Shawn Wooden

City Poised To Enter Agreement To Sell Morgan Street Garage To State

2013-06-06 14:41:59

City officials are expected to sign a deal in the next few weeks to sell the Morgan Street parking garage to the state. At the same time, the city will enter into a long-term lease with the state for the land beneath the garage and rights to future...

Malloy Calls Felon's Candidacy 'Local Issue,' Favors 'Second Chances'

2012-05-22 14:30:00

HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloydeclined Tuesday to take a position on Bridgeport Democrats' endorsement of a felon, former state Sen.Ernest E. Newton II, as a candidate for a state Senate seat – the same office that Newton was convicted in...

Hartford Board Of Education Nominees Should Be Confirmed By Separate Vote, Council President Says

2012-01-31 14:42:41

Charity poker tourney raises $34,000 for Women in Distress, Children's Fund

2012-01-10 10:03:00

New Yorker Frank Giordano won the big prize at the Isle Casino and Racing Sunday night, joining Women In Distress and the Sun-Sentinel Children's Fund as happy participants in the inaugural All In For Charity Poker Tournament. Giordano outlasted about 90...

Hartford City Council Questions Mayor's School Board Appointees

2012-01-27 09:04:00

Councilman Kenneth Kennedy cut to the chase Thursday night. During a city hall confirmation hearing that council President Shawn Wooden called "unprecedented," Kennedy asked why Mayor Pedro Segarra wants to be on the school board. Along with himself,...

Segarra Sworn In To First Full Term As Mayor

2012-01-03 19:36:00

HARTFORD — Calling it "the start of a four-year odyssey," Pedro E. Segarra was sworn in Tuesday to his first full mayoral term. Segarra, the former city council president who took over as mayor in 2010 — succeeding Eddie Perez, who was...

Hartford Democrats Make Primary Choices Tuesday

2011-09-09 15:34:45

City Democrats will head to the polls Tuesday to choose six city council candidates, one mayoral candidate and a treasurer candidate. In a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a ratio of 18-to-1, the primary is a good predictor of November's...

21 Towns Go To Polls To Choose Candidates

2011-09-13 04:17:00

Voters from 21 cities and towns began voting this morning to select party-endorsed candidates for the Nov. 8 election ballot. Polls opened at 6 a.m. and will close at 8 p.m. Democratic primaries will be held in Cromwell, East Hartford, Guilford,...

Big Night For Democrats; Upsets In Middletown, Milford

2011-11-08 21:02:00

Democrats swept to victories Tuesday in Waterbury, New Britain, Middletown and Milford as well-organized candidates pounded away on local issues and got their voters to the polls in the state’s big cities. In Middletown, Democrat Dan Drew...

Hartford Mayor Enters Nominating Convention In Position Of Strength

2011-07-20 08:11:00

Mayor Pedro Segarra has put himself in a comfortable position as he gets ready for Thursday's Democratic nominating convention. His strongest opponent stepped aside three weeks ago in an agreement brokered by Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, leaving Segarra a...

Segarra Gets Endorsement, City Council, Treasurer Races Highly Contested

2011-07-21 19:43:00

Mayor Pedro Segarra easily won the endorsement Thursday at the city's Democratic nominating convention, while the city council race was strongly contested. Segarra defeated Edwin Vargas, a member of the city's planning and zoning commission, and J....

Where Are The Women For City Council?

2011-07-22 15:04:00

Hartford Democrats cashiered their antiquated racial quotas for the party's city council slate last Thursday. That development — as well as more robust competition among council candidates — was the best outcome from the party's first...

Hartford City Council President Shawn Wooden addresses the chamber before Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra gives his third annual state of the city address inside the council chambers at Hartford City Hall Monday evening.

2013-03-11 00:00:00

A regular poker player, former Dolphin defensive back Shawn Wooden hung in until the final few tables.

2012-10-03 11:30:00

Promising first two seasons of 1996 and 1997 yields four of his five career interceptions. Had two stints and spent eight of his nine NFL seasons in Miami.

2012-07-19 00:00:00

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