Weekend Update: Can you believe it? Mario Testa was reelected by acclamation by the 90-member Democratic Town Committee Thursday night. No opposition. No screaming. No food fights at Mario’s restaurant. Yes, let’s all join hands and sing around the campfire. City politics has become a little too quiet. Please, someone start a good rumor. I’m getting ill. [...]
Entries Categorized as 'City Budget'
Love Is In The Air, Acclaim For Mario, Plus: Shays On Sohn Plea, And Meet David Walker
March 5th, 2010 · 39 Comments · City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Education, Events, State Politics
Tags: Bill Finch·Chris Shays·Dan Malloy·Honey Parziale·Housatonic Community College·Jim Himes·Mario Testa·Mike Sohn·Ned Lamont·Pat Crossin
AB Heaven, Plus: How Grand Is Your List? And Himes Donates Rangel Bucks To His Peeps
March 3rd, 2010 · 5 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, Events
Vote totals were close, but absentee ballots made a difference in the 137th Democratic Town Committee primary.
Winners: Vidal Agosto, Manny Ayala, James Brown, Brigida Diaz, Brendaliz Fontanez, Edna Garcia, Gilberto Hernandez, Lydia Martinez and Maria Rivera. City Councilwoman Lydia Martinez is the queen of absentee ballots. She received twice as many absentee ballot votes (113 total) as [...]
Don’t Forget The Library Money, Plus: Russo Rangels Himes And SuBy’s Legal Credentials
February 25th, 2010 · 24 Comments · City Budget, Library, State Politics
As city bean counters build a budget to submit to the City Council in early April, the spending plan that begins July 1 will include a new key item, $6.9 million to support library services approved last year in a referendum by city voters.
Tags: Bob Walsh·CT Post·Hartford Courant·Jim Himes·Mario Testa·Rob Russo·Susan Bysiewicz·Tom McCarthy
BOE Bucks And Pissy Pols
February 24th, 2010 · 13 Comments · City Budget, Education, National Politics, State Politics
Last year the Board of Education gave back $4 million to help ease the city’s deficit pain. Don’t expect that to happen again. In fact, the BOE finance leader is requesting a 10 percent increase.
Tags: Bill Finch·Chris Caruso·Chris Dodd·Épernay Bistro·Jim Himes·Joe Lieberman·Keith Rodgerson·Pat Crossin·The Gallery at Black Rock
Jodi’s Bridgeport Bucks And Jail Extension, Plus: SuBy For Pooper Scooper, And Malloy’s Take On Rell
February 3rd, 2010 · 24 Comments · City Budget, Development, State Politics
Afternoon Update: Gov. Jodi Rell’s proposed 2010-11 budget that begins July 1 plugs in $189,568,331 for Bridgeport’s Statutory Formula Grant, roughly $1 million less than the current year. Slot money from gaming facilities is roughly the same, $6,109, 924. Education Cost Sharing the same, $164,195,344. Pilot payment (payment in lieu of taxes) for state owned [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Dan Malloy·Dick Blumenthal·Jodi Rell·Susan Bysiewicz
Blumenthal Casts Doubt On SuBy, Plus Steel Language, And Live And Die By The Budget
February 2nd, 2010 · 46 Comments · City Budget, City Politics, Development, State Politics
Afternoon Update: Yikes! Be careful what you request.
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal dealt, at the very least, a public relations blow to Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz who wants Dick’s job as he seeks Chris Dodd’s U.S. Senate seat. SuBy asked Dick for an opinion: does she have the legal professional qualifications to run for [...]
Tags: Andre Baker·Bill Finch·Bob Walsh·Chris Dodd·Dick Blumenthal·George Jepsen·Hartford Courant·Jim Holloway·Jodi Rell·John DeStefano·Susan Bysiewicz
