This has to be some kind of first: campaigning during the holidays. Two months from another Democratic primary for mayor adds new issue machinations such
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Category: Analysis and Comment
Beware: Asian Longhorned Ticks
Several years ago a lone star tick burrowed into me. “The good news,” said my doctor “you don’t have Lyme. The bad news is you
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Recalling Wild Election Year 1983, No Democrat Endorsed For Mayor
It’s the summer of 1983, the scene Registrar of Voters Office in McLevy Hall on State Street. A half dozen Democratic mayoral candidates and several
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Commentary: Maybe The Bigger Problem Is ‘Absent Voters’ Not Absentee Voters
Political observer John Marshall Lee writes in this commentary “Citizens, eligible and registered to vote, staying away from the polls can be termed “absent voters”.
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What’s Next In The Ganim-Gomes Saga…Snow?
When was the last time it snowed on election day? Could happen in this screwy-wabbit election season. Negotiations are underway between lawyers representing Mayor Joe
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Kohut: Missing Big Picture In Bridgeport General Election Results
Former mayoral candidate and Ethics Commission member Jeff Kohut shares his take on the general election results: It is difficult for this lifelong Bridgeporter to
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Mayoral Candidates Urge Turnout For General Election – Republican Herz: We Are Not Sheep
In less than 24 hours voting will begin for the general election. Polls close at 8 p.m. Don’t know where you vote? See here Mayor
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It’s The Emperor (Ganim) And Darth Vader (Gomes) Versus Luke Skywalker (Daniels) – So Says A Black Rock Republican
Paging George Lucas. Black Rocker Chadwick Ciocci, a former Republican town council majority leader in Trumbull, is backing petitioning candidate Lamond Daniels for mayor, calling
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