President Donald Trump sought to recognize New Haven Mayor Toni Harp Wednesday — then criticized her when it turned out she wasn’t in the room to receive the compliment. Harp was boycotting the meeting over the issue of sanctuary cities.
Paul Bass | New Haven Independent
Posted inEducation, Money
Gateway president: We’ll do more with less
The new chief of New Haven’s Gateway Community College has found that two campuses together can help more people launch machinist, railroad or ultrasound careers — even when a budget-strapped state is cutting back funding.
Posted inPolitics
Fellow Democrat takes on Rosa DeLauro
After 27 years as New Haven’s most formidable elected officeholder, Rosa DeLauro is facing her first challenge from an experienced pol within her own party, Milford Alderman Bryan Anderson — who seeks to outflank her on the left on health care.
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Luisa DeLauro, pioneer pol, dies At 103
She was both a pioneer in the emergence of women as a force in local politics and a reminder of the Democratic Party’s survival-minded working-class past.
Posted inHousing
New Haven candidates clash on housing, immigration
Gentrification and immigration were two hot subjects over the weekend when Democratic mayoral candidates Marcus Paca and incumbent Mayor Toni Harp met in a pre-election “forum.”
Posted inJustice
Vigil supports immigrant who took refuge in New Haven church
More than 200 people staged a vigil Sunday to support Nury Chavarria, 43, a single mother of four American citizens facing deportation for entering the country illegally. A resident of Connecticut for 24 years, she has taken up residence inside Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal Church and plans to stay there until U.S. immigration authorities reconsider her case.
Posted inMoney
A ‘hard freeze’ in New Haven
NEW HAVEN — In the wake of a last-minute $1.9 million cut in state aid, Mayor Toni Harp has announced a “hard freeze” on city spending through the last six weeks of the fiscal year.
Posted inMoney, Transportation
New Haven, state DOT wrangle over Union Station control
Connecticut wants New Haven to run Union Station for three to five more years — then maybe have someone else run it. Mayor Toni Harp’s administration argues that it has earned the right to run the place indefinitely.
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Crackdown means deportation for New Haven immigrant
Wilmer Galo-Andino, a 46-year-old supermarket worker who has lived in New Haven for 12 years, is the first publicly known, local undocumented immigrant affected by a policy change ordered by President Donald Trump.
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Yale law students help halt deportations
A Yale Law School team helped convince a judge Saturday to temporarily stop the government from deporting foreigners detained at U.S. airports based on an executive order by President Donald Trump. But the order has quashed about a dozen refugee families’ plans to resettle in New Haven in coming weeks.
Posted inJustice, Politics
Lembo to critics: ‘Your crazy’s showing’
Activists from across the country are inundating Kevin Lembo with taunts like “faggot” and “Satan” — but that’s not stopping him from moving to prevent state government from forwarding charitable donations to an anti-gay lobbying group.
Posted inPolitics
Harp: We’ll ‘fight’ back on immigration
Mayor Toni Harp has instructed the city’s top lawyer to prepare a legal challenge in case the incoming Trump administration seeks to punish New Haven for being a “sanctuary city.”
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Long line early at New Haven polling place
After two hours and 20 minutes waiting in line outside New Haven’s Hall of Records Tuesday morning, Myles Alderman finally got a chance to say his name and then cast a vote for the next president of the United States.
Posted inEducation, Money
Yale fights back; Lemar rips ‘scare tactics’
Yale has enlisted its community to lobby legislators to kill a bill that scrutinizes a portion of the university’s tax exemptions, leading a New Haven legislator to accuse the school of waging a misleading campaign based on “inaccurate” and “unsubstantiated scare tactics.”
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John Daniels, New Haven’s first black mayor, passes
John C. Daniels, who served as New Haven’s first black mayor and brought community policing to the city, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 78.