Osmanu Seeks Primary, With Porter’s Nod
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| May 20, 2024 1:43 pm |A next-generation primary contest is shaping up as a second candidate has emerged seeking the Democratic nomination for a New Haven-Hamden legislative district.
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| May 20, 2024 1:43 pm |A next-generation primary contest is shaping up as a second candidate has emerged seeking the Democratic nomination for a New Haven-Hamden legislative district.
It appears something momentous will happen this year in New Haven: Voters will elect a new state legislator, for the first time in eight years.
That’s because incumbent State Rep. Robyn Porter did not show up to a convention Wednesday night to receive the Democratic Party’s endorsement to run for a sixth two-year term representing the 94th General Assembly District.
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The economy’s roaring, according to official measures like the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
The economy’s ailing, and we’re all hurting, according to the human beings who live in it.
Maybe it’s time for a new way to measure the economy?
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| May 8, 2024 8:06 am |Hill Regional Career High School junior Josh Burgess wrote the words “causes and effects of Salvadoran Civil War 1980s” inside a circle, and then drew lines connecting the words “historic inequality,” “murder,” and “oligarchs” to that circle.
He did so as part of an African American and Latino studies course that encourages students to understand how different parts of world history relate to one another — and that builds off of recent state legislation designed to boost the diversity of topics covered in Connecticut social studies classrooms.
Eight New Haven-area Democrats have won the chance to help officially select their party’s presidential nominee this summer at what’s shaping up to be an uncontested — but plenty contentious — Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
More voters in East Rock’s Ward 9 cast their ballots for “Uncommitted” than for incumbent President Joe Biden in Tuesday’s low-turnout Democratic presidential primary.
Still, Biden handily won the virtually uncontested contest, both in New Haven and across Connecticut — even as a protest option that has become a rallying cry for pro-Palestinian activists notched more than 21 percent of city Democrats’ votes.
Continue reading ‘Protest Line Wins 21% Of City’s Dem Primary Vote; Official Results Released’
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| Apr 2, 2024 4:18 pm |Rafael Irizarry could afford to spend all day relaxing or hitting the links. Instead he’s running to become the first Latino to represent Greater New Haven in the U.S. Congress.
(Updated) “Biden all the way,” said Cyn Chegwidden as she crossed the quiet mid-morning parking lot of Nathan Hale School on her way to the Ward 18 polling station to vote in Tuesday’s presidential primary. “I’m terribly worried, and I hope people are realizing how important this election is.”
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| Mar 27, 2024 6:39 pm |Former U.S. Sen. and vice-presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, a leading New Haven and Connecticut politician of the past half century whose independent streak reflected an American shift away from loyalty to established party institutions, is dead at 82.
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and | Mar 26, 2024 12:10 pm |(Updated) Seventy-eight New Haveners began to get used to a new way of voting Tuesday.
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| Mar 22, 2024 3:58 pm |New Haveners can start casting early ballots in person (but not for very long) next week for the first time — even if this particular vote might not have much at stake.
The election is a Democratic and a Republican presidential primary. Officially the primary takes place April 2. But Connecticut is embarking on a newly approved plan to allow some days of early voting, which begins next Tuesday.
Michael Massey found Donald Trump in prison. Now he’s living straight — and running for Congress with a mission to boost the role of fellow ”Urban Black” Republicans in their party.
New Haven Democrats voted unanimously Tuesday evening to have Vincent Mauro Jr. continue serving as town chair into a second decade.
A handful of high-up local officials can apply to live outside of New Haven, as long as they can demonstrate a “critical need” or “extraordinary hardship” associated with living within city bounds after serving in their roles for at least a year.
Continue reading ‘Alders Pass Law That Allows CAO To Live Out Of Town’
(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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| Mar 5, 2024 2:14 pm |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.
Continue reading ‘Barber's Loneliness RX: Start With 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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“As a Palestinian, I learned early what it means to fear for the safety of my family on a daily basis,” said local law student Alaa Hajyahia.
A hundred protesters who had gathered outside City Hall in support of a ceasefire in the Gaza war fell silent as she spoke.
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| Feb 28, 2024 12:14 pm |How will local bids for geothermal and political power translate into a more empowered Newhallville community?
That question arose repeatedly at the latest gathering of the Newhallville Community Management Team.
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| Feb 27, 2024 11:17 am |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.
(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.
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.
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| Feb 7, 2024 10:50 am |Should a misstated birthday or a missing address disqualify candidates from running for office?
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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.
Continue reading ‘State Of The City Meets State Of The World’
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.”
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‘Elicker: Ceasefire Resolution
"Simplifies A Complex Issue"’