A look at April 2017: Joined by community supporters and even her husband Superior Court Judge Dale Radcliffe, retired Superior Court Judge Carmen Lopez leveraged her savvy legal skills during a City Hall meeting, filleting the city’s rollout of modern parking meters without visible signage of the consequences for failing to execute a transaction within […]
Entries Tagged as 'Betty Pfriem'
Walker: We Have Decided To Fight Than Flee
December 9th, 2017 · 27 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events, State Politics
Shortly after he came up short in a Republican primary for lieutenant governor in 2014, Bridgeport resident David Walker declared if Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley’s bid failed he’d leave Connecticut. Foley lost. The former U.S. comptroller general, a candidate for governor, has had a change of heart.
Tags: Betty Pfriem·Chris Shays·CT Post·David Carson·David Walker·Jim Himes·John McKinney·Ken Dixon·Mark Boughton·Mark Lauretti·Tim Herbst·Tom Foley
Assessing Ringmasters, Ringleaders
August 29th, 2017 · 53 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events, State Politics
For 70 years it’s been a gentlemen’s club, save for one insurgent Elizabeth “Betty” Pfriem (class of 1986), the late publisher of the Bridgeport Post and Telegram, but the annual announcement of the Barnum Festival ringmaster still brings out the old timers, business leaders, government influencers and politically ambitious. The other day at the introduction […]
Tags: Betty Pfriem·CT Post·Dan Malloy·Joe Ganim·Mark Lauretti·Michael Daly·Tim Herbst
Services Set For Elizabeth Pfriem
April 6th, 2017 · 1 Comment · News and Events
Funeral services for community philanthropist Elizabeth “Betty” Pfriem, former publisher of the Bridgeport Post-Telegram newspapers, will take place Saturday, 11 a.m. in the United Congregational Church, 877 Park Avenue, Bridgeport.
Tags: Betty Pfriem·CT Post
Foster Pledges To Post Campaign Finance Report On Website
July 13th, 2015 · 23 Comments · City Politics, News and Events
UPDATE: Her report is up now, here. If you ask short-handed staff in the Town Clerk’s Office to make copies of campaign finance reports of the candidates for mayor, it will cost you more than $500. Democratic mayoral candidate Mary-Jane Foster says she will post her report on her campaign website “for the whole world […]
Tags: Betty Pfriem·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Chris Shays·Ed Gomes·Marilyn Moore·Mary-Jane Foster·Max Medina·Nick Panuzio
Lacking Political Beacon, Walker House Up For Sale Again
June 14th, 2018 · 5 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events, State Politics
Four years ago after losing a Republican primary for lieutenant governor, David Walker placed his waterfront Black Rock home for sale for $1,675,000. If an offer came it was not good enough for him to accept it. The Beacon Street house is now up for sale again, this time after Walker fell short of the […]
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Tags: Betty Pfriem·Chris Shays·CT Post·Dan Malloy·David Carson·David Walker·Jim Himes·Tom Foley