Politics is a crazy business. It takes endurance, timing and patience. Down one day, up the next. Banned to parts unknown, resurrected by events. Ernie
Read moreDay: April 21, 2016
Mercury Rises Over Suds Flap
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: A City Council “informational session” on changing zoning rules controlling liquor sales threatened to turn into a rowdy bar brawl
Read moreWhat About The Library Budget?
There hasn’t been a lot of public noise made about the proposed cut to the library budget, a point made by citizen fiscal watchdog John
Read moreGene “Poppy” Farkas
OIB friend Gene Farkas, the father of ex-city Tax Assessor Elaine Carvalho, passed away on Tuesday. In 2014, OIB saluted his decency and sense of
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