By Tom Goldenberg, Democratic Candidate for Mayor of New Haven Since 2013, Justin Elicker has branded himself as the “clean” candidate. He argued for more transparency in government, has supposedly sworn off big donors, and has attacked challengers on what he has seen as going back to “backroom deal” politics. Read more…
Originally in the New Haven Independent We should all be proud of efforts like New Haven Rising’s demand for Yale to hire more New Haven residents. We should also be proud of NAACP’s #WeGotThatWork campaign to ensure that returning citizens have access to jobs. The aspiration of these initiatives – of Read more…
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/opinion_shootings The following opinion essay was submitted by Democratic mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg. With today’s double homicide on Winthrop Avenue, New Haven again has families and friends that have lost loved ones and are in pain. This is deeply concerning, especially after the recent string of violent events the city has seen, including Read more…
From the New Haven Register – Opinion: We need to take accountability for our New Haven schools’ failure Much has been made recently about the structure of the New Haven Public Schools Board of Education. Should there only be two elected members? How about four elected members? Why not have an Read more…
https://www.nhregister.com/opinion/article/opinion-why-new-haven-needs-to-rethink-its-17823196.php It is not news that Connecticut faces an opioid epidemic. In 2021 alone, the state had more than 1,500 overdose deaths, more than 90 percent linked to opioids. This makes it more likely to die from opioids than a car accident. Our state’s rate of overdose is more than Read more…
Part 1 By Tom Goldenberg, Democratic candidate for Mayor of New Haven This is part of a series where Democratic Mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg highlights his first-hand experiences with New Haven’s methadone clinics and explores what a new model could look like. The question came from a friend of mine Read more…
Our state needs to reconcile with the uncoordinated and poorly planned response to the opioid crisis. This is most evident in New Haven, where we have a major methadone clinic with documented incidents of nearby drug dealing and violence 330 feet from an elementary and middle school. Kids walking to Read more…
A Democratic mayoral candidate traveled to Congress Avenue to call for the immediate closure and relocation of a controversial methadone clinic. One of the clinic’s patients posed the candidate a question: What about the many lives that have been saved from the depths of heroin addiction by the APT Foundation’s treatments? One saved life, he Read more…
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/goldenberg_comedy What does a mayor even do? That question was posed during a two-hour comedy-fueled fundraiser for mayoral candidate Tom Goldenberg — with no punchline, or answer, delivered. Goldenberg is the meditator-turned-bartender-turned-McKinsey consultant looking to unseat two-term incumbent Mayor Justin Elicker in this year’s Democratic primary. Fellow Democratic challengers Shafiq Abdussabur and Liam Brennan are also running for the city’s top office, Read more…
https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/goldenberg-new-haven-s-congress-ave-methadone-17825276.php.html NEW HAVEN — The APT Foundation’s Congress Avenue methadone clinic, across the street from a city school, is “in an inappropriate place” and should be shut down immediately, according to Democratic mayoral challenger Tom Goldenberg. “This is an inappropriate place — right next to a school in a residential Read more…