Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Citizen input sought today in Milford to help frame Register election coverage

Public forum slated at 6 p.m. at the Margaret Egan Center, 35 Matthew St., Milford.

By Angela Carter
Community Engagement Editor
In December, the New Haven Register introduced a voter-focused election project we refer to as “Citizens Agenda.”
The Register, along with its sister papers in other parts of Connecticut, the Middletown Press, Register Citizen in Torrington and Litchfield County Times, has been polling readers about the issues that matter most to you, so we can have candidates in Senate and congressional races address them during the 2012 election cycle.
On Friday, my colleague Ed Stannard — also a community engagement editor for the Register — and I went to The Grove and attended a meeting of the New Haven Votes Coalition, a diverse group working on voter education, registration and overall voter participation in the nation’s democratic electoral process.

Read the full story here.

No comments:

Valley Community Foundation Awards $170,000 in Scholarships

    Valley Community Foundation Awards $170,000 from Scholarship Funds to Support Educational Pursuits of Local Students   DERBY, CT (Octobe...