CL&P President and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey Butler says: “When we had the weather forecast and everything we looked at in preparation for this storm, the amount of snow that ended up falling was far more significant than what had been forecast” So what! From Rick Green, Hartford Courant, blogs.courant.com/rick_green/2011/11/the-confusing-comments-of-clp.html
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Dude, You Can’t Be Serious?
November 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · News and Events
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Cool Like Steel–A Photo Perspective
November 2nd, 2011 · 18 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Best of Bridgeport, Development and Zoning
Kudos to an OIB friend supplying a sweet piece of pictorial history. As a followup to the Steel Point item on Tuesday Dr. Frank Gerratana, whose father was photography chief for the old Bridgeport Herald, shared an aerial taken by his dad circa 1957 as construction of the Connecticut Turnpike advances across the harbor on the East Side [...]
Creating Afterschool Opportunities
November 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Best of Bridgeport, City Council, Education
Tammy Papa, without fanfare, has provided numerous afterschool opportunities for needy kids through the city’s Lighthouse Program. This news release from Mayor Bill Finch highlights enrichment programs for city students commissioned by the Wallace Foundation via the National League of Cities.
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Groundbreaking For West Side Project
November 2nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Development and Zoning, News and Events
POKO Partners, a Port Chester, NY based real estate development and management company will break ground Thursday on Clinton Commons, a multi-family construction project on the West Side. Company website www.pokopartners.com/index.html. Details of the groundbreaking from the company:
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Voter Registration Extended
November 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · News and Events
From Connecticut Secretary of the State Denise Merrill: Merrill: Governor’s Executive Order Extends Voter Registration Deadline for Municipal Elections Until Monday November 7th at Noon Secretary of the State Coordinates with Local Election Officials on Unprecedented Action Due to Severity of Storm Damage
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Paging The Mayoral Candidates–A ‘Frank ‘n’ Stein Mailing’
November 2nd, 2011 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics
Six days from the general election and very little word from the respective campaign camps. No statements, news releases, charges, countercharges or irresponsible accusations. What’s a campaign without someone spewing something over the top? It’s a Bridgeport ritual, is it not? Has Mayor Bill Finch anesthetized the entire electorate? We might have to start calling him [...]
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Tags: Bill Finch·Jeff Kohut·Mary-Jane Foster·Rick Torres·Tom Kelly