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CT Capitol Report www.ctcapitolreport.com features several links today led by ”Here Come The Casinos,” a reference to the gaming growth surrounding Connecticut. How much revenue will the state lose as a result?
Entries from May 16th, 2012
Want To Know What’s In The City Budget? Eat Your OATs At The Library
November 27th, 2011 · 8 Comments · City Budget, Library
OIB commenters John Marshall Lee (BEACON2) and Andy Fardy (town committee) aren’t bashful about sharing city budget items that get under their skin. Lee says some pols have a funny definition of “open, accountable and transparent” or OATs. Sometimes OATs must be force fed. Lee and Fardy have attended dozens of city budget meetings, scoured the [...]
Tags: Andy Fardy·John Marshall Lee
Home Rehab Program Extended To Nov. 30
November 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · News and Events
From Mayor Finch: The application deadline has been extended for a City program which will assist qualified homeowners with no-interest loans to make necessary emergency repairs to their single or multi-family dwellings. The Residential Rehabilitation Loan Program, recently launched by Mayor Bill Finch, and administered through the City’s Central Grants Office, will allow income-eligible property [...]
Tags: Bill Finch
The Search For A School Chief On Hold Until Ruling By Supremes
November 24th, 2011 · 26 Comments · Education, News and Events
From Linda Conner Lambeck, CT Post: The district’s state-appointed school board won’t hire a search firm to find a new school superintendent until the state Supreme Court decides if the law used to create the new board was constitutional and properly used. Read more: www.ctpost.com/local/article/School-board-holding-off-on-superintendent-search-2291488.php
Tags: CT Post·Linda Conner Lambeck
Turkey? Try Squirrel Cacciatore
November 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Best of Bridgeport
A happy, fat, blissful Turkey Day to all my OIB friends. Feel free to post whatever’s on your plate this Thanksgiving weekend from your fondest Thanksgiving memories to your Turkey of the Year nominations. Attached is one of my favorite Thanksgiving-like stories that I wrote for Connecticut Magazine several years ago, a feature about Bridgeport native Joe [...]
Tags: Connecticut Magazine·Jack McGregor·Joe Haines·Mary-Jane Foster
Malloy: What’s Going On Around Here!
November 22nd, 2011 · 1 Comment · News and Events, State Politics
From Ken Dixon, CT Post: HARTFORD — With its final deadline of midnight Nov. 30 looming, it’s likely the state’s Reapportionment Committee may gamble on sending the redrawing of Connecticut’s political map to state Superior Court. But Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Tuesday said it is important for the committee to conclude its work on [...]
Tags: CT Post·Dan Malloy·Jim Himes·Ken Dixon