let her opponent, Donald Trump, look small.
by | Sep 5, 2024 3:40 pm | Comments (12)
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Miguel and Sandra Pittman, on the Hill campaign trail.
Shauna Williams-Smith had never been visited by a local politician before this week. She also didn’t know about the Board of Alders, let alone the special election to replace former Ward 3 Alder Ron Hurt later this month.
But on Wednesday, Miguel Pittman showed up at her Stevens Street door to pitch his run for the neighborhood legislative role — and won a pledge of support from a Hill resident newly engaged with local politics.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Commits To Community, Communication’
by | Sep 5, 2024 1:22 pm | Comments (9)
Zola with her daughter after filing cross-endorsement paperwork at the state Capitol.
Voters will be able to cast ballots for Republican state representative candidate Andrea DiLieto Zola — without voting “Republican.”
by | Sep 3, 2024 10:34 am | Comments (17)
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Ward 3 alder candidate Angel Hubbard kicks off the campaign launch: “I will never judge anyone for having an addiction. We do need programs.”
Rafael Rodriguez and Steven Fontanez (right) are working hard to help themselves and others out of addiction, as they told Hubbard, Valerie Boyd, and Justin Elicker.
Steven Fontanez is running out of time. He has only a few days left to stay at a sober housing program, and he hasn’t had luck finding an apartment.
Giselle Orosco is running out of patience. She’s tired of guessing whether the people who lie down outside her house are overdosing or merely asleep.
Angel Hubbard is running to be an alder for them both.
by | Aug 27, 2024 12:30 pm | Comments (2)
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Bartlett-Josie on the floor of the Chicago United Center at last week's Democratic National Convention.
Christine Bartlett-Josie’s phone is ringing again. Just as in 2008.
Continue reading ‘Bartlett-Josie Sees Kamala-mentum Continuing After Convention’
by | Aug 23, 2024 12:29 pm | Comments (2)
The writer with Gov. Ned Lamont.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is keeping a daily diary for the Independent this week as he attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
One word to describe Vice President Kamala Harris’s speech from last night: kaboom! I muttered a number of times during the speech to others nearby that she was crushing it. On the more objective measures, Kamala’s remarks met the moment in several critical respects.
Continue reading ‘Tong's DNC Diary Day 5: No Beyoncé, Kamala Delivers’
by | Aug 22, 2024 7:58 pm | Comments (1)
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DNC-invited digital whizzes at work at third-floor arena lounge.
Chicago — Legendary presidential campaign journalists Theodore H. White and Hunter S. Thompson didn’t live to cover the 2024 Democratic National Convention here. If they had, they might have found their bylines buried by a digital whiz called TizzyEnt who started building his seven-plus-million-strong audience with beer jokes and lip-synching videos.
TizzyEnt — aka central Floridian Michael McWhorter — is one of 200 “content creators” with a prime spot covering the convention at Chicago’s United Center.
Continue reading ‘"Content Creators" Crash Convention, Supplant "The Press"’
by | Aug 22, 2024 7:16 pm | Comments (11)
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Harris, and the band, at Thursday night's convention crescendo. Below: the crowd.
New Haven delegate Audrey Tyson invites U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro to join her in dancing to Stevie Wonder performing on night 3.
Chicago — Beyonce never performed as rumored at the United Center Thursday night — but Kamala Harris did.
Harris received a pop star’s reception as she delivered an acceptance speech as the first-ever Asian-American and Black female Democratic Party presidential nominee, at a convention that marked a new era in political conventions as political theater.