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		<title>City Asks Feds To Review Minority Contract Violations&#8211;Crumbie Law Group Assumes Local Lead Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Harris and Robyn Stephanie Waul-Blake, city employees at the center of a local police investigation, were fired by the city last week for their role in allegedly receiving nearly $400k in subcontract work on city projects involving minority business contracts. This investigation has taken on a new twist as a law firm hired by the city takes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Andres Ayala Run For State Senate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t heard it from the horse&#8217;s mouth, but several pols tell OIB State Rep. Andres Ayala, leader of the city&#8217;s State House delegation, is telling them he&#8217;s running for the State Senate seat occupied by Ed Gomes and formerly held by Ernie Newton who announced officially on Saturday he&#8217;s a candidate for his old job. Ayala, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music, Inventions, Films And Art Exhibits Featured In City&#8217;s Black History Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Mayor Finch: Mayor Bill Finch will kick off the City&#8217;s observance of Black History Month today (Thursday, February 2) at 6 p.m. at City Hall Annex with &#8220;The History of Soul Food,&#8221; a presentation by Chef Pierre-Andre Desruisseaux of Metric Bar &#38; Grill in Downtown Bridgeport, who will explain the history and meaning of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step Up Reformers! Public Hearing On Charter Tonight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speak up now or forever hold your &#8230; whatever. The Bridgeport Charter Revision Commission empaneled by Mayor Bill Finch will conduct a public hearing tonight at 5:30 in City Council Chambers, 45 Lyon Terrace. Members of the public who intend to testify must sign the speakers list upon arrival at the public hearing, according to the mayor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John $taf$trom&#8217;s UConn Coup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Democratic Town Chair John Stafstrom is a happy man today. Who could blame him? The attorney for Bridgeport-based Pullman &#38; Comley structured the agreement that eventually led to the approval Monday by the State Bond Commission of $291 million for Maine-based Jackson Laboratory to construct a new building and create upwards of 300 bioscience jobs at the University of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grease Recycling Facