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Yale Avenue, Tuesday.
Bernie Sanders electrified New Haven with an historic rally on the Green — then his campaign got clobbered on the streets in Tuesday’s presidential primary.
Continue reading ‘Clinton Takes New Haven 58-42, As Sanders Camp Punts On Black Voters’
by | Apr 26, 2016 8:19 am | Comments (7)
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Bill Clinton at Wilbur Cross Monday night.
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Eryn Ifill and Clinton selfie.
Just 22 hours after hearing Bernie Sanders thunder away on the New Haven Green and deciding she was officially feeling the Bern, Eryn Ifill was in no mood to hear former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, Giffords’ husband Mark Kelly, and former U.S. President Bill Clinton speak at Wilbur Cross High School’s gym on the eve of Tuesday’s primary.
by | Apr 25, 2016 12:06 pm | Comments (0)
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Cobbs-Lomax.
PSSST: There’s a presidential primary happening!
Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio debate the merits of presidential hopefuls Bernie Sanders, Ted Cruz, and Hillary Clinton; explore ways to help uninsured or underinsured New Haveners get the health care they need, preview this weekend’s Rock to Rock bike ride, and more.
by | Apr 24, 2016 11:38 pm | Comments (45)
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The scene on the Green.
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Sanders on New Haven’s Green Sunday night.
The largest political crowd in decades filled the Green Sunday night as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders brought his income-inequality message to New Haven with an Elm City twist: contrasting Yale’s $25.57 billion endowment with the struggles of young people in the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods.
by | Apr 24, 2016 11:22 pm | Comments (6)
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Clinton, at center, with Rep. DeLauro and Williams on her left, and Rodriguez and Sandra Wincze at left.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign spent the weekend in New Haven leading with strong suits — an appeal to feminism from America’s potential first female president, and trying to shore up support from black voters, particularly black women voters. It also sought to strenghten a weak spot — the candidate’s position on the minimum wage.
Continue reading ‘Clinton Campaign Hits Feminist, Wage Themes In Busy Weekend In Town’
by | Apr 24, 2016 10:15 pm | Comments (0)
New Haven activist Barbara Fair organized a Sanders rally in front of the courthouse on Saturday afternoon.
A day before Bernie Sanders drew over 10,000 supporters to a mass rally on the Green, some of his local backers held a small rally of their own to highlight theirs and the campaign’s call for criminal justice reform.
Continue reading ‘Criminal Justice Reformers Rally For Sanders’
by | Apr 22, 2016 4:24 pm | Comments (13)
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The Bernie Sanders campaign has confirmed that the Democratic presidential candidate will appear Sunday at a “A Future to Believe in New Haven Rally” featuring musician Michael Stipe, on the New Haven Green beginning at 7 p.m.
by | Apr 20, 2016 7:30 am | Comments (0)
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Yarboro and Rawls-Ivy.
Bethea.
The gloves are coming off in the WNHH studio. Today’s broadcasts explore the ins and outs of the upcoming Connecticut Democratic presidential primary with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton supporters, ask tough questions about racially motivated violence in New Haven, do battle with some intensely masculine fiction, and more.
by | Apr 19, 2016 7:46 am | Comments (9)
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McBath (above), Nance-Holt (below) at Clinton event.
Thanks to a competitive race for president, Annette Nance-Holt was on Kimberly Avenue Monday telling the story of how a gang member’s stray bullet killed her 16-year-old son Blair on a Chicago city bus. Lucia McBath was there, too, recalling how a 47-year-old man shot dead her unarmed 17-year-old son Jordan after starting an argument about Jordan’s loud music.
by | Apr 19, 2016 7:27 am | Comments (0)
Angela and Bruce Oren in the WNHH studio.
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Rawlings.
For Jim Rawlings, board chair of The Sickle Cell Disease Association of America of Southern Connecticut, getting involved in the fight against sickle cell anemia wasn’t an issue of if, so much as one as when and how. Today’s broadcasts on WNHH radio explore that, and more.
by | Apr 16, 2016 9:38 pm | Comments (17)
The long political trek towards Connecticut’s April 26 presidential primary hit Westville Saturday as both Democratic camps landed on the same block.
by | Apr 15, 2016 8:00 am | Comments (9)
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The crowd at Clinton’s Christy’s debate-watching party.
When I walked into Christy’s Irish Pub Thursday night looking for a Democratic presidential debate party, I thought I’d gone to the wrong place.
