by | Mar 24, 2022 10:31 am | Comments (3)
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Bond at Wednesday evening mActivity fundraiser.
Before Women’s History Month ends, Maritza Bond plans to announce whether she’ll pursue her own bid for history by running for secretary of the state.
Continue reading ‘Bond Resumes In-Person Fundraisers, Nears Official Decision On Sec'y Of State Run’
by | Mar 11, 2022 1:34 pm | Comments (9)
... alongside two recent electric additions to the state's bus fleet.
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U.S. Sen. Murphy (right) with bus drivers Jermaine and Sylvia...
Twenty-two new electric buses should hit the streets of New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, and Stamford over the next year and a half, thanks in part to a newly awarded $11.4 million federal grant to help the state transportation department wean itself off of fossil fuels.
by | Mar 8, 2022 4:13 pm | Comments (22)
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Catherine John: Let's talk about it.
New Haven social-justice activist Catherine “CJ” John is on a crusade to eliminate “period poverty” in Connecticut.
Continue reading ‘Support Rallied For Menstrual Products Bill’
by | Mar 4, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (0)
Towns and cities always do a better job with taxpayer dollars than the state.
Continue reading ‘Top State House Republican: Trust The Towns’
by | Feb 28, 2022 4:56 pm | Comments (4)
Gov. Ned Lamont Monday at a general Q&A with reporters following an international-trade presser, held at New Haven's DISTRICT NHV offices of Connecticut Innovations.
Ned Lamont would rather cut property taxes than sales taxes. And he’d rather let New Haven’s school district makes its own decision about mask-wearing.
Continue reading ‘Lamont: I Won't Pull A DeSantis On New Haven’
by | Feb 28, 2022 1:52 pm | Comments (10)
Gov. Ned Lamont bit into a lab-grown mini-chicken shawarma in Israel — and tasted future jobs back home in Connecticut.
by | Feb 25, 2022 2:46 pm | Comments (3)
WFP State Director Sarah Ganong at WNHH FM.
Sarah Ganong wants baristas and burger-flippers to know what hours they’ll work each week without having to rush in on an hour’s notice, or lock up at night only to open back up at 6 a.m.
She also wants you to consider running for elected office if you’d like to help make that and other improvements in working people’s lives become possible.
Continue reading ‘New WFP Director Focuses On "Clopenings" & Candidate Recruits’
by | Feb 24, 2022 5:45 pm | Comments (4)
Two incarcerated individuals died and one correctional officer was revived with Narcan Thursday after suspected fentanyl overdoses at the Whalley Avenue jail.
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by | Feb 24, 2022 4:25 pm | Comments (3)
Newly tapped state judge nominees: Scott Jones, Tara Knight, and Cherie Phoenix-Sharpe.
New Haven’s top public defender, a former City Hall attorney, a Yale Law School instructor, and two Hamden-based personal injury lawyers are en route to becoming state judges, thanks to a sweep of appointments by Gov. Ned Lamont.
Continue reading ‘4 Hamdenites, 1 New Havener Tapped For State Judgeships’
by | Feb 22, 2022 4:04 pm | Comments (32)
GOP gubernatorial hopeful Bob Stefanowski Tuesday at WNHH FM.
The campaign gods have bestowed a gift upon Bob Stefanowski. Will he be able to run with it and become Connecticut’s next governor?
by | Feb 17, 2022 3:36 pm | Comments (1)
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DuBois-Walton with Harris Tucker School students at a Newhallville ward committee meeting.
“Equity” and “excellence” are about to get an update.
Those two words summarized the mission of a five-year plan to guide Connecticut’s schools. The State Board of Education drafted and began undertaking the plan five years ago.
Now the board is crafting a new five-year plan. It has a new chair to guide that process: New Haven’s Karen DuBois-Walton.
by | Feb 17, 2022 2:27 pm | Comments (4)
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Santiago with retired New Haven Board of Alders President and mayoral Chief of Staff Tomas Reyes at Wednesday night's fundraiser.
