City fiscal analyst John Marshall Lee stepped up to the council chambers lectern Monday night with a calling to the legislative body about oversight and
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Category: Analysis and Comment
Taylor: Let State Deal With School Deficit, ‘Not Our Job To Assassinate Our Own Students’
On the verge of hiring an interim school chief for one year followed by a process to select a longer term leader, the Board of
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On Father’s Day Weekend, A Visit From Mama Bear
I bleed Bridgeport, but reside in Redding, a wilderness hamlet to the north. When not analyzing the political minefields of Connecticut’s largest city the sticks
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Bridgeport Booster Charlie Coviello Dies–Newton: A True Friend
Charlie Coviello, four-time mayoral candidate, paperboy for Bridgeport’s legendary Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy and a fixture in city politics for the past 40 years, passed
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Bridgeport’s ‘Gay Pride Pioneer’ Joe Grabarz Raises A Flag For Justice
On Dec. 17, 1990, well before passage of civil unions and legal marriage for gay couples, 34-year-old Connecticut State House member Joseph Grabarz did something
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The Power Of News 12: We Park Where We Want Against The Rules Because We Can
When you’re News 12 sympathetic to all things local and the political establishment you can park anywhere in Connecticut’s largest city. Case in point News
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Moore Beefs Up Campaign Presence Above Joseph’s Steakhouse Downtown
State Senator Marilyn Moore’s campaign for mayor is planting its campaign flag, on flag day, in a curious office location, above Joseph’s Steakhouse in a
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Outside For Decades, Internal Struggle Of Local Republicans Takes Shape, Plus: Decision Time For Ganim’s Dem Challengers
What, a split in the Bridgeport Republican Party? The machinations of local Republicans this mayoral cycle are certainly personality based with one wing of the
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