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From the Wakeman Boys & Girls Smilow-Burroughs Club: Wakeman Boys & Girls Club Celebrates Grand Opening of 23,000 Square Foot Bridgeport Clubhouse More than 1,000 children in grades 3 – 12 to benefit Officials from the Wakeman Boys & Girls Club joined residents from Bridgeport’s West End and Black Rock neighborhoods to celebrate the long [...]
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Thursday Music Series
June 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Development and Zoning, News and Events
From Mayor Finch: Downtown Thursdays Returns with Eclectic Lineup of Local Artists. City’s Downtown After-Work Concert Series Now in its Second Year; WTNH’s Kristen Cusato to Serve as Emcee
Tags: Bill Finch·Don Eversley·Gathering of the Vibes·William "Ron" Bailey
Zip! Malloy’s Plan B Haircut To City, Nearly $1 Million (And Maybe More) … But A Rescue Plan?
June 30th, 2011 · 12 Comments · City Budget
UPDATE: ctmirror.org/story/13139/cities-win-state-employees-lose-budget-deal The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities, an advocacy group on behalf of cities and towns, says Bridgeport is slated to lose nearly $1 million in state funding for the budget year that begins July 1 if Governor Dannel Malloy’s Plan B is implemented following a dramatic rejection of proposed union concessions by state workers. The General [...]
Tags: Dan Malloy
Kohut’s Cure For Failing Schools
June 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments · City Politics, Education
The city’s education system is a mess. Jeff Kohut, independent candidate for mayor, shares his views to fix a broken school system. Equal doses of pragmatism and idealism are needed to address the Bridgeport public- education morass “… We are constantly faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems …” Lee Iacocca
Tags: Jeff Kohut
What Is A Real Investment In Education?
June 30th, 2011 · 3 Comments · City Budget, Education, Library
John Marshall Lee, co-founder of a fiscal watchdog group attending a variety of government public meetings, shares an essay that examines the city’s investment in public education. Public budgets are things of wonder. The City Charter calls for the presentation of a balanced budget each year along a certain timeline process. A balanced budget indicates that [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·John Marshall Lee
Humbug! Who’s Behind The Billboard Against Bill?
June 29th, 2011 · 32 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
The buzz this week is about the billboard. Who’s behind it? Who’s paying for it? If you’re John Q. Citizen acting alone (not conspiring with a campaign) to influence a primary election, state law says you can spend as much as you want but you must file a disclosure form if more than $1,000 is spent on [...]
Tags: Bill Finch
July Fourth Weekend–Time For Campaign Fireworks
June 30th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics
Today is the last day of the municipal budget year. Have you received your tax bill? Mayor Bill Finch says he’s happy to be entering an election season without a tax increase. Several issues have popped up in neighborhoods such as Black Rock, in the school system and police and fire departments that will test hizzoner’s campaign [...]
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Tags: Bill Finch·Mary-Jane Foster