Latino educators and activists gathered to support a quest to make history — by electing Connecticut’s first Latino secretary of the state.
by | Feb 15, 2022 3:19 pm | Comments (2)
Matt Lesser has his eye on taking on an existential challenge — the “crisis of democracy.”
Continue reading ‘Sec'y Of State Hopeful: "It Can Happen Here"’
by | Feb 7, 2022 9:27 pm | Comments (26)
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Sonia Clubb and Supt. Iline Tracey hand out test kits and mask at King/Robinson to prepare to return to school amid Omicron wave.
New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) plan to stay masked up despite Gov. Ned Lamont’s decision to eliminate the statewide mask mandate.
by | Feb 4, 2022 2:10 pm | Comments (5)
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DuBois-Walton with Harris Tucker School students at a Newhallville ward committee meeting.
Add another civic leadership role to Karen DuBois-Walton’s calendar.
Continue reading ‘DuBois-Walton Named State Board Of Ed Chair’
by | Feb 4, 2022 10:30 am | Comments (3)
With the legislative session set to start next week, Connecticut towns and cities say it’s high time to help lower property taxes in a meaningful way.
by | Feb 2, 2022 12:36 pm | Comments (3)
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State Sen. Jorge Cabrera at WNHH FMM.
Even in 12 weeks, Connecticut can find a way to enable more people get mental-health help.
So proclaimed State Sen. Jorge Cabrera, who vowed to work with his colleagues to pass legislation to that effect during the “short session” that begins at the Capitol on Feb. 9.
by | Feb 1, 2022 1:11 pm | Comments (1)
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Cynthia Jennings at WNHH FM.
Cynthia Jennings has been involved in elections with three different parties — and has concluded the state needs someone from a fourth party to oversee the vote.
by | Jan 27, 2022 1:42 pm | Comments (0)
GOP Comptroller candidate Mary Fay at WNHH FM.
Mary Fay wants voters to make her Connecticut CFO, so she can keep an eye on how tax dollars get spent.
by | Jan 21, 2022 3:32 pm | Comments (27)
New Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner Friday at Union Station: Once-in-50-years chance to fulfill transit "dreams."
We’re not giving up on that one hour train ride to New York — but in the meantime, a 25-minute improvement has become increasingly realistic.
Continue reading ‘New Amtrak CEO Promises More, Faster Trains’
by | Jan 20, 2022 11:53 am | Comments (1)
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Secretary of the state candidate Stephanie Thomas at WNHH FM.
“Civic engagement” was more than an abstract concept for Stephanie Thomas when she was in high school. It provided her a warm place, with lights on, to do her homework.
Continue reading ‘Sec'y Of State Hopeful Aims To Rebuild Trust In Democracy’
by | Jan 19, 2022 9:09 am | Comments (7)
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Bob Stefanowski: Ready for a rematch.
With a focus on crime and inflation, Bob Stefanowski is making a second run for governor.
by | Jan 18, 2022 2:35 pm | Comments (7)
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Sean Scanlon, left, and G Cafe's Andrea Corazzini toast on Oct. 21 to a deal bringing an outpost of the bakery to Tweed.
The man who got new flights taking off from Tweed New Haven Airport is now “exploring” a new path for his own political career.
Airport Executive Director Sean Scanlon announced that exploration Tuesday: He has formed an “exploratory committee” to run this year for state comptroller.
by | Jan 14, 2022 4:28 pm | Comments (4)
The Covid-19 pandemic ravaged people’s mental health — but may also have opened a door to fix a longstanding mental health problem.
Continue reading ‘Looney's 2022 Priorities: Mental Health, Special Ed’
by | Jan 4, 2022 7:27 pm | Comments (4)
Maritza Bond at fall campaign fundraiser at Portofino's.
Three candidates have reported reaching a fundraising goal in the quest to break ahead of the pack of aspiring secretaries of the state.