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	<title>Only In Bridgeport® &#187; City Budget</title>
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	<description>with Lennie Grimaldi</description>
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		<title>Step Up Reformers! Public Hearing On Charter Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speak up now or forever hold your &#8230; whatever. The Bridgeport Charter Revision Commission empaneled by Mayor Bill Finch will conduct a public hearing tonight at 5:30 in City Council Chambers, 45 Lyon Terrace. Members of the public who intend to testify must sign the speakers list upon arrival at the public hearing, according to the mayor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Fiscal Watchdogs Bark Do Humans Listen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to city finances OIB posters John Marshall Lee (BEACON2) and Andy Fardy (town committee) are relentless hounds in pursuit. They scour budget books, review city expenditures, make community presentations, meet with Connecticut Post reporters and share reports on OIB. Lee owns an insurance company, Fardy is a retired city arson investigator. Talk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmuzzling City Finances</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bridgeport Public Library: Bridgeport – City Budgets and Balance Sheets: 101 (a view from the &#8220;cheap seats&#8221; as a taxpayer &#8230;) Thursday, Jan. 12, 6 p.m. North End Branch, 3455 Madison Avenue) Civic leaders often use words like &#8220;open, accountable, transparent&#8221; (O.A.T.) to characterize their activities and processes. However, when you follow the money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troll On A Roll&#8211;Reconsider Police And Fire Chief Contracts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former City Councilman Bob &#8220;Troll&#8221; Walsh has been sharpening his teeth the past few days in letters to his old mates. Does the &#8220;Troll&#8221; miss the council action? The latest letter urges his City Council representatives Evette Brantley and John Olson who replaced Walsh when he decided to retire in 2011 to pull back &#8220;questionable&#8221; contracts recently approved [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Drops Coal In Finch Stocking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Post editorial: It is beyond tone deaf, in this time of record unemployment, municipal layoffs, concessions and struggle for the average working taxpayer that Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch would propose pay raises for his inner circle. It&#8217;s particularly staggering when you consider that this plan must have been part of the pre-Nov. 8 municipal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Seeks Charter Revision Commission With Education Focus&#8211;Gaudett, Rooney Contracts Approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks into a new four-year term, Mayor Bill Finch is forming a Charter Revision  Commission designed to modernize an antiquated City Charter and examine education reform. What does this all mean? Voters must ultimately approve the recommendations made by the commission created by a vote of the City Council. The mayor does not specify what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s A Government Position Worth? Check Out These Salaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RayFusci</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What salaries should be set for city officials and unaffiliated employees? Amendments to these positions, roughly 80, are established in a proposed city ordinance that includes chief appointed positions such as police and fire, discretionary appointments of the mayor, department heads, mayoral staff and support positions. The ordinance states: &#8220;The Mayor may authorize salary increases [...]]]></description>
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