Chatting jovially with eight other volunteers, Dwight neighborhood resident Pat Wallace preciously patted marigold seeds down in her tray and sprinkled soil over them with a wave of her hand.
The last question of Monday night’s Ward 1 aldermanic debate was a particularly contentious one.
For candidates in a contentious three-way race, the Ward 1 hopefuls did a lot of agreeing.
Chris Dodd vs. Tim Geithner: There’s a match-up that wasn’t anywhere to be seen on Barack Obama’s March Madness bracket last week. But, in truth, it may have been the only one that really mattered in his mind.
While the Ward 1 aldermanic candidates clamor for votes on Yale’s campus, the race for Ward 22 can afford to run at a more relaxed pace.
Ward 1 is not the only New Haven district to feature a Yale student as a candidate in the aldermanic race. Justin Elicker FES ’10 SOM ’10 said Tuesday that he will challenge Ward 10 Alderman Allan Brison for his seat, which represents many graduate students who live in the East Rock neighborhood.
Six months before the Nov. 3 New Haven municipal elections, only one individual has officially declared that he will challenge Mayor John DeStefano Jr.: Darnell Goldson, who confirmed Sunday night that he will enter the race as an Independent.
Various organizations are clamoring to contribute their opinions to the racially charged debate surrounding Ricci v. DeStefano, a case to be heard by the US Supreme Court next month.
Former State Rep. Bill Dyson will not run for the mayoral seat this fall, he told news outlets last Thursday.
Hayden Leventhal was given 90 minutes’ notice before he was laid off from his job as a bookkeeper for the city’s Board of Education. His manager handed him a pink slip and directed him to a City Hall briefing on how the city would provide benefits and assistance for workers to find new jobs.
Retirement is supposed to be easy, but it will soon be more difficult for New Haven’s senior citizens to find a game of Penochle.
