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Ward 11 alder candidates Gail Roundtree, Henry "Rodney" Murphy, and Ira Johnson.
Local Democrats have picked 59-year-old Bella Vista resident and political newcomer Henry “Rodney” Murphy to replace the late Renee Haywood as their last-minute candidate for Ward 11 alder in Tuesday’s general election.
That means that Murphy — a Greater New Haven Transit District operations manager, embroidery enthusiast, and avid drone flyer — has just a few days to convince his neighbors to cast their ballots for him instead of for Republican challenger Gail Roundtree and write-in candidate Ira Johnson, both of whom have unsuccessfully run for local office before.
Republican challenger Dave Agosta and Democratic incumbent Eli Sabin, both running for Ward 7 alder.
The quest for denser and more affordable housing, safer streets, smoother sidewalks, and a more accessible city for people with disabilities is driving this year’s contested alder race in East Rock/Downtown’s Ward 7 — along with online messages from the aldermanic challenger that made unsupported accusations of attempted murder and “intimidation,” some of which he called “satirical,” some sincere.
Two Wooster Square residents running for alder convened for a debate — and sketched out diverging visions for policing, addiction treatment, and the legitimacy of the Republican Party.
Mayoral opponents / allies Wendy Hamilton and Tom Goldenberg, with a poster designed by Bill Saunders.
At a joint press conference on Monday, mayoral challengers Tom Goldenberg and Wendy Hamilton agreed on what they wouldn’t do if elected mayor — namely, they wouldn’t “sell” a block of High Street to Yale University.
“An anti-democracy zealot” committed to slashing social welfare and rolling back rights for gay people and women has risen to the highest rank of the U.S. House of Representatives.
A man “prepared to foist his religious beliefs on everyone else.”
Mayor Elicker: "We cannot wait another 20 years to have a government that runs effectively and efficiently."
Confident in a victory at the polls in November’s contested mayoral election, Democrats from across the city and state turned their attention to a more uncertain proposition: a charter revision ballot question that, if approved, would increase mayoral and aldermanic terms from two to four years each.
A New Haven native and Yale New Haven Hospital secretary is running unopposed to become the next alder for Ward 12 — with a focus on finding some way to calm traffic on the neighborhood’s car-crazy stretch of Rt. 80.
Alder Sal DeCola and challenger Lisa Milone when they competed for the same alder seat in 2015.
A (successful) petition urging write-in candidate Campion: "Run Susan Run!"
This November, Morris Cove residents will see two names on their ballots — and have the option of writing in a third — as they decide whom to support for Ward 18 alder.
Mayor Justin Elicker, Tom Goldenberg, and Wendy Hamilton on Tuesday.
What do you call a registered Democrat running for office on the Independent and Republican lines?
Mayoral candidates offered different takes on that question — and whether the question even matters — at the final debate before November’s general election.
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Ward 13 alder hopefules: Green challenger Paul Garlinghouse, Democratic incumbent Rosa Ferraro-Santana, and Republican challenger Deborah Reyes.
A three-way alder race in Fair Haven Heights pits an incumbent Democrat focused on parks against Green and Republican challengers raising concerns about single-party rule at City Hall.
Pastors Cesar Padilla, Teresa Rivera, and Miguel Castro: Each overcame addiction "when the Lord Jesus came in our lives."
Three pastors and a mayoral challenger took to the steps of City Hall to criticize the Elicker administration for even considering establishing a safe-use injection site downtown — with the clergy arguing that spirituality is the best balm for addiction, and the Republican candidate claiming that city government is further along in such a plan than it has made itself out to be.
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Ward 11 Alder Renee Haywood, on the campaign trail in 2017.
Renee Haywood, a long-time Bella Vista resident and advocate for the disabled who represented Ward 11 on the Board of Alders for nearly six years even as she underwent dialysis, died on Friday. She was 60.
The final mayoral debate in a year chock-full of them will take place at the Shubert Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m., as two-term incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker and challengers Tom Goldenberg and Wendy Hamilton will take the stage.
