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		<title>Should City Council Members Be Paid?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob "Troll" Walsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Ganim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newly empaneled Charter Revision Commission begins its regular meetings this week examining a host of city issues that may be shaped in the form of a question for city voters to decide, presumably in the November general election. Should the question of compensating City Council members be placed on the ballot? Phil Smith, who served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money For A Good Cause&#8211;How About A City Council Caucus Under Water?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would we be if we couldn&#8217;t make fun of our favorite local legislative body? Only In Bridgeport do they promise truth-telling on a street called Lyon. But we must note as well the good things they do so comes now a plug for City Council President Tom McCarthy skinny dipping (well, almost) on Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John $taf$trom&#8217;s UConn Coup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Democratic Town Chair John Stafstrom is a happy man today. Who could blame him? The attorney for Bridgeport-based Pullman &#38; Comley structured the agreement that eventually led to the approval Monday by the State Bond Commission of $291 million for Maine-based Jackson Laboratory to construct a new building and create upwards of 300 bioscience jobs at the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charter Revision Commission To Hold First Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first meeting of the Charter Revision Commission created by Mayor Bill Finch and the City Council will take place tonight (Tuesday). As we await a ruling from the Connecticut Supreme Court regarding the legality of the state takeover of city schools, the mayor wants the commission to focus on education initiatives. For background on [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Library]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andy Fardy]]></category>
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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>Is Minority Party Representation On The Table For Charter Revision? Mike Garrett Says It Should Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George Estrada]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mario Testa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Moran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update with Mike Garrett comments: The seven-member Charter Revision Commission will look at reshaping the way school board members are chosen, among other items. The Bridgeport Board of Education is currently an elected body on hold as a result of state control of city schools that has created an appointed commission. Could a hybrid of elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finch Names Members To Charter Revision Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mary-Jane Foster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ruben Felipe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Bill Finch has appointed seven Bridgeport residents to serve on a new Charter Revision Commission designed to modernize an antiquated City Charter and examine education reform. The members include a former Republican town chairman, an executive at the University of Bridgeport, a city pastor and the mayor&#8217;s deputy chief of staff. Voters must ultimately approve the recommendations made by [...]]]></description>
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