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.
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Aug 23, 2024 12:29 pm
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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.
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.
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.
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Aug 22, 2024 12:29 pm
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Connecticut's AG with Illinois U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (center).
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is keeping a daily diary for the Independent this week as he attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Chicago — Who’ll rock the United Center more tonight: Veep nominee Tim Walz? Or … Stevie Wonder?
You’re invited to weigh that and other weighty questions on the third night of the Democratic National Convention by tuning in to both the action on the floor (above) and the NHI team live-blog (below).
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Aug 21, 2024 1:12 pm
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A view from the convention floor as Michelle Obama took the stage.
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is keeping a daily diary for the Independent this week as he attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Aug 20, 2024 8:01 pm
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Chicago — Does Barack Obama still have the gift of giving Democratic crowds goosebumps? And what would that mean for this year’s presidential election?
Those are among the questions we’ll be weighing Tuesday night as the New Haven Independent team live-blogs the second night of the Democratic National Convention. You’re invited to watch along, and read long, with us!
New Haven convention power couple Rosa DeLauro and Stanley Greenberg at Tuesday's strategy confab.
Chicago — The media’s not fooling voters into worrying about the economy. They’re generally worried. Democratic elites need to recognize that fact to win national elections.
Stanley Greenberg, the New Haven campaign guru who helped Bill Clinton (and then Tony Blair and Nelson Mandela) win national elections, offered that take during a Democratic National Convention week panel focused on strategies for winning not just the 2024 presidential election, but future ones as well.
From generation to generation: Oldest delegate Carter; youngest delegate Schonberger Monday evening on the convention floor.
Chicago — The youngest delegate participating in Tuesday’s roll call at the United Center affirming the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz Democratic presidential ticket got his start handing out palm cards in fourth grade for Hillary Clinton outside New Haven’s Mauro-Sheridan School.
Angel Hubbard and Miguel Pittman are vying for a Hill North Board of Alders seat.
Local restaurateur Miguel Pittman and home healthcare provider Angel Hubbard are officially running to replace former Alder Ron Hurt in a special election to determine who will represent the Hill’s Ward 3 on the Board of Alders.
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Aug 20, 2024 2:31 pm
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Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is keeping a daily diary for the Independent this week as he attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
I said yesterday that we needed a signature moment, one that shakes the floors and blows the roof off. We just got started, so I don’t want to pronounce the Kaboom too early and detract from a signature moment by saying that everything was a signature moment. But last night at the Democratic National Convention we had a couple of moments that certainly came close.
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Aug 19, 2024 7:08 pm
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Chicago — Night 1 of the Democratic National Convention will look like Night 4 was originally intended to look like: President Joe Biden delivering a keynote address, after a line-up including AOC and Hillary Clinton. Now, instead of accepting his party’s nomination to run for reelection with an effort toward a rousing convention-finale speech, he’s scheduled to join the opening night’s speakers to start the week going. Join the Independent team for a live play-by-play and commentary below.
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Aug 19, 2024 6:37 pm
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Arrival: William Tong with U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney and New Haven Democratic Town Committee Vice-Chair Audrey Tyson,
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong is keeping a daily diary for the Independent this week as he attends the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
I am writing here on Monday morning from LaGuardia Airport waiting for my flight to Chicago. I hear I missed the big Connecticut delegation party yesterday at Bradley. I’m on the same flight as my good friend Congresswoman Grace Meng of New York, so the Asian American representation is strong on American 0386.
I must admit to feeling a bit anxious. There’s a pit in my stomach that’s not going to go away until I see President Harris take her oath. There’s some real-life reckoning peeking through the confidence, optimism and joy that Democrats are riding right now.
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Aug 19, 2024 4:39 pm
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U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro with State Comptroller Sean Scanlon, State Treasurer Erick Russell, and U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar at DNC politics-and-pizza party.
Chicago — New Haven delegates and Connecticut politicians kicked off their time at the Chicago DNC with loaded deep dish pizza — and delved deeper into how to cook up a winning campaign over slices with a Minnesotan dinner guest, U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
New Haven DNC delegates Audrey Tyson and Marty Dunleavy await the flight Sunday from Bradley International Airport to the Windy City.
Chicago — New Haven’s Marty Dunleavy can be counted on to cheer when the Democratic Party formally christens the Harris-Walz presidential ticket here this week. He and fellow delegates will have lots of less glamorous work to do before that.
I don’t remember all that happened when I camped with other young antiwar protesters outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
I do remember — as the nation is remembering now on the eve of next week’s Democratic National Convention — that young antiwar protesters assembled there to try to stop an unjust war, and ended up being attacked by rioting police officers on national television, while the Democratic Party tried unsuccessfully to rally around a last-minute change in who ran for president.
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Winter hugs Newhallville Alder Brittiany Mabery-Niblack at Chazmo's.
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Osmanu with current State Rep. Robyn Porter after polls closed.
(Updated) Steve Winter emerged on top of a three-way Democratic primary for the open 94th state General Assembly seat, after winning the race with 61 percent of the vote.