Kiana Flores, at a 2019 climate rally outside City Hall.
As a Co-Op high school student, Kiana Flores helped convince the Board of Alders to pass a climate emergency resolution.
As a Yale college student, she’ll soon have a chance to put such eco-friendly policy priorities into practice — after she runs unopposed to become the next alder representing downtown’s Ward 1.
Darnell Goldson at Monday's Board of Education meeting.
Darnell Goldson has officially ended his bid for reelection to the Board of Education, winding down a nearly eight-year stretch helping govern the school system — and leaving school board candidate Andrea Downer uncontested in her run to take Goldson’s place.
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Oct 16, 2023 8:02 pm
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Former Alder and State Rep. Andrea Jackson-Brooks.
Andrea Jackson-Brooks, a Hill alder and state representative whose decades-long career in politics earned her widespread admiration for her commitment to public service, passed away on Sunday. She was 79.
Chris Murphy asks Raisa about her family as she shows him a photo of her daughter.
As 85-year-old Raisa pulled up a photograph of her daughter on her iPhone, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy took a break from walking across Fair Haven Heights to ask her a question.
Democratic candidate Mayor Justin Elicker and Republican challenger Tom Goldenberg.
Mayor Justin Elicker and mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg both headed into the final month before November’s general election with around $13,000 left in their respective campaign coffers.
That’s just about the only campaign-finance-report similarity between the two candidates, as the incumbent Democrat has pulled in nearly $200,000 more in individual donations than the Republican first-timer over the course of this campaign year — even as Elicker has participated in the public-financing Democracy Fund, and Goldenberg has not.
As for the latest three-month quarter between the start of July and the end of September, Elicker’s campaign raised around $62,000 in individual contributions, while Goldenberg’s raised around $13,000.
Mayoral hopeful Tom Goldenberg with Knickerbocker regular Willie Holmes and club Vice President Patty Newton-Foster.
The Knickerbocker's castle-like clubhouse at 715 Sherman Pkwy.
Willie Holmes stepped into the Knickerbocker on Wednesday night for the same reason that he’s been showing up to the Newhallville African American golf club’s events for the past 75 years: to relax with friends, talk about the pleasures of golf and the state of Black New Haven, grab a drink, and mix it up with local political power players and those looking to join their ranks.
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Oct 2, 2023 5:46 pm
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End Hunger Connecticut's Lucy Nolan: A shutdown would be "horrendous" for families in need of food.
If the federal government shuts down, state agencies and local organizations can only do so much to stop children from going hungry, seniors from shivering in the winter, and healthcare centers from shuttering.
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Surprised non-Democrat Anthony Carter, with Bella Vista moderator Patricia Solomon.
“I’ve been a Democrat all my life,” said May, an 81-year-old Newhallville resident who said she’s voted at Lincoln-Bassett School every election since she bought her home in 1985.
Except she wasn’t a Democrat on Tuesday. She found out from a moderator that she had been re-registered as an “unaffiliated” voter, ineligible to vote in the primary.
May was one of at least dozens of people across the city to find out on Tuesday that they couldn’t vote because they weren’t Democrats. To many, including May, that news came as an inexplicable surprise.
Tom Goldenberg: "This is quid pro quo politics. This is non-transparency. This is corruption."
The city’s Republican candidate for mayor kicked off his post-Democratic primary general election campaign by lobbing accusations of corruption at the Elicker administration in its dealings with a local methadone clinic — claims that the current mayor dismissed as “fearmongering politics,” “ridiculous,” “unethical,” and coming at the expense of some of New Haven’s most vulnerable populations.
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"Vanilla" match: Govs. Rell and Lamont.
(Opinion) I am not looking forward to the next 14 months in the world of politics. That’s how long we have until the 2024 presidential election, which is looking like a rematch between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump. The shouting about Hunter Biden, Georgia election interference and everything else is only going to become more shrill the closer we get to November 2024. Can’t politics be a little less confrontational, and a little more civil?
