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Entries from May 16th, 2012

It’s A Grape Weekend

March 21st, 2009 · 42 Comments · City Budget, State Politics

Hey, what are you doing this weekend? I’m helping my father bottle this year’s crop of Casa Grimaldi: bottle of red … bottle of white. Not exactly, just red vino in our household. We like the cancer-killing grape. Yeah baby, garlic, olive oil and red wine. What else do we need? Bread!!! Maybe I’ll bring [...]

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A Little Spring Cleaning

March 20th, 2009 · 25 Comments · News and Events

Throw open the windows, pull out your drawers, air out that closet. Spring is here so I’m wondering (this can be dangerous) how would you clean house? Take a powerwash to Chris Dodd and call it even? Make public financing of local elections voluntary? Or maybe mandatory? Rip up all downtown streets and finally begin [...]

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Lotsa Beans For Bridgeport, Plus: Dodd’s Water Torture

March 19th, 2009 · 49 Comments · City Budget, News and Events

I’m in search of beans. Not just any beans. Fava beans. That’s right, because today is St. Joseph’s Day, my middle namesake. Who cares about St. Joseph’s Day? C’mon, good Joseph did a mighty fine job fathering Jesus considering it was a heavenly stimulus that juiced his boy’s arrival. And what about the beans? Joseph is the [...]

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Trumbull’s Flush Job, News From The Post, And Monkey Suit

March 18th, 2009 · 28 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, Media

If the city is going to create a regional waste water authority, looks like it’ll have to do it without Trumbull. Trumbull is sandwiched by Bridgeport and Monroe, so the only way Monroe can send its effluent to Bridgeport is through Trumbull. But Trumbull doesn’t want to play so this creates a fascinating configuration. State law [...]

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The Green Green Loot Of Fundraising, Plus: Poop Update And A St. Paddy’s Story

March 17th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, Cops, Development and Zoning, News and Events

3:30 p.m. UPDATE: Cool parade today on a sweet sunny day in beautiful downtown Bridgeport. I must confess that I had not taken in a St. Paddy’s Parade in the city in years. The parade was more than an hour long and loaded with bands, floats and city pols. To veteran parade watchers it was the best [...]

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Polishing The Pleasure, Plus: Rob And Dodd

March 16th, 2009 · 13 Comments · Development and Zoning, News and Events, State Politics

When I was a kid my father drove me across the wooden bridge that connected the East End to Pleasure Beach–clank, clank, clank–to fish the t-shaped pier for snapper blues. A bamboo pole, line, hook, minnow and bang, nothing like hauling in a snapper when you’re a kid. But watch it, those little bastards feature teeth so sharp you can cut [...]

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Blackmail At Matty’s

March 14th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Cops, News and Events

I’ll tell ya how old I’m getting; I was a scribe covering the remedy order that U.S. District Court Judge T.F. Gilroy Daly issued in 1983 to resolve racial discrimination in the Bridgeport Police Department. Daly assigned a special master to oversee his order that created balance in assignments, promotions, dispute resolution, etc. Critics of [...]

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