OIB friend, past CC member and past council president Lisa Parziale comments on the state of Bridgeport city management by both the mayor and City Council, and encourages others to get involved to fix the problems. December 2015 ended two terms of leadership under former Mayor Bill Finch, and the torch was then passed to […]
Entries Categorized as 'City Council'
Parziale Sums It Up
September 27th, 2016 · 19 Comments · City Council, City Politics, Education, Law Enforcement
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·Joe Ganim·John Fabrizi·Lisa "Honey" Parziale·Mike Freimuth
Show Me The Money???!!!
September 25th, 2016 · 22 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Financial watchdog John Marshal Lee reports on the Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department held Saturday, and questions the absence of support for education. SHOW ME THE MONEY???!!! This afternoon a “Community March in Solidarity With Our Police Department” walked a few blocks from New Hope Missionary Baptist Church at 100 Park Ave. […]
Tags: Angel DePara·Joe Ganim·John Gomes·John Marshall Lee·John Olson·M. Evette Brantley·Tom McCarthy
A Troll Samples Big Mac’s Future
September 23rd, 2016 · 23 Comments · City Council, City Politics
Former City Councilman Bob “Troll” Walsh gazes into his crystal ball to divine Council President Tom McCarthy’s political future. “After the rough year he had this year in the State Senate Primary, next year will be no walk in the park.”
Lee To Council: Use The Unanticipated State Money To Reinstate The Laid-off Kindergarten Paraprofessionals
September 22nd, 2016 · 40 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Education
Tuesday night citizen fiscal watchdog John Marshall Lee asked the City Council to allocate the recent unanticipated and therefore not yet budgeted State Municipal Revenue Sharing to the BOE to reinstate the laid-off paraprofessionals. “… think instead of a five-year-old girl or boy standing here in their third week of school in Bridgeport without the […]
General Lee Issues Ganim Report Card To City Council
September 7th, 2016 · 22 Comments · City Council, News and Events
Tuesday night citizen fiscal watchdog John Marshall Lee told the City Council “September marks the 9th month of Joe Ganim’s “second chance” Mayordom. Nine months in human terms might suggest a healthy delivery, but with Mayoral terms we need a change of perspective.”
Will Large Crowds Continue At City Council Meetings?
September 5th, 2016 · 50 Comments · City Budget, City Council, News and Events
The last two full monthly meetings of the City Council were packed courtesy of noisy homeowners, predominantly from Black Rock, West Side and North End, cranky about their July 1 tax bills. Affiliates of Citizens Working For A Better Bridgeport helped drive the turnout. They’re trying to keep up the heat asserting in a Facebook post “No, Mayor […]
Tags: Joe Ganim·John Marshall Lee
Cecil Young Is Noisy, And That’s No Bull, Airs Out Lungs In Front Of FBI Office
August 23rd, 2016 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, News and Events
Community gadfly Cecil Young‘s bullhorn is much a part of the fabric of Bridgeport as the coal burning South End smokestack. They both huff and puff and spew. Cecil’s blown out the ear drums of residents at all points in the city. Several years ago his bullhorn created such a racket in front of then Mayor […]
Tags: Angel DePara·Cecil Young·Doing It Local·M. Evette Brantley·Mario Testa·Mike Rizzitelli·Norm Pattis·Steve Krauchick·Tom McCarthy
What’s In McCarthy’s Future?
August 27th, 2016 · 61 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics
It’s been a relatively quiet summer for the City Council beyond ear-splitting cries from angry residents following July 1 tax bills. The next full meeting will not take place until September 6. The larger question is what is the future of City Council President Tom McCarthy who was lanced in an August 9 Democratic primary […]
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Tags: Anthony Musto·Bill Finch·Joe Ganim·Marilyn Moore·Mario Testa·Mary-Jane Foster·Rob Russo·Tom McCarthy