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Cody Uman, in Ward 21: Voting yes on 4-year terms.
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Outside the Conte West Hills polling place on Chapel St.
(Updated and corrected) Cody Uman, an undergraduate math major at Yale, was running late to class Tuesday after setting aside an extra hour to research the proposed changes to the city’s charter and bike over to King-Robinson School to cast his vote in Ward 21, which covers parts of Newhallville, Dixwell and Prospect Hill.
He said he was voting “yes” on the ballot measure in favor of four-year terms for all elected officials and increased salaries for the city’s alders to make sure they’re better “compensated for their time.”
Mayor Elicker (right) and one side of the contested flyer.
New Haven’s public financing program board members delayed acting on a complaint filed against the mayor’s reelection campaign until after the election, leaving up in the air just how directly taxpayer-funded local candidates can urge voters to support ballot measures like this year’s charter revision.
One side of contested campaign flyer. Candidate info or "call to action"?
Did Mayor Justin Elicker’s reelection campaign break local public-financing rules by sending out mail urging voters to support Tuesday’s charter-revision ballot measure — when the Democracy Fund prohibits candidates from expenditures focused on supporting or opposing ballot measures?
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Nov 6, 2023 9:57 am
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Write-in alder candidates (clockwise from top left) Josh Glaab of Ward 10, Fred Christmas of Ward 21, Ira Johnson of Ward 11, Dennis Serfilippi of Ward 25, and Susan Campion of Ward 18.
A high school science teacher in East Rock, a community organizer in Dixwell, a budget watchdog in Westville, and a Tweed critic in Morris Cove are some of the five alder hopefuls this year seeking to convince voters to put pen to ballot to support their write-in candidacies for local legislative office.
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Nov 5, 2023 11:06 am
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John DeStefano.
Former Mayor DeStefano counts up all the elections he ran in and all the alders he served with over 20 years — and tells readers why he’s voting “yes” on charter reform, including four-year terms for mayor and alders.
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Nora Grace-Flood and Thomas Breen |
Nov 3, 2023 5:20 pm
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Anthony Acri (right) with Steve Orosco at New Haven Republicans' 2021 campaign HQ: Time in prison "changed my perspective on what life is really about."
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City Clerk Mike Smart: "I like the people. I like dealing with the land records. I love dealing with alders."
A city/town clerk rematch is set to take place on Tuesday — as a veteran Democratic incumbent faces off against a Republican candidate hoping to represent his New Haven home following a recent stint in federal prison for his role in a West Texas wire fraud conspiracy.
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Nov 3, 2023 4:37 pm
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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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Nora Grace-Flood and Dereen Shirnekhi |
Oct 24, 2023 9:19 am
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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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Oct 23, 2023 5:00 pm
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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.
