Many mountains ago a conversation centered on a local wiseguy who received a pinch for this and that. A Westport attorney who knew his way
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Category: Analysis and Comment
Scalpel Time: City Council Budget Chairs Seek Quixotic Eight Percent Department Reductions
It’s a big ask that will arouse irritation or perspiration, if not outright mock horror, but the co-chairs of the City Council’s Budget & Appropriations
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Health Director Maritza Bond Taking New Haven Job
Maritza Bond on Thursday announced her resignation as city health director effective January 23 to occupy the same role for the city of New Haven.
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Acting No More: School Board In Stealth Meeting Taps Testani Permanent School Chief
The Board of Education Monday night voted surreptitiously to hire Michael Testani superintendent of schools for three years starting July 1. He has been serving
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City Councilman Marcus Brown Examines Legislative Landscape–Will He Challenge Moore For State Senate?
Decision time for a bunch of political operatives including West Side City Councilman Marcus Brown. Brown emerged several years ago as one of the new
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Judge Radcliffe’s Ruling Moves DeFilippo Step Closer To Liquor Store Opening
Superior Court Judge Dale Radcliffe on Friday removed an obstacle to City Councilman Michael DeFilippo’s years-long legal skirmish to reopen a liquor store on Brooklawn
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‘Rock And Roll’–Newton Weighs State Senate Run Against Bradley
City Councilman Ernie Newton, the “returning citizen navigator,” is a resilient survivor in city politics. You gotta get up to get down. Newton know the
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Happy Urine Year: OIB Story Goes Viral In 2019, The Literal Pissing Contest Between Pereira And Newton
Readers were both fascinated and speechless in April, and it became the royal flush of stories that went national. Maria Pereira and Ernie Newton now
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