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Why is everyone so afraid of U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon? GOP rivals are scared. Dem operatives terrified. Well, $30 million to spend would be enough to fire up frothing flacks. From The Hartford Courant: Three professional wrestling videos on YouTube were taken down Friday after they were sharply criticized by the state Democratic Party. [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Interviews'
The Budget Impact, And New Steel Deal
September 2nd, 2009 · 39 Comments · City Budget, Development and Zoning, Interviews, State Politics
9:30 a.m. update: Lots of stuff today including the state budget impact on Bridgeport and an announcement by Mayor Bill Finch and the developer for Steelpointe Harbor, a 52-acre mixed-use redevelopment of the lower East Side, that establishes some common ground to move the languishing project forward albeit without any news that specific retailers have signed on [...]
Tags: Anthony Musto·Beardsley Zoo·Bill Finch·Bridgeport Port Authority·Discovery Museum·Don Clemons·Ed Gomes·Jim Himes·Jodi Rell·Joe Riccio·Robert Christoph·Steelpointe Harbor·Steve Krauchick
Party Picks And Party Tonight
July 23rd, 2009 · 42 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, Education, Interviews, News and Events
OIB party today, 5:30 p.m. Taco Loco on Fairfield Avenue in Black Rock. First cocktail on OIB plus sweet eats. Come join us. Okay, a tame night at Testo’s Restaurant where the political payroll came through for Mayor Bill Finch’s choices for Board of Education, City Councilwoman Leticia Colon, disciple of 131st District Leader Mitch [...]
Tags: Auden Grogins·Bill Finch·Carmen Lopez·Dottie Guman·Leticia Colon·Mitch Robles·Pat Crossin·Testo's Restaurant·Tom Kelly·Tom McCarthy
The Annual School Fight
April 29th, 2009 · 40 Comments · City Council, Education, Interviews, News and Events
Two out of three Bridgeport classrooms are overcrowded. One out of three Bridgeport children enter kindergarten with no preschool experience. Bridgeport is the most underfunded school district in the state of Connecticut. These declarations were posted prominently Tuesday morning on the ballroom wall of the Holiday Inn for the Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition’s 2009 Breakfast [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Donna Brazile·Jim Himes
Scoop About The Poop: Timpanelli Visits Pol Pod
April 10th, 2009 · 30 Comments · Development and Zoning, Interviews
2:30 p.m. UPDATE Paul Timpanelli, chief executive of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, steps into the Pol Pod for an update about plans for a tri-community sewage treatment authority that would pipe effluent from the town of Monroe into Trumbull to be processed at the sewage treatment mothership in Bridgeport. Quick background: Shelton-based developer Robert Scinto [...]
Tags: Bob Scinto·Danny Roach·Matty's Corner·Paul Timpanelli·Sue Brannelly
Mayor And Murphy, Plus: Merrick In Pol Pod
November 24th, 2009 · 26 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Development and Zoning, Interviews, News and Events, State Politics
Mayor Bill Finch has provided additional details in the hiring of former Chief Administrative Officer Dennis Murphy on a consulting basis. Murphy will be paid $24,000 in what is expected to be a roughly six-month assignment to enhance management-labor relations. See Finch news release below: Mayor Finch Continues Efforts to Professionalize City Workforce (November 23, [...]
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Tags: Andy Nunn·Bill Finch·Chris Caruso·Chris Dodd·Gathering of the Vibes·John Fabrizi·Ken Hays·Larry Osborne·Linda McMahon·Merrick Alpert·Merriman River Group·Mike Garrett·Paul Timpanelli·Rob Simmons·Sam Caligiuri·Seaside Park·Tom Foley·University of Connecticut