Chris Dodd’s mired in a mortgage-load of dung and it doesn’t look like things will get better for Connecticut’s senior senator any time soon. The Q Poll released this week validates Dodd’s leaky ship. Most revealing to me in the poll, however, wasn’t Dodd’s obvious general election issues, it was more how close his announced primary opponent Merrick [...]
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Park Sticker Shock!
May 28th, 2009 · 20 Comments · News and Events
Holy Frederick Law Olmsted. If you’re like me and live in the ‘burbs come July 1 you’re gonna get soaked for visiting Bridgeport’s jewel park system. The Park Board has voted to sock it to non-residents for a seasonal pass, from the current $30 to $125. That’s one mighty increase, more than 300 percent. Okay, [...]
Tags: Beardsley Park·City Lights Gallery·Discovery Museum·Seaside Park·The Gallery at Black Rock
The Legislative Toll, Plus: Education Via Dictation, Saluting Joel Thompson
May 26th, 2009 · 20 Comments · Media, News and Events, State Politics
Pass the espresso. Sleep deprivation dominates Hartford this week. The Connecticut Legislature has just over a week to finish out the regular session in an assembly already historic with the repeal of the death penalty that Governor Jodi Rell vows to veto when it reaches her desk. Lots of work still to complete like, yeah, a [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Chris Dodd·CT Post·Jodi Rell·Joe Lieberman·Joel Thompson·John Mandanici·Merrick Alpert·Ned Lamont
Long Weekend, Tons Of Chatter
May 23rd, 2009 · 42 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Civil Service, Development and Zoning, Education, News and Events
Memorial Day weekend with lots of picnic discussion: State Supreme Court orders unsealing of documents relating to sexual abuse cases the Diocese of Bridgeport spent millions to settle, Gov. Jodi Rell says she will veto the legislature’s repeal of the death penalty, local land-use attorney challenges the city’s plan of conservation and development. Bridgeport’s two [...]
Tags: Andy Fardy·Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Bill Finch·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Chris Caruso·City Lights Gallery·CT Post·Ed Gomes·Hartford Courant·Jodi Rell·John Fabrizi·Keith Rodgerson·Mark Anastasi·Max Medina·Nancy Hadley·Ralph Jacobs·Tim Herbst
The Poop Saga Continues, Plus: The Mayor And Max, And Pension News
May 21st, 2009 · 15 Comments · City Budget, Development and Zoning, Education
5 p.m. UPDATE: This is some good shit, and getting better every day. Shelton-based developer Bob Scinto wants to know how much Trumbull will charge Monroe for allowing a sewer hook up for his proposed relocation of the Jewish Home for the Elderly from Fairfield to property he owns in Monroe that will eventually end up at Bridgeport’s [...]
Tags: Anthony Musto·Bill Finch·Bob Scinto·Ed Gomes·John Ramos·Max Medina·Ray Baldwin·Rob Russo·Tim Herbst
Pension Plans And Probate Courts
May 20th, 2009 · 27 Comments · City Budget, Cops, Education, State Politics
From Ken Dixon of the Connecticut Post: HARTFORD — Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch lobbied his former colleagues in the state Senate Tuesday in an attempt to defuse a financial time bomb that could blow up and cost the city about $25 million. The improvised fiscal explosives date back 10 years, when Joseph P. Ganim, now [...]
Tags: Anthony Musto·Bill Finch·CT Post·George Bush·Jodi Rell·Joe Ganim·Michael Feeney·Paul Ganim