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Magda Natal files to run for alder of Ward 16.
A Wilbur Cross teacher of English as a second language is running to represent Fair Haven’s Ward 16 on the Board of Alders, joining what has become a three-way race.
by | May 15, 2025 4:04 pm | Comments (31)
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Voicing the resistance: Murphy on an April stop at Fair Haven Community Health Care.
Bros approve: Murphy takes down DHS's Kristen Noem.
WASHINGTON — Here’s U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy on this week’s announcement of Qatar offering to send President Donald Trump a new luxury Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One: “This is outrageous. We’ve never seen anything like this before in American history — a foreign government gifting a $400 million luxury plane to the president.”
And Murphy at an April rally opposing Trump’s efforts to cut social programs: “Democracy is fragile, it is under assault today, but it is still alive in America, right? The people of this country still have the power.”
And Murphy in March voting against Republican legislation to keep the federal government open through Sept. 30: “Trump has a plan — and he’s implementing it — to destroy our economy and our government, to create a crisis that allows him to hand our government over to his billionaire friends and to suspend our democracy.”
As President Donald Trump speeds past the guardrails that have restrained previous chief executives, the Connecticut Democratic Senator is holding up a giant stop sign.
by | May 14, 2025 8:19 pm | Comments (12)
HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. and Rep. DeLauro, at Wednesday's House Appropriations Committee hearing.
WASHINGTON — Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, accused Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday of “jeopardizing the health, safety, and well-being of millions of American families” by “a dangerous dismantling” of his agency.
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Ward 1 alder hopefuls Jake Siesel and Rhea McTiernan Huge.
Two Yale students are running for the role of downtown alder with hopes of boosting civic engagement in a ward with low local voter turnout and where the incumbent is not seeking reelection.
One candidate is a lifelong New Havener; the other is an “outsider” inspired by his frustration with the Civilian Review Board.
by | May 12, 2025 1:01 pm | Comments (6)
Appropriations Committee Ranking Member DeLauro and Chair Cole.
WASHINGTON — Even in an age of partisanship, the House Appropriations Committee was the one panel where Republicans and Democrats still worked together, coming to compromise and cooperation as they divvied up a large chunk of the federal budget.
Continue reading ‘Committee Dynamics Warp In Trump's Shadow’
by | May 5, 2025 11:55 am | Comments (5)
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Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith (center) with ward co-chairs Claudia Herrera and Sarah Fritchey.
Alder Caroline Tanbee Smith is now officially seeking another two years representing her East Rock/Fair Haven ward.
by | Apr 30, 2025 3:33 pm | Comments (22)
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Elicker: "Now is the time for us to put the feet on the gas of resistance."
The Trump administration has potentially suspended $27 million in federal grants related to climate, health, and environmental resiliency that had been slated for New Haven.
Mayor Justin Elicker revealed that number as he criticized the president for presiding over “100 days of American decline.”
Continue reading ‘Mayor: 100 Days In, City At Center Of Trump "Resistance"’
by | Apr 25, 2025 12:49 pm | Comments (13)
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Mayor Elicker, fundraising off of fed court injunction: "This victory is a sign that our efforts are working."
A federal judge in California ruled that the Trump administration can’t withhold funds from New Haven, San Francisco, and a dozen other cities just because they are “sanctuary jurisdictions” that limit local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.
Continue reading ‘Court Sides With New Haven, Against Trump’
by | Apr 23, 2025 2:58 pm | Comments (2)
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U.S. Sen. Paul at Tuesday's YPU debate.
Kentucky Republican U.S. Sen. Rand Paul broke with Republican President Donald Trump during a Tuesday night speech at Yale — where he criticized the president’s tariffs for their “potential of destroying the American economy.”
Continue reading ‘U.S. Sen. Rand Paul: Tariffs Hurt America’
by | Apr 22, 2025 9:31 am | Comments (9)
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Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers: "It's time to stand on the core values that have always powered our city's fight for justice."
President Donald Trump poses an urgent threat to basic rights. So does the poverty that has flourished since long before Trump took office.
New Haven must be ready to fight both.
Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers conveyed that message by way of the alders’ annual Black and Hispanic Caucus State of the City address on Monday night.
Continue reading ‘Walker-Myers: The Fight Against Racism Is Bigger Than Trump’
by | Apr 17, 2025 10:15 pm | Comments (29)
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At Thursday's protest at Tweed ...
... Alder Smith (center) addresses the crowd, alongside Alders Miller and Cupo ...
For the second Thursday in a row, demonstrators gathered by Tweed New Haven Airport to protest Avelo’s contract to carry out deportation flights for the Trump administration.
The crowd was three times bigger than last week’s — and saw local, state, and federal politicians turn out to show their support.
by | Apr 14, 2025 2:08 pm | Comments (24)
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Murphy: "Trying to do my small part to help build a national opposition movement against what's happening."
“The old tools are still the new tools,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy told a room of Fair Haven healthcare providers and advocates worried about potential Republican-led cuts to Medicaid.
“As much as politics has changed, it is still turnout and protest and volume that makes a difference.”
Continue reading ‘Murphy On Trump II Resistance: "We Have To Be Vocal"’
by | Apr 11, 2025 2:39 pm | Comments (47)
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Alders (except for Sal DeCola, second from left) to Avelo: Cut it out!
