Yale students alarmed by recent shootings in surrounding neighborhoods may soon be asked to join other community members in being more proactive about ensuring their own safety.
But before the polls closed Tuesday night, most New Haven residents interviewed said they knew the extra campaigning was not necessary — not because Calder’s and Morehead’s victories were clear, but because no one bothered to vote.
A well-done omelette with a hint of extra spice. A Ward 2 aldermanic candidate. For Douglass, a Trumbull dining hall cook for the past 13 years and an active local union member for nearly two decades, they might as well be one and the same: unpolished, perhaps, on the outside, but solid as a rock inside.
Were it not for one thing, Gina Calder ’03 EPH ’08 would likely breeze through next week’s Democratic primary and become Ward 2 alderwoman.
The stage wasn’t quite as packed with candidates as the recent 2008 presidential debates, but the decision by all five Ward 22 and Ward 2 aldermanic candidates to set aside their differences and sit side-by-side for a forum Tuesday night at the Afro-American Cultural Center was a first in Yale-New Haven political history.
