Author Archives: Sarah Mishkin

Repeating a cry for less talk and more action, Ward 3 Alderwoman Jackie James sketched out a comprehensive agenda for alleviating New Haven’s economic inequality and improving the quality of life within the city’s neighborhoods in Monday evening’s Black and Hispanic Caucus State of the City address. The address also marked the caucus’ rebirth this »

Zach Zwillinger ’07 runs a homeless community center out of a local church basement. Eric Kafka ’08 lobbies the state legislature to help low-income working families. And Kevin Bock ’08 interns with a campaign for U.S. Senate, while hundreds of other students tutor local public school students. Yale’s location in the middle of a vibrant »

New Haven could become the second U.S. city to divest from companies that support the Sudanese government, pending the results of an investigation into the holdings of municipal pension funds, city officials and aldermen said Tuesday. City Controller Mark Pietrosimone said New Haven’s investment managers are currently scouring the city’s two pension funds to determine »

Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy raised more money this term than his competitor for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., according to campaign finance reports filed by each campaign on Monday. The DeStefano campaign raised $415,000 in the first quarter of 2006 for a total of $3,278,000 raised by his campaign. Malloy »

Stamford has the state’s second-largest Republican party. New Haven has not elected a Republican mayor since Truman was in the White House. As the two cities’ elected leaders, Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., face off for the Democratic Party’s gubernatorial nomination, the two candidates’ track records in their hometowns »

Air Force One touched down on the runway of Tweed-New Haven Airport Wednesday morning, marking yet another twist in the ongoing debate about Connecticut health insurance — specifically, the debate about how to help the state’s 350,000 uninsured residents. President George W. Bush ’68 arrived in the town of his birth on his way to »

The headquarters of Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s gubernatorial campaign is beginning to resemble City Hall, with the announcement Monday that another former City Hall staffer will be joining the campaign. Henry Fernandez LAW ’94 will become the mayor’s campaign manager, after his resignation in March from his position as New Haven’s economic development administrator, a »

New Haven’s fiscal situation might look slightly less grim next year if the state legislature passes the two new bills proposed by Democrats in Hartford. The Democrat-controlled Appropriations Committee approved last Thursday a $16.2 billion budget proposal that would increase the amount of money spent on municipalities. But Gov. M. Jodi Rell said in a »

The tug of war between keeping down property taxes while maintaining city services was played out last night at a public hearing on the 2006-07 city budget, which proposes a record high increase in New Haven’s property tax rate. A handful of New Haven residents who testified against Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s proposed 9 percent »

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. The group of delegates New Haven’s Democratic Party selected at its meeting last night to vote on the party’s endorsement in the gubernatorial primary race are unanimously in support of Mayor John DeStefano Jr.’s bid for governor. The delegates will also vote on »

Construction is expected to begin on the Yale-New Haven Hospital Cancer Center by September, according to an agreement announced Wednesday by Mayor John DeStefano Jr., hospital administrators and union leaders that brings an end to nearly a year of bitter negotiations. The compromise calls for Yale-New Haven to commit to a community benefits agreement, under »

Mayor John DeStefano Jr. formally announced his candidacy for Connecticut governor Monday, marking the beginning of an effort to reach out to the general public and build momentum for his effort to defeat incumbent Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell, whose approval ratings have consistently ranked among the highest in the nation. Although DeStefano has been »