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Entries Tagged as 'Angel DePara'

The Punishment Barr

June 21st, 2010 · 6 Comments · City Council

I say proper punishment is locking up Evette Brantley and Cecil Young  in a room and forcing them to listen to Roseanne Barr singing the National Anthem. From Keila Torres, Connecticut Post:
Cecil Young has been issued an infraction for “creating a public disturbance” at the City Council meeting on May 17. As you are all [...]

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City Council Fight! Plus: The Times Smokes Out Blumenthal’s Baloney, Dick Regrets, No Specific Apology, Story Fed By McMahon

May 17th, 2010 · 43 Comments · City Council, State Politics

Update, Blumenthal video: Just when you thought it was safe to attend a City Council meeting a fight broke out Monday night. Former City Council President Tom Mulligan didn’t dub the meetings the Monday Night Fights for nothing. Here’s the short version from witnesses in council chambers:

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The Best Rumors, The Best Deals, Come One, Come All, Plus: The Disappearing Ink Campaign

April 12th, 2010 · 10 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Media, Political Analysis, State Politics

Grab your scorecards and truth serum.
Tonight in Hartford the Connecticut Convention Center transforms into a political gossip factory for the annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey moolah grab where 1400 great and near-great party regulars hold court about all things political, including the state convention next month.
What’s going on with SuBy? Who will end up as lieutenant governor running mates for guber leaders Ned [...]

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Budget Impact On Finch’s Reelection, Himes’ Ear-Splitting Constituents

March 29th, 2010 · 19 Comments · City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Cops, Library, Political Analysis

One week away until Mayor Bill Finch submits his recommended spending plan to the City Council for the budget year that begins July 1. That’s when City Council Budget Co-Chairs Bob Curwen and Angel DePara get a crack at it before it goes to the full council.
The budget will include more dough for city libraries per a [...]

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East Side AB-racadabra, Plus: Merrick’s Time To Bloom

March 1st, 2010 · 19 Comments · City Council, City Politics, State Politics

Get ready for Tuesday’s tussle.
You know what they say about East Side politics? I went to a Democratic town committee meeting there the other day and a hockey game broke out. Well, the East Side is known for high sticking, body checks and oh baby, absentee ballots. Do you believe in magic? A couple of hundred absentee [...]

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Dodd’s Dough, Kohut’s Calling, Linda’s Lion, Musto’s Magic, Meet Malloy

January 18th, 2010 · 25 Comments · Development, Events, State Politics

Chris Dodd has at least two million clams left in the campaign account of his U.S. Senate seat for which he’ll not seek reelection.
What to do with it? Give it back to those jolly corporations that plied him with dough through the decades? Nah. Give it to candidates? Possibly. Give it to charity? Could be. Hey, I [...]

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A Ferry Good Debate, Plus: Himes, Finch Announce Bridge Bucks

December 14th, 2009 · 20 Comments · City Council, Development

Afternoon Update: Where do you want your ship to come in?
East End City Council members Jim Holloway and Andre Baker want to relocate the Bridgeport Port Jefferson Steamboat Company to a new ferry terminal in their neighborhood. That would be a nice addition to the East End, no? But at what cost to downtown?
Holloway and Baker submitted [...]

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