Avelo boycott, at the top of the Change.org "popular" list.
Twenty eight of 30 alders signed a letter calling on Avelo Airlines to immediately end any contracts it has to run deportation flights for the Trump administration — while the number of signatures on an online boycott campaign surged past 28,600.
Continue reading ‘Alders Denounce Avelo; Online Petition Flies’
by | Apr 10, 2025 4:32 pm | Comments (15)
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Prof. Jason Stanley and Unitarian Society of New Haven's Rev. Stephen Kendrick
Keep demonstrating and boycotting. Keep doing your job without caving in — such as teaching Black history if you’re a teacher, doing the right thing if you’re a lawyer. And vote, of course, even though that may make no difference, as Trump wants to be president for life.
You may not prevail in any of this, but History is watching, and your grandchildren will ask.
Those were among the sobering take-aways Wednesday night from an hour of remarks and Q and A by Yale Prof. Jason Stanley that drew 200 people to the sun-filled sanctuary of the Unitarian Society of New Haven out on the Hartford Turnpike just over the Hamden border.
Continue reading ‘Departing Prof To "Centrist Liberals:" Wake Up!’
by | Apr 10, 2025 3:47 pm | Comments (18)
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Democratic incumbent Elicker, Republican challenger Orosco.
Mayor Justin Elicker’s reelection campaign raised more than $109,000 from more than 560 different people during the first three months of the year.
His Republican challenger, who began his run roughly two weeks ago, does not appear to have begun raising money.
Continue reading ‘Q1 Fundraising: Elicker $109K, Orosco TBD’
by | Apr 9, 2025 8:28 pm | Comments (8)
DeLauro, with Senate chief sponsor Michael Bennet: "We need the Child Tax Credit now."
WASHINGTON — As part of their coronavirus stimulus package, President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats increased tax credits for working families with and without children.
Continue reading ‘DeLauro, Dems Try Again To Expand Child Tax Credit’
by | Apr 9, 2025 5:51 pm | Comments (29)
Sen. Prez Looney: Avelo's actions just the latest example of "caving to government dollars at the expense of human rights."
(Updated) Outrage continued mounting from both the grassroots and elected officials Wednesday against Avelo Airlines’ decision to run deportation flights, as more than 14,000 people (at last check) signed onto a boycott petition.
by | Apr 8, 2025 4:40 pm | Comments (23)
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AG Tong, at Tweed in 2019: "Deeply disappointed" in Avelo.
State Attorney General William Tong has some questions for Avelo Airlines.
Eight questions, to be precise, all in regards to why the budget airline has decided to “profit from and facilitate these atrocities” by running deportation flights for the Trump administration.
Continue reading ‘Tong Slams Avelo Over Deportation Contract’
by | Apr 6, 2025 11:08 am | Comments (19)
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by | Apr 5, 2025 5:41 pm | Comments (42)
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Fair Havener Ana Paola Juarez: "Everyone is so on edge in my neighborhood."
Scenes from Saturday's rally on the Green ...
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... where protesters said to Trump and Musk: "Hands off!"
“Let’s talk about hands off,” New Haven Federation of Teachers President Leslie Blatteau said to roughly 2,000 fellow protesters on the Green on Saturday. “First, hands off our curriculum.”
Shelly Altman, from Jewish Voice for Peace, continued, “Hands off the mouths of students who cry out for an end to the genocide in Gaza.”
Gretchen Raffa, from Planned Parenthood, zoomed out further, “Hands off our bodies.”
Climate activist Sena Wazer added, “It is not only about saying ‘hands off’ to the federal administration. It is also about saying ‘step up’ to the last of our elected officials.”
by | Apr 3, 2025 4:21 pm | Comments (14)
Professor Shore: "People on the Titanic said, 'Our ship can't sink.'"
Marci Shore decided she didn’t want her teen-aged kids living in a “reign of terror.”
So she and her husband Tim Snyder decided to stay put in Toronto rather than return home to New Haven.
by | Apr 2, 2025 9:23 pm | Comments (16)
One of DeLauro's latest Bluesky videos.
WASHINGTON — Rarely does a day go by without Rep. Rosa DeLauro calling out the Trump administration.
Continue reading ‘With Dems Out Of Power, DeLauro Takes To Bully Pulpit’
by | Mar 26, 2025 6:23 pm | Comments (12)
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Journalists who don't have seats jam into the aisle in the White House briefing room Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — For decades, a reporter for The Associated Press would have first dibs to question the White House press secretary during the daily news briefing.
Continue reading ‘A View Inside Trump's White House Briefing Room’
by | Mar 25, 2025 3:00 pm | Comments (41)
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Steve Orosco, at right, filing campaign papers with City Clerk Michael Smart.
An east side Republican jumped into New Haven’s mayoral race Tuesday with a mission to bring Donald Trump’s political momentum to the city’s low-income neighborhoods.
by | Mar 24, 2025 9:36 am | Comments (7)
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At a recent Veterans Day ceremony on Long Wharf.
(Opinion) I am a U.S. Army veteran, and I am anxious.
Like many others, I signed up to serve a country that promised to care for its veterans. Now, we are watching the Trump administration systematically dismantle the VA, stripping away the very services that keep us alive.