Just days from Tuesday’s Covid-delayed preference primaries for president including four legislative races in Bridgeport, a modest 937 absentee ballots from Democrats citywide have been
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Category: Analysis and Comment
City Council Resolution Seeks To Reel In Pereira’s Conduct
City Council President Aidee Nieves and East End councilor Ernie Newton assert there’s been an “increase in unbecoming, abusive and unparliamentary conduct, at City Council
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Brown-Moore State Senate Primary–Incumbency Versus Top-Line Mantra
In any given year on paper the Democratic primary match-up between incumbent State Senator Marilyn Moore and party-endorsed City Councilman Marcus Brown would be a
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When A Taxpayer-Paid Mailer Becomes A Promotional Campaign Boost
In the old days they were called franking privileges: legislators’ taxpayer-paid mailers to communicate with constituents. Essentially they become a surrogate boost to an incumbent’s
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Disingenuous Bradley Rejects Public Health For Political Pandering
When Dennis Bradley was a candidate for State Senate and came up short against incumbent Ed Gomes it was yeah, baby, fire up that absentee
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Paging Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria–City Council Secures Special Meeting To Address Columbus Statue
After a lotta, well, waves, the City Council will get its special meeting Tuesday night at 7 to jawbone the return of the Christopher Columbus
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Record-Breaking: More Than 6,000 Absentee Ballot Requests For August 11 Primary
Six thousand and rising. That’s the number of requests for absentee ballots in this outlier of a presidential preference primary August 11 that also includes
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Mercury Versus The Minster–Barr, Stallworth Tangle For State House Seat
On the final day a public grant could be approved before the August 11 primary, Tony Barr, the former Democratic Town Committee member, received word
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