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From Keila Torres, Connecticut Post: A building collapsed at 588 East Main St., in Bridgeport Thursday afternoon after a line of violent thunderstorms downed trees and power lines. Emergency crews rushed to the scene. People are reportedly trapped in the muilti-story building. State Police are bringing in a canine unit to help locate anyone trapped [...]
Entries from May 16th, 2012
Assessing The Nightmare In Elm City
June 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Media
Talk to folks who’ve encountered Bill O’Brien, Bridgeport’s former tax assessor now catching heat in New Haven, and it’s like fighting the bastard child of Freddy Krueger and Darth Vader. Our friends at the New Haven Independent are chronicling the steady stream of complaints about the public servant who so many in Bridgeport claim took a lot of [...]
No Confidence, What Will The Unions Do? Plus: Soccer Fever
June 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · City Budget, Cops, State Politics
Today is a key day with the new budget year starting in one week. If the city does not hear from union leadership regarding concessions the city needs for closing a multi-million dollar budget gap, layoff notices will begin to go out. Unions say we’ve given enough. City management says we have no other choice without givebacks.
Wood Steps Up For Ned, Plus: Didn’t Jodi Say We Were Broke?
June 23rd, 2010 · 23 Comments · City Budget, City Council, City Politics, State Politics
Mayor Bill Finch’s Chief of Staff Adam Wood is taking a leave of absence to serve as a campaign strategist to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont. Wood’s official leave comes at the end of the week. Wood, the mayor’s chief political adviser, is a seasoned campaign operative who’s managed races for both mayor and congress on behalf of [...]
Tags: Adam Wood·Bill Finch·Dan Malloy·Hartford Courant·Jodi Rell·Mario Testa·Ned Lamont·Ruben Felipe
The Punishment Barr
June 21st, 2010 · 6 Comments · City Council
I say proper punishment is locking up Evette Brantley and Cecil Young in a room and forcing them to listen to Roseanne Barr singing the National Anthem. From Keila Torres, Connecticut Post: Cecil Young has been issued an infraction for “creating a public disturbance” at the City Council meeting on May 17. As you are [...]
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Who’s Your Caddie? Plus: Schiff On Ballot
June 21st, 2010 · 18 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Library, State Politics
An interesting configuration of local pols, sometimes friends, sometimes not, are lining up behind their respective Democratic candidates for governor. Ned Lamont received the backing of the entire Bridgeport delegation at the state party convention last month. Some delegates went with the flow to be cooperating members of Team Lamont led by Mayor Bill Finch and Democratic Party Chair Mario Testa, [...]
Tags: Adam Wood·Andres Ayala·Auden Grogins·Bill Finch·Chris Caruso·Dan Malloy·Danny Roach·John DeStefano·John Fabrizi·John Stafstrom·Lisa "Honey" Parziale·Mario Testa·Ned Lamont·Peter Schiff·Ralph Ford·Susan Bysiewicz
Rick Torres Stirs Emotions
June 22nd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events, State Politics
If you like your politics conservative, fiscally and socially, Rick Torres fits both. Rick is a passionate pol who stirs passionate responses. He has qualified for the ballot to challenge GOP-endorsed State Senator Dan Debicella, a Bridgeport native, in an August primary the winner to face Fourth District Democratic Congressman Jim Himes. Rob Merkle, of Norwalk, founder of an executive search firm [...]
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