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Entries Tagged as 'Anthony Musto'

Lots Of Gas From State Budget Crash, Plus: The Ministers Of Defense

March 15th, 2010 · 19 Comments · City Budget, City Council, Library

This is one of my favorite weeks. St. Patrick’s Day Wednesday and St. Joseph’s Day Friday, and then the first day of spring.
While St. Patrick dealt with snakes (wouldn’t he do well in politics?), St. Joseph is the patron saint of Sicily where my father was born. Sicilians prayed to the spouse of Mary to end [...]

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Musto Dodges Bullet, Plus: P.T. Fire Report

March 12th, 2010 · 48 Comments · Development, Education, Political Analysis

Saturday Update: I’m thinking the pol who dodged a bullet this week more than any other–following Jodi’s Jail reversal–is State Senator Anthony Musto.
Anthony was flapping his wings, eager to kick out a press release when Governor Jodi Rell announced a $20 million juvenile detention center for girls in Anthony’s district on the Upper East Side. Anthony [...]

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Bridge Over River Pequonnock, And Haywire Harkins

March 8th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Development, State Politics

Mayor Bill Finch and Congressman Jim Himes were joined today by a bunch of local officials at Knowlton Street and Crescent Avenue as demolition begins on the hulking upright leaves of the Congress Street Bridge.
This is a nice public relations hit for the mayor and congressman. The bridge represented a flashpoint in the 2008 congressional campaign when [...]

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Jodi Treats Elephants Like Donkeys

March 4th, 2010 · 10 Comments · Events, State Politics

Debates, debates, debates. Lots of them on the horizon for a variety of offices in this gargantuan election year.

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Will Moore Be More? Plus: Stipend Relief, And Malloy Spanks Ned On Sick Leave

February 8th, 2010 · 18 Comments · City Council, City Politics, Civil Service, State Politics

Update: Marilyn Moore is a pistol. A pol with passion. And I say pol in the best sense of the word (some pols don’t like being called pols), a bright feisty force you want on your side in a fight.

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Marian Evans Out As Health Director, The Political Fallout? Plus: Jodi’s Jail Update, Is Hamden Now Possible?

February 5th, 2010 · 69 Comments · Development

Update: Dr. Marian Evans has spent her final day as city health director.
An email sent from the mayor’s office to Health Department employees explained that Friday was her final day. She’ll be replaced in the short term by William Quinn, recently retired after 21 years as New Haven’s director of health. Meanwhile a search for [...]

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Jepsen: Bysiewicz Dancing Like Ginger Rogers

February 5th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Interviews, National Politics, State Politics

So, do ya wanna dance? With Ginger Rogers? Or Maybe Susan Bysiewicz?
George Jepsen, the leading Democratic challenger to Connecticut Secretary of  the State Susan Bysiewicz to replace Dick Blumenthal as attorney general, says SuBy’s doing a tap as she tries to make the case that she meets the legal definition, 10 years active practice as a lawyer, to [...]

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