Laughter: “My love for New Haven has made me bolder.”
Norah Laughter, a rising senior and American Studies major at Yale and current Ward 1 Democratic Town Committee co-chair, announced Wednesday evening that she will run for Ward 1 alder – becoming the fourth Yale undergraduate to enter the race so far.
Dem DeLauro-Challenger DeNoble: Time for generational change.
Eighteen-term incumbent New Haven U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro is the latest prominent Democrat to face a prospective primary challenge from a first-time candidate promising generational change.
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Gov. Lamont at Monday presser.
HARTFORD — “Budgets make a difference, and I think this budget the Republicans passed — the Trump budget — was reckless, cynical, and mean-spirited,” Gov. Ned Lamont said Monday at a press conference decrying the tax-and-spending-cuts bill known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Along with a number of other state leaders and Connecticut federal legislators, the governor emphasized the negative impacts of funding cuts to Medicaid, food stamps, and other social services during the presser, held just three days after President Donald Trump signed the act into law.
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Zelema Harris outside her Townsend home.
“I love math,” Zelema Harris divulged with a smile. “I love dealing with budgets.”
A pension analyst by day and an accountant on the side, Harris hopes to bring her passion for crunching numbers to the Board of Alders — along with a vision of children across the city educated in civics, engaged in afterschool activities, and prepared for an artificially intelligent future.
DeLauro: "This bill will make peoples’ daily lives more expensive for years to come."
“Republicans just raised the cost of living for working Americans.”
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro issued that warning and lament at the top of a press release sent out Thursday afternoon in response to Congressional Republicans’ passage of a Medicaid-slashing budget-reconciliation bill championed by President Donald Trump.
Outside the Family Dollar on Whalley, where '"Mister Black" was selling essential oils Monday afternoon.
Mr. Black took a break from selling banana and lavender essential oils on the sidewalk outside Family Dollar to offer a plaintive municipal election year assessment: “The people are crying out.”
An interview with the mayor on Monday: “This is about us crushing someone that promotes that kind of ideology."
An unnamed “MAGA opponent” has popped up in three of Mayor Justin Elicker’s reelection campaign fundraising emails over the past week — including in an email with the subject line, “is New Haven going MAGA?”
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Elias Theodore: “I think there are more Yale students who would enjoy being involved in New Haven than there are at the moment"
A third Yale student — and second native New Havener — has jumped into the race to fill an open downtown alder seat in the hopes of bridging the town-gown divide.
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Mildred Melendez: Running to be Ward 13's "liaison."
When Mildred Melendez was a teenager, she would bike around Fair Haven Heights — just across the river from where she lived in Fair Haven — and would think to herself: I want to live here one day.
Now, having lived in the Heights for the past 13 years, Melendez is working to realize her next dream: representing the neighborhood on the Board of Alders.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration’s elimination of birthright citizenship — handing the country what Connecticut Attorney General William Tong described as “an unworkable mess that will leave thousands of babies in an untenable legal limbo.”
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Top Dem DeLauro: This is "astonishing." Top Republican Cole: This is responsible.
WASHINGTON— As U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro repeatedly called out President Donald Trump for refusing to spend the money appropriated by Congress, she had a powerful ally when she accused the White House of “stealing” taxpayer dollars.
The House Republican response: Gut the GAO, whose mission is to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in federal agencies; recommend improvements to government operations; and respond to hundreds of congressional inquiries about federal spending and programs every year.
On Thursday, the House Appropriations Committee, where DeLauro sits as the top Democrat, voted along party lines to slash the GAO’s budget by almost 50 percent, to $415 million from $812 million. The cut was included in legislation to fund the Legislative Branch for the 12 months beginning Oct. 1, which also passed along party lines.
New York State Sen. Patricia Fahy: If they’re violating civil liberties, they shouldn’t get a break from taxpayers.
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At an Avelo protest at Tweed in April.
In a growing effort to hold airlines like Avelo accountable for their role in controversial deportation flights, New York State Sen. Patricia Fahy is spearheading legislation that would revoke millions of dollars in jet fuel tax exemptions from carriers found to be violating civil liberties.
Fahy unveiled details of the proposal during a virtual press conference Wednesday, hosted by a national group called Coalition to Stop Avelo.
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Lamont (right): Mamdani "surprised the hell out of the establishment down there."
Two days after an unplanned endorsement of Andrew Cuomo for mayor of New York City, Gov. Ned Lamont shared some words of advice for Zohran Mamdani, winner of Tuesday’s New York City Democratic primary: “Get some experienced people around you.”
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Three alder-hopefuls apiece are now running to represent Downtown/Yale’s Ward 1 and Morris Cove’s Ward 18, as more candidates have signed up to participate in this year’s municipal elections.
Rosa DeLauro: Now is the time to "stand up and speak up."
Ashley Bailey doesn’t remember living at 470 Howard Ave., where her father and grandfather raised her briefly as a baby.
But her 13-year-old daughter will remember painting her bedroom walls teal inside that same house — now that Bailey is on track to purchase it as a first-time homeowner, with the help of state and federal programs that are in jeopardy under President Donald Trump.
Blumenthal, DeLauro, Murphy: Seeking answers on bombing.
New Haven’s Washington representatives promptly condemned the Trump administration decision to enter a Mideast war by bombing three Iranian nuclear facilities.
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DeLauro, in New Haven on Monday: “What they are doing is illegal.”
WASHINGTON— As the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro has an outsized role in determining what programs the federal government spends its money on.
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Protesters downtown Saturday ...
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... as part of a nationwide day of "No Kings" rallies.
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Thousands of demonstrators converged on the Green Saturday as part of a nationwide day of protests against the Trump administration’s increasingly authoritarian actions.
New Haven’s “No Kings” rally joined roughly 2,000 similar actions across the country — and saw critics speak out against a crackdown on free speech, the deportation of migrants, and a widespread infringement of civil rights.
New billboards, coming soon to highway near Tweed.
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The former billboard that Avelo criticized as copyright infringement.
New Hampshire lawmaker Seth Miller: New billboards should be "back up within a few days."
Avelo-boycott billboards will soon go back up on the highway near Tweed New Haven Airport — as a New Hampshire state lawmaker has redesigned his protest message in response to the budget airline’s claims of copyright infringement.
All the while, that same state lawmaker is waging a legal battle in federal court in Nevada over his right to criticize the company’s deportation flights for the Trump administration.
U-ACT protesters, including Mark Colville (second from left): "Where, then, shall we go?!"
Alders Caroline Tanbee Smith, Sarah Miller, and Kiana Flores advocated for additional school funding, but did not succeed.
Three alders tried in vain to direct an additional $1.425 million to the Board of Education — on top of the $5 million schools bump already proposed by the mayor — during a Board of Alders meeting that saw local legislators overwhelmingly approve a new $703.7 million general fund budget.
Fair Haven Alder Jose Crespo: resume editor, healthcare management scholar, and "a firm believer in the Lord."
When Jose Crespo was 15 years old, he applied to his first job through the city’s Youth @ Work program with a note under the “hobbies” section of his resume that he aspired to be a “mayor, governor, president, lawyer — anything with service.”
Now, at 35, Crespo’s work experience includes ten years of such service as the alder of Fair Haven’s Ward 16, alongside a freelance gig as a resume editor.
He’s currently working on a different kind of job application: a campaign for a sixth two-year term as alder, to be reviewed and decided upon by his constituents.
