How the dollars and cents add up: Budget Lab founders Danny Yagan, Natasha Sarin and Martha Gimbel.
Martha Gimbel’s new New Haven-based think tank is preparing to help the country figure out a crucial question next year once the smoke clears from this year’s federal election campaigns.
Juan Candelaria knew many Latinos cringed at the term “Latinx.” Others wanted to make sure that people who identify as neither a man nor a woman have a word that recognizes them.
Dems Dems Dems for Winter: State Rep. Josh Elliott, State Rep. Roland Lemar, Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett, New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker, State Sen. Martin Looney, Alder President Tyisha Walker-Myers, State Sen. Gary Winfield, and Alder Brittiany Mabery-Niblack.
Two mayors, dozens of state and local legislators, and a man who once ran against him for alder were among a crowd of New Haveners and Hamdenites who gathered on Monday to endorse Steve Winter for a rare open seat in the state legislature.
State legislative candidates Nyrell Moore and Johnnie McFadden at WNHH FM.
Nyrell Moore and Johnnie McFadden agree that voters in neighborhoods like the Hill should have a choice when they vote — and they’re presenting themselves as that choice this November.
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Student rep-elect Jonaily Colon (right) and challenger Vikram Dalal after Friday's election.
High School in the Community (HSC) sophomore Jonaily Colon prevailed in her bid to bring the voice of smaller high schools to the city’s Board of Education — after winning a school board student representative election to replace graduating Wilbur Cross High School senior Harmony Cruz-Bustamante.
New Haven Republicans have endorsed businesswoman Andrea Zola to run against incumbent Roland Lemar for the east side 96th state General Assembly District seat.
Local school administrator and Pastor Tarolyn Moore announced on Friday that she’s entering the race to win the Democratic nomination to represent the 94th General Assembly District.
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Mayor Elicker and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, surrounded by New Haven pizza-lovers on the steps of the U.S. Capitol: Pizza accomplished.
Georgia U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I like pizza."
“Nothing ah-beetz New Haven apizza!” Mayor Justin Elicker led the chants of 100 assembled New Haven pizza-makers and boosters on the steps of the U.S. Capitol as the delegation that had traveled to Washington, D.C. for the day reached its destination — to witness U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro enter a statement into the Congressional record declaring New Haven the “Pizza Capital of the United States.”
On the Capitol’s steps, DeLauro read from the declaration she had entered into the Congressional record Wednesday. She spoke about her family’s connection to New Haven pizza: “Frank and Filomena Pepe were at my parents’ wedding,” she said, and “my mom and Sal Consiglio played baseball together on Wooster Street.”
She reiterated the importance of the declaration as the rest of Connecticut’s congressional delegation joined her on the steps. “There are some naysayers from Chicago,” DeLauro said. “Really? No contest. Connecticut has the most pizzerias of any state per capita.”
Michael Massey will get his chance to take on U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro in November, now that he has won the Republican Party’s endorsement against an opponent who is not planning a primary.
Playing nice: Mutually complimentary 94th District office-seekers Abdul Osmanu & Steve Winter.
A next-generation primary contest is shaping up as a second candidate has emerged seeking the Democratic nomination for a New Haven-Hamden legislative district.
Changing of the guard: Incumbent Porter, nominee Winter.
It appears something momentous will happen this year in New Haven: Voters will elect a new state legislator, for the first time in eight years.
That’s because incumbent State Rep. Robyn Porter did not show up to a convention Wednesday night to receive the Democratic Party’s endorsement to run for a sixth two-year term representing the 94th General Assembly District.
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Juniors Josh, Radwaa, and A'Mere map out the Salvadoran Civil War.
Hill Regional Career High School junior Josh Burgess wrote the words “causes and effects of Salvadoran Civil War 1980s” inside a circle, and then drew lines connecting the words “historic inequality,” “murder,” and “oligarchs” to that circle.
He did so as part of an African American and Latino studies course that encourages students to understand how different parts of world history relate to one another — and that builds off of recent state legislation designed to boost the diversity of topics covered in Connecticut social studies classrooms.
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Audrey Tyson, serving as a DNC delegate in 2016 in Philadelphia: "Tearful" with excitement upon learning she'd be a 2024 delegate in Chicago, too.
At the Chicago DNC ... in 1968.
Eight New Haven-area Democrats have won the chance to help officially select their party’s presidential nominee this summer at what’s shaping up to be an uncontested — but plenty contentious — Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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At Lincoln Bassett's polling place on Tuesday.
More voters in East Rock’s Ward 9 cast their ballots for “Uncommitted” than for incumbent President Joe Biden in Tuesday’s low-turnout Democratic presidential primary.
Still, Biden handily won the virtually uncontested contest, both in New Haven and across Connecticut — even as a protest option that has become a rallying cry for pro-Palestinian activists notched more than 21 percent of city Democrats’ votes.
Rafael Irizarry could afford to spend all day relaxing or hitting the links. Instead he’s running to become the first Latino to represent Greater New Haven in the U.S. Congress.
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Cyn Chegwidden at Nathan Hale, ready to vote for Biden.
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Kanvi Kane and Robert Beauvogui at King Robinson: "Everything starts right now" for momentum for November.
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Ulissis Artero at 200 Orange: Ceasefire backer, voting for Biden.
(Updated) “Biden all the way,” said Cyn Chegwidden as she crossed the quiet mid-morning parking lot of Nathan Hale School on her way to the Ward 18 polling station to vote in Tuesday’s presidential primary. “I’m terribly worried, and I hope people are realizing how important this election is.”
Lieberman: He felt abandoned by some of his old allies in New Haven.
Former U.S. Sen. and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, a leading New Haven and Connecticut politician of the past half century whose independent streak reflected an American shift away from loyalty to established party institutions, is dead at 82.
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Republican and Democratic registrars of voters Marlene Napolitano and Shannel Evans on Friday.
New Haveners can start casting early ballots in person (but not for very long) next week for the first time — even if this particular vote might not have much at stake.
The election is a Democratic and a Republican presidential primary. Officially the primary takes place April 2. But Connecticut is embarking on a newly approved plan to allow some days of early voting, which begins next Tuesday.
Massey at WNHH FM: "Let people do what they want with their money."
Michael Massey found Donald Trump in prison. Now he’s living straight — and running for Congress with a mission to boost the role of fellow ”Urban Black” Republicans in their party.
Ordinance's first beneficiary, CAO Regina Rush-Kittle.
A handful of high-up local officials can apply to live outside of New Haven, as long as they can demonstrate a “critical need” or “extraordinary hardship” associated with living within city bounds after serving in their roles for at least a year.
