From the Q Poll:
In a 2014 rematch of the 2010 Connecticut governor’s race, Republican challenger Tom Foley gets 43 percent to 40 percent for Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. [Read more →]
Q Poll: Foley, Malloy Tight Race
June 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Fardy: Bridgeport’s Budget Director In Charge Of City’s ‘Secret Society’
June 18th, 2013 · 7 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council
Retired city firefighter Andy Fardy, in an OIB commentary, takes a hose to city budget director Tom Sherwood, claiming the city’s money man controls more than city purse strings. Fardy says information from city government is as tight as a clam. His commentary:
Did you know there is a Secret Society in Bridgeport? This group includes 19 Council people elected by the voters of Bridgeport. An adjunct part of this Secret Society is the City Attorney’s office where some Charter statements are ignored and other rules are made up or interpreted to help the Secret Society reach its goals. Other Society members include most department heads in Bridgeport government. They do not ask questions. They do what they are told. These days they aren’t even allowed to talk directly to the Mayor, the elected leader.
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Dispute Over Downtown Senior Center Leads To Suspension, Colon Defends Employee On Leave
June 18th, 2013 · 10 Comments · Development and Zoning, News and Events
Another city employee has been suspended with pay, this time involving a dispute between Rosemary Wong, a services coordinator for the Downtown senior center and Alanna Kabel, assistant chief administrative officer. Interestingly, according to a story by the CT Post, Leticia Colon, a member of the Board of Education and former City Council member who represented Downtown seniors, came to the defense of Wong accusing Kabel of an unprofessional outburst. From the Post:
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Beardsley Park Deadbeats Cause Traffic Danger
June 17th, 2013 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, News and Events
Marilyn Middlemass, veteran member of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee, is ripping mad over illegal parking on East Main Street causing dangerous situations for drivers and pedestrians in her Upper East Side neighborhood near Beardsley Park. Deadbeats park on East Main Street, she says, to avoid paying the park entrance fee. She has complained to police and City Council members from her district, to no avail. So she made a pitch to the entire City Council Monday night. It raises a question, if requests from party regulars fall on deaf ears, what about regular folk? Here’s what she said:
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Public Hearings On Downtown Property Developments
June 17th, 2013 · 26 Comments · City Council, Development and Zoning, News and Events
Public hearings will take place Monday (tonight) 7 p.m. before the regular meeting of the City Council in council chambers, 45 Lyon Terrace, regarding disposition of city-owned properties scheduled for redevelopment, including those beleaguered properties in Downtown North above Fairfield Avenue on Main Street.
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The Road To Manny’s Mansion–Who’s Minding The Store?
June 19th, 2013 · 15 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council
Events can suck the oxygen out of a government administration. In the short term, at least, the city authorizing a radioactive developer to install a taxpayer-financed $400,000 driveway/roadway to his own waterfront mansion in Stratford (while having a business relationship with the airport manager) as part of a municipally owned airport improvement project, looks like air-traffic controllers on a snooze. From top to bottom no one with any serious influence in the decision-making process said, okay boys and girls, let’s step away from this.
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