I love it when area officials get together to pound podiums about the state’s tax structure and froth about regional cooperation. That’s what happened Thursday
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The Library Referendum: Yes Or No? Plus: Abate Flushed
I was looking to create a little trouble Wednesday afternoon. (Yeah, I can’t help myself.) So I called Jim O’Donnell, the genial president of the Bridgeport Library
Read moreRamos On The Run, School Attendance, Jodi’s Port Plan, Another GOP Candidate, And Mary Travers
Stubbornness can be a tricky thing for a person in a powerful position. Depends if you’re on the side of the angels. Superintendent of Schools
Read moreWhat’s Residency? The Eleanor Guedes Case, Plus: Primary Insanity, And Ramos Statement
1 p.m. update From the City Charter: Section 13. Board and Commission Members; Residency Requirement. Except as otherwise provided in this charter, no person shall
Read moreCougar’s Coulter Blast, Plus: The Early Vote Count, And Finch Resuscitates Nurse Pay
Coming Monday: The residency of Bridgeport’s Civil Service Commission president. Weekend Update: This shit is too funny. Check out the video of former City Councilman Keith
Read more09/09/09 … Oh Nurses! Plus: UBelong Here, And Finch Development Announcement
3:30 p.m. update: Why are city school nurses getting screwed? Not a freaking paycheck all summer. As a result, many couldn’t pay their mortgages, car
Read moreWhy Can’t We Be Friends? Plus: Judge Underhill Dumps Public Financing, And Mayor’s Storm Warning
Mary-Jane Foster Rina Bakalar Dottie Guman And now Carolanne Curry These women all supported Bill Finch’s mayoralty in 2007, worked their fannies off, in fact, to
Read moreThe Attack On Civil Service
Mayors are in a position to make things happen. And that’s the position Mayor Bill Finch is in nearly two years into his mayoralty. He
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