Fully funding education, 100 percent reimbursement of tax-exempt properties, tax relief for cities. Adding up Governor Ned Lamont’s 2018 campaign promises represents more than $100
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Category: City Budget
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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Ganim, In New Term, To Address Education And Public Housing
Mayor Joe Ganim is expected to announce some personnel changes to his administration in the coming days. In advance of that he issued a news
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Strap In City Council Members, Here Comes Maria Piranha
When a new City Council convenes in December it will feature current faces, new faces, returning faces and one piranha with seriously sharp teeth: that
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Turn The Pages, Ethan Book Blowtorches His Rivals
Strap in for an extraordinary read from Republican Ethan Book, one of four write-in candidates for mayor. Regular OIB readers know this as Book-speak. For
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Ganim Pledges Tax Cut, More Money For Education
Cutting taxes, safer streets, more money for education. Those are promises Mayor Joe Ganim made Tuesday night–if he receives another four-year term–four weeks from the
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City Council Approves Senior Citizen Tax Relief, Money For School Bus Transportation
Update: Both the senior tax relief and transportation items passed full council Tuesday night. The City Council on Tuesday will vote on a senior citizen
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School Board Restores Bus Routes For Students
The Board of Education Monday night, urged by Mayor Joe Ganim, restored bus routes that impact student walking distances to school. The decision comes with
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