The Bridgeport Theater Company is launching a new season in partnership with the Downtown Cabaret. Check it out: BRIDGEPORT THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS “HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD” After a successful first season, Bridgeport Theatre Company is ready to enter their second season! BTC kicks off their “It Takes 2: 2011/12 Season” with this year’s annual benefit concert [...]
Entries from January 25th, 2012
Mayor To Open Police Substation
July 29th, 2011 · 34 Comments · Cops, News and Events
Mayor Bill Finch’s Take Back the Neighborhood walk scheduled for Black Rock tonight has been postponed due to possible showers, according to the mayor’s office. The mayor on Saturday will open a new police substation on the East Side. From the mayor:
Foster Releases Slate, Coviello Drops Out Of Mayoral Race, Denise “Duh” Merrill Punts
July 28th, 2011 · 55 Comments · City Politics, Education, News and Events
Here we go again, another election storm hit the Park City, this time over candidates for the Board of Education. The state has taken control of city schools, so we think. But what triggers state control? The state education commissioner appointing a five-member panel to oversee schools, per state statute? Does anyone in the state of Connecticut [...]
Tags: Alberto "Tito" Ayala·Andy Fardy·Anthony Musto·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Bridgeport Bluefish·Charlie Coviello·Denise Merrill·Dwayne McBride·Harding High School·Joel Gonzalez·Marilyn Moore·Mary-Jane Foster·Santa Ayala·Susan Bysiewicz
Foster Wants To Run A BOE Slate–Another Election Storm?–Marilyn Moore Seeks City Clerk Office
July 28th, 2011 · 46 Comments · City Politics, Education, News and Events
UPDATE: Democratic mayoral candidate Mary-Jane Foster, who opposes the state mothballing the Bridgeport BOE, wants to run a slate of school board candidates on her ticket. She is asking local election officials to release petition papers to secure signatures from registered Dems for BOE candidates. Democratic Registrar of Voters Sandi Ayala is asking state elections officials for guidance in light of a [...]
Tags: Alberto "Tito" Ayala·Andy Fardy·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Charlie Coviello·Dwayne McBride·Joel Gonzalez·John Gomes·Marilyn Moore·Mary-Jane Foster·Santa Ayala
Bridgeport’s Banana Split
July 28th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment
Mayor Bill Finch is pushing this new campaign, Let’s Move Bridgeport. I’m thinking (always a dangerous thing), considering the state is moving the Bridgeport Board of Education to the back burner, maybe we should should revisit the OIB proposal to move (split up) Bridgeport into the suburbs.
Tags: Bill Finch·Joe Ganim·Lee Samowitz·Mario Testa·Mary-Jane Foster·Tim Herbst
Grab A Frisbee, Let’s Move Bridgeport
July 28th, 2011 · 8 Comments · News and Events
From Mayor Bill Finch: ‘Let’s Move Bridgeport Day’ Features Group Frisbee Toss Record Breaker WHAT: The public is invited to join in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Book record for the most number of people to simultaneously throw a Frisbee at least 10 feet.
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Will The State Really Improve City Schools?–The Trouble With Dreamy Slogans
July 30th, 2011 · 76 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education
“Together we are making Bridgeport the cleanest, greenest, safest most affordable city, with schools and neighborhoods that improve each year” … Mayor Bill Finch For nearly four years Mayor Bill Finch has trumpeted the declaration above his battle cry. “Schools … that improve each year.” Really? Then one day we all woke up to learn that city schools were [...]
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