From the Bridgeport Public Library: Tuesday, February 28th at 6:30 PM, The Black Rock Branch Library, 2705 Fairfield Avenue presents an: Informational Jobs forum with State Representative Auden Grogins. Attention! If you are a small business owner, entrepreneur, nonprofit organization, person looking for work, or person considering a career change.
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Grogins To Host Jobs Forum
February 22nd, 2012 · No Comments · Library, News and Events
Tags: Auden Grogins
Andres Ayala Files Exploratory Committee–Will He Take The State Senate Plunge?
February 21st, 2012 · 5 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events, State Politics
State Rep. Andres Ayala has filed paperwork for an exploratory committee that sets him up for a possible run for Connecticut’s 23rd State Senate seat. The State Elections Enforcement Commission’s candidate committee list shows Ayala has filed the exploratory paperwork with Pilar Gonzalez as treasurer of the committee. Former State Senator Ernie Newton has already declared his candidacy [...]
Tags: Alberto "Tito" Ayala·Andres Ayala·Anthony Musto·Ed Gomes·Ernie Newton·John Fabrizi·Mary-Jane Foster
Salcedo Back From Mexico To Highlight Failed Drug War, ‘Interesting And Bizarre’
February 20th, 2012 · 4 Comments · News and Events, State Politics
Drug reform crusader and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Sylvester Salcedo is back from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, scene of recent drug cartel violence, where he traveled to highlight “America’s 40-year drug war which has had a devastating effect at home and abroad.”
Tags: Sly Salcedo
CT Post: PAC Probe Hasn’t Gone Far Enough
February 19th, 2012 · 13 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events
The Editorial Board of the Connecticut Post, in its Sunday edition, writes that the State Elections Enforcement Commission didn’t go far enough when it fined Mayor Bill Finch’s friend attorney William Beccaro $5,000 for irregularities fronting a political action committee that received $46,000 from the mayor’s 2007 mayoral campaign and then rewired the money to finance [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·Ken Dixon·Mary-Jane Foster·Tom Kelly·William Beccaro
60 Minutes Highlights The Stigma Of Unemployment
February 18th, 2012 · 3 Comments · News and Events
The WorkPlace is a workforce development program created by the state with several offices including a service provider in downtown Bridgeport at 350 Fairfield Avenue. Part of the organization’s mission is Empowering those who face barriers to employment. And that appears to be the focus of a 60 Minutes profile on Sunday, according to its [...]
Tags: Joe Carbone
Newton Faces House On Sunday
February 18th, 2012 · 18 Comments · City Politics, News and Events
From Dennis House, host of Face the State, Sunday on Channel 3. Disgraced former State Senator Ernest Newton is seeking his old job back two years after finishing a prison term for corruption. In his first extended television interview since announcing his candidacy, the Bridgeport Democrat laid the foundation of his political comeback.
Tags: Don Williams·Ed Gomes·Ernie Newton·Mario Testa·Nancy DiNardo
Supremes Must Get Off Their Robes And Make A Decision–Finch Urges School Choice In Legislative Testimony
February 22nd, 2012 · 5 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, News and Events
Mayor Bill Finch on Tuesday testified before the General Assembly’s Education Committee in support of Governor Dannel Malloy’s proposed education initiatives for the current legislative session. In his speech the mayor extolled school choice. “We must allow parents to decide which is the best school for their children.” The mayor has urged the Charter Revision Commission [...]
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Tags: Bill Finch·Paul Vallas