by | Aug 13, 2024 2:35 pm | Comments (1)
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Signs of the times, outside of Wexler Grant's polling place.
Ponytails and pairs of glasses have been popping up all over parts of Dixwell and Newhallville, in a show of support for candidates in a race not many might typically pay close attention to — a summer primary for state representative.
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Building a changing city, at YNHH's new neuroscience center.
Ernest Pagan is the president of Carpenters Union Local 326.
New Haven’s landscape is transforming. At this point, it’s undeniable.
Continue reading ‘Opinion: Why The Carpenters Union Endorsed Steve Winter’
by | Aug 9, 2024 2:30 pm | Comments (6)
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Abdul Osmanu, Steve Winter, and Tarolyn Moore after the debate.
“Like Abdul just said…”
“I do kind of agree with Steve…”
“Tarolyn’s exactly right…”
“My answer was what he said!”
Phrases like these were heard frequently at a political debate on Thursday evening, where three state representative candidates agreed more than they disagreed on issues such as tenants’ rights, income inequality, teacher pay, and the role of deep listening in politics.
Continue reading ‘State Rep Candidates Debate ... & Largely Agree’
by | Aug 6, 2024 12:47 pm | Comments (32)
Blumenthal (right): VP pick Walz is the real deal.
“A straight-talking, plain-spoken Midwesterner [who] has every-day American values.”
That’s how U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal described Tim Walz on Tuesday morning as he welcomed the current Minnesota governor, and Blumenthal’s former Veterans’ Affairs Committee congressional colleague, as Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s new running mate.
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Legal aid, the Room for All coalition, and Christian Community Action will be holding a candidate forum on Thursday in the runup to the Aug. 13 Democratic primary for the 94th General Assembly district state representative race.
Three candidates are on the ballot, and will be on the debate stage at Albertus Magnus College: Steve Winter, Abdul Osmanu, and Taroyln Moore. Early voting in that contest began on Monday.
See above for details, and click here, here, here, here, here, here, and here to read more about the race, which gives New Haven Democrats the first time in eight years to pick a new state legislator.
by | Aug 5, 2024 1:29 pm | Comments (0)
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Voter's Clerk Cynthia Cavo scans Steve Winter's early voting envelope.
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Fellow state rep candidate Abdul Osmanu, voting early in Hamden.
Steve Winter didn’t have to walk far from his second-floor City Hall office on Monday to cast his ballot on the first day of early voting — in a Democratic primary where he himself is a candidate for state representative.
by and | Aug 2, 2024 1:50 pm | Comments (35)
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Ron Hurt.
Apologizing for “disappointing” the community, Hill Alder Ron Hurt has stepped down from his elected post — as well as his visible community organizing role — in the wake of a controversy involving his former job at a drug rehabilitation facility.
by | Aug 2, 2024 10:46 am | Comments (2)
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Alders-For-A-Day Ada Akdağ and Melissa Rodriguez at work learning about Keiry Pena and Joseph Jenkins' deli dreams.
Two “alders” checked in on a couple’s revived East Street deli, talked street improvements with a development official, blasted the news to constituents — and dreamed about what they want to be when they grow up.
by | Jul 30, 2024 4:11 pm | Comments (20)
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Andrea DiLieto Zola at WNHH FM.
Andrea DiLieto Zola is knocking on Wooster Square doors asking voters to do something new this November — elect a New Haven Republican to the state legislature.
by | Jul 24, 2024 11:31 am | Comments (15)
Skip the political theater. Focus on human lives at risk
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DTC Chair Vincent Mauro Jr. at WNHH FM.
Vincent Mauro Jr. is all in with his party’s new plan to elect Kamala Harris the next president of the United States.
He’s not down with how it all came about. In fact he has a gripe with his party.
Continue reading ‘Mauro Blasts National Party For Keeping Locals In Dark About Biden’
by | Jul 22, 2024 12:53 pm | Comments (2)
Susan Bysiewicz was ready to endorse Kamala Harris for president in New Haven Monday.
But to make it official, she had to wait for her boss — the way Harris had to wait for her boss to clear the way to seek the Democratic nomination.
Continue reading ‘Bysiewicz Endorses "Glass Ceiling Breaker" For President’
by | Jul 21, 2024 4:35 pm | Comments (51)
Early local favorites: Harris (left) for prez; Murphy (right) for veep?
Top New Haven Democrats coalesced quickly Sunday behind Kamala Harris as their party’s presidential nominee now that Joe Biden has announced he will not seek reelection.
At least two local Dems, including one delegate to next month’s party convention, added U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (who often shows up on lists of potential future presidential candidates) as their favored running mate to take on the Donald Trump‑J.D. Vance Republican ticket.
by | Jul 20, 2024 10:42 pm | Comments (12)
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Milwaukee — (Analysis) For the last night of the Republican National Convention, viewers turned on the television to see a series of scripted attempts to make a 78-year-old man wearing a diaper on his ear come across as the hulky champion of a prime time fight. Inside the Fiserv Forum convention hall, I saw a different show play out.
