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Ward 18 challengers Zelema Harris and Sharon Braz congratulate Chris Avallone on his victory at Nathan Hale School.
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Victorious co-chair candidate Gary Hogan (at left) declared "a new Ward 28" in congratulating challenger Ephrat Lieblich (center) on a good race. Fellow victor Jess Corbett at right.
(Updated with official final results) A slate of insurgents raised issues — then ended up losing all their races Tuesday — in the city’s first competitive Democratic ward co-chair primaries in over a decade.
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Bishop Barber at NXTHVN: Poverty "preventable, avoidable, unnecessary."
How do you reconcile a moral crisis of loneliness with the economic toll of a stagnant minimum wage, and then reach “a more perfect union?”
Bishop William J. Barber II charted that path in a Dixwell sermon Tuesday that touched on biblical scripture, the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., the good deeds of his grandmother, the precariousness of swing-state voter turnout, and the fatal cruelty of poverty.
One candidate campaigning for ward co-chair in the Hill tried a novel campaign strategy, at least for a New Haven Democrat: Insulting immigrants, then insulting a constituent’s house.
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Colon (at left) at Saturday campaign rally.
Throughout my life I have fought for our city’s residents to be able to support their families and live dignified and fulfilling lives. Living in the Hill through economic struggle taught me that we win respect, dignity, and economic security by banding together, rolling up our sleeves, and doing the work required to address decades of racial segregation and policies that have benefited the powerful at the expense of the poor. We still have significant work to do, but building a movement that is focused on winning freedom for all New Haven residents has motivated my work as a union leader, an alder with 18 years of service, and a current co-chair for the Democratic Town Committee.
Candidates Dolores Colon and Doris Doward at Trowbridge Square Park rally.
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Jason Bartlett addresses challenge candidates at the Hill Museum.
(Updated Feb. 29) In a park and then in a pencil museum, separate groups of politicos gathered in the Hill on the same day to rally voters to show up for one of the most obscure, historically least competitive elected positions in town: Democratic Party ward co-chair.
Alder Streater at the 180 Center, where he works overnight.
Troy Streater turned the key to the Lloyd Street apartment door, walked inside, and inspected the fresh gray paint job he’d recently commissioned so new tenants can move in.
Hours later, he arrived at the 180 Center to make his trademark hazelnut coffee for clients who have no apartment to sleep in.
Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers to protesters... for 30 minutes: "I will meet with you afterwards."
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Inside the board chambers.
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A mayor’s vision of a booming city clashed with protesters’ vision of a world on fire — as pro-Palestinian activists held up the annual “State of the City” address in City Hall for half an hour on Monday night.
It didn’t “concern” Mayor Justin Elicker that protesters shouted down his annual “State of the City” address Monday night, he said.
“I am a little bit concerned about the dialogue,” he said. “I don’t think it was the most productive way to have a conversation. I also understand the frustration.”
Challenge slate co-organizer Jason Bartlett outside the Registrar of Voters office with candidates; some did, some didn't make the ballot.
As the nation already focuses on the November 2024 presidential races, New Haveners started campaigning for March 2024 elections for the most local of offices: party ward co-chair.
"I can't quit": Blumenthal fields sharp Qs from Mauro-Sheridan fifth-graders.
“If you had to either quit or work with Donald Trump as president, what would you do?”
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal faced that question and others about his role in the future of American democracy — not at a press conference, or on the Senate floor, but in Lauren Bitterman’s fifth-grade classroom at Mauro-Sheridan school.
Sharon Braz, Zelema Harris, Ephrat Lieblich, Solomon Maye, Mahogany Brooks, Dawn Bliesener, Jason Bartlett, Joe Fekieta, Dennis Serfilippi, Perry Flowers, Earl Ali-Randall, and Pastor Tarolyn Moore.
It looks like Democrats will have primary challengers for Democratic Town Committee co-chair elections come March.
SCSU officer escorts protester from Chamber breakfast forum.
Gov. Ned Lamont was beginning to tout Connecticut’s economy to a banquet hall of New Haven business leaders Wednesday morning when a dozen protesters swept into the room to protest the war in Gaza.
Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas at WNHH FM.
Stephanie Thomas said she was “as shocked as everybody else” when she saw a video of a Bridgeport campaign worker allegedly hauling stacks of harvested absentee ballots into a drop box.
All ears: Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie on the stump.
Epping, N.H. — I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I really like Chris Christie. Or at least I did when I caught up with him here on the trail of the first-in-the-nation Republican presidential primary.
Mayor Justin Elicker is sworn in for his third two-year term as mayor, surrounded his wife Natalie, daughters Molly and April, and mom Joan Elicker.
A Democrat, a second Democrat, a third Democrat, then dozens more Democrats all at once took oaths of office Monday to inaugurate the seventh straight two-year cycle of one-party government in New Haven.
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Pastor Valerie Washington, Imam Omer Bajwa, and Rabbi Eric Woodward after speaking at the inauguration.
Rabbi Eric Woodward and Imam Omer Bajwa didn’t compare notes before giving back-to-back invocations at Monday’s mayoral inauguration. They didn’t need to — they knew what to say. And they had similar messages to impart.
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Happier times: Russ Martin and Tom Goldenberg at a March campaign fundraiser.
A judge has ordered former Republican mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg to pay his former campaign manager Russ Martin an additional $500 for partially performed, but uncompensated, political work.
Democracy Fund's Aaron Goode, Sarah Ficca, Aly Heimer at WNHH FM.
Candidates who ran for mayor under New Haven’s public-financing system raised 90 percent of their money from New Haveners, 28 percent more than clean-elections-defying rivals.
They also raised more local donations: over 47,000 (totaling over $4 million) from 2011 – 2023 versus some 16,000 donations worth $2.6 million for nonparticipants.
Those metrics emerge from a newly released study of the New Haven Democracy Fund, which has administered the city’s public-financing program since its 2007 inception.