Continue reading ‘Clinton Christy’s Crew Feels The Slow Burn’
by | Apr 15, 2016 7:38 am | Comments (7)
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Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said Hillary Clinton’s take on criminal justice has progressed in the last couple of decades, making her uniquely poised to be the next president.
Continue reading ‘Philly Mayor Defends Clinton On Crime Bill’
by | Apr 9, 2016 8:07 pm | Comments (3)
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Lisa Bassani and Esther Armmand post flyers at Pitkin Plaza.
Their ranks small but diverse, but “Connecticut Moms 4 Hillary” braved the cold Saturday morning to raise a mighty and united voice for the candidate they want to see make history as the first female president of the U.S.
by | Apr 8, 2016 3:58 pm | Comments (0)
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Ruggiero
Today’s shows on WNHH radio debated the upcoming primary, explore Connecticut’s food scene, delve into the history of birdhouses (yes, you read that correctly) in New Haven, and more.
by | Apr 8, 2016 7:42 am | Comments (6)
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Sanders surrogate Turner brings down the house.
While Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders wrestled in the mud in New York State, two of their highest-profile surrogates swooped into New Haven for a passionate forum of their own — that ended with a kumbaya moment.
by | Apr 7, 2016 7:57 am | Comments (11)
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Dean pep-talks Cinton’s Yalies.
The original internet-powered presidential candidate kicked off a local Hillary Clinton phone-banking operation by declaring that the web can’t match human contact for getting out the vote.
by | Apr 5, 2016 4:05 pm | Comments (8)
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Lanzot pounds the streets of Fair Haven Heights.
Making his way up a steep set of stone steps on Lexington Avenue, Eleazar Lanzot took stock of a big white house, then landed six raps on the front door.
“Hello!” Lanzot said, smiling. “I’m Eleazar, from the Bernie Sanders Campaign. Do you know that the Connecticut primary is April 26?”
by | Feb 29, 2016 8:22 am | Comments (0)
Connecticut’s presidential primary doesn’t take place for another two months, but New Haveners have a chance to participate in the action tomorrow on “Super Tuesday.”
by | Feb 12, 2016 5:19 pm | Comments (4)
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New Haven’s Patton with his new political-campaign board game.
As voters prepared to hit the polls, the Zombie Neurosurgeon was on his way to victory. Until The Hairpiece unleashed an unforgivable smear.
Who knew that politics could be so … unjust?
by | Feb 10, 2016 6:10 pm | Comments (2)
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Sanders at a get-out-the-vote rally in Keene, N.H.
How come nobody’s mentioning that for first time in U.S. history, a Jewish candidate — Democrat Bernie Sanders — won a presidential primary Tuesday night?And does Donald Trump’s similarly “huge” victory in the Republican primary signal a fascist turn in American politics?
by | Feb 10, 2016 2:42 pm | Comments (9)
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New BFFs on the trail: Christie and “supporter” Anderson.
Hudson, N.H. — Midway through a town hall campaign event at Gilchrist Metal Fabricating Company, Chris Christie zeroed in on a man at left of center stage, four rows back, whose hand had been raised for four or five minutes.
“Sir,” Christie pointed to the man, a New Haven Democrat operating undercover as a Nashua native concerned about the economy.
by | Feb 9, 2016 8:36 am | Comments (5)
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McLean and class at the rally..
Manchester, N.H. — Less than 12 hours from the start of the first-in-the-nation primary, Quinnipiac University Professor Scott McLean had an assignment for his road-weary students: Attend a Donald Trump rally as one of his staunch supporters, sporting red campaign swag and foam pointers for believability. Stick it out through every vitriolic comment and unexpected jab. And then, if they were willing to shake their cover just a little, give it a grade.
by | Feb 8, 2016 4:07 pm | Comments (2)
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Ganong at New Hampshire Dems dinner before hitting doors.
Webster, N.H. — Making her way through the windy, snow-covered curves of Deer Meadow Road, Sarah Ganong of New Haven trudged down a long driveway, sidestepping patches of thick ice from a winter storm. Perhaps most challenging of all, Ganong and fellow canvasser Angie Parkinson were approaching the door of an independent who has voted Republican in the past.
by | Feb 8, 2016 1:05 pm | Comments (1)
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New Haven Votes’ Aaron Goode joins “Rebellion.”
Manchester, N.H. — Wrapped up in three layers, a yellow traffic vest, and signature top hat, Aaron Goode looked through a clump of equally bright vests as presidential dreamer Laurence Lessig took the makeshift stage, a circle of shoveled pavement by the entrance to Manchester’s snow-blanketed veterans park.