Continue reading ‘Feeble From The Floor: RNC's Testosterone-Trip TV Finale, Viewed Up Close’
by | Jul 17, 2024 8:30 pm | Comments (13)
Canadian and Harley-Davidson rider Sean July stumbled upon the RNC meet-up: "It's cool that it's going on. I think Trump's cool."
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A Republican ride?
Milwaukee – Ex‑U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and his cover band “The Diplomats” pulled up to the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee during the third day of the Republican Nominating Convention to strut their stuff, show their support for Trump, and trigger Easy Rider sentimentalism with a rendition of Steppenwolf’s classic rocker “Born to Be Wild.”
Continue reading ‘Harley Hogs Let Wild Sides Loose At RNC BBQ’
by | Jul 16, 2024 8:52 pm | Comments (1)
Not that they're praising Democrats: Former Trump acting AG Matthew Whitaker, at left in photo with attendees after antitrust panel.
Milwaukee — Amid another day of Biden-bashing here at the Republican National Convention, a little-noticed breakout session Tuesday afternoon featured discussion of emerging common ground between some MAGA Republicans and liberal Democrats.
Continue reading ‘Shhhh!: GOP Panel Almost Sort Of Agrees With Biden’
by | Jul 15, 2024 7:27 pm | Comments (2)
The Day 1 scene from the Connecticut delegation's section on the convention floor.
Milwaukee — Connecticut Republicans joined a convention floor full of delegates Monday in shouting “Yay!” as U.S. Sen. and Yale law grad J.D. Vance was unanimously nominated as GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s vice-presidential running mate.
Continue reading ‘Nutmeg State Delegates Join In Ad-Vancing Trump's GOP Pick’
by | Jul 15, 2024 3:55 pm | Comments (5)
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Blumenthal at Monday's presser.
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal declined to speculate how the attempted assassination of former President Trump might affect the ongoing campaigns or the roiling issue of whether President Joe Biden should remain the Democratic Party’s flag-bearer.
He did say, “We need to come together to condemn all political violence and to stop it.”
Continue reading ‘Blumenthal: Unite Against Political Violence, Keep Supporting Biden’
by | Jul 15, 2024 3:50 pm | Comments (17)
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Nadine Seiler: "I'm here protesting on behalf of Project 2025."
Milwaukee — While the attempted assassination of Donald Trump has muted his Democratic rivals, grassroots protesters from around the country descended here en masse for his presidential nominating convention as vocal as ever and determined to keep protest alive.
Continue reading ‘Assassination Attempt Doesn't Dampen Protests’
by | Jul 15, 2024 12:00 pm | Comments (17)
As Democrats nationwide pull back on criticizing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the wake of Saturday’s attempted assassination, state Attorney General William Tong promised to continue to speak out about the high stakes of this year’s election.
“Saying that we’re in a fight for our democracy is not wrong, it’s true,” he said in New Haven on Monday. “We’re going to continue to do that.”
by | Jul 15, 2024 11:33 am | Comments (3)
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Image of a bloodied but defiant Trump was used in a fundraising appeal Sunday.
MILWAUKEE — The image of a bloodied Donald J. Trump defiantly pumping his fist after Saturday’s assassination attempt is certain to loom large over the Republican National Convention that opens here Monday.
by | Jul 11, 2024 12:39 pm | Comments (13)
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Steve Winter with pooch pal Toly on the campaign trail.
So you have a school that needs repairs.
You have a planet that needs fewer carbon emissions.
You have a neighborhood where people pay too much for electricity.
Steve Winter has an idea about how to address those three needs at once — and where to find buckets of money to do it.
Continue reading ‘Candidate Winter Has A Geo-Winterizing Idea’
by | Jul 10, 2024 9:34 am | Comments (11)
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Justin Trudeau's half-brother promoting RFK Jr. and open-source peace-through-dance on Church Street.
An AI-generated reggae song blasted onto the Green Tuesday afternoon from atop a cross-country bus on a mission to elect a third-party presidential candidate — while bringing about world peace through “high-vibration” partying.
by | Jul 1, 2024 4:29 pm | Comments (2)
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Winter with canine campaign aide Toly on the trail.
State representative candidate Steve Winter has qualified for public financing, his campaign announced Monday.
Continue reading ‘Winter Campaign Meets Clean Green Threshold’
by | Jul 1, 2024 12:37 pm | Comments (8)
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Abdul Osmanu and John Vargas: Electricity bills have gotten "insane."
Carrying a white tote bag and a handful of door hangers and a campaign pitch focused on affordable housing and powered by youthful activism, Abdul Osmanu knocked on door after door after door after door in his bid to become the next state representative for Newhallville, Prospect Hill, and southern Hamden.
At the age of 22, he’d already been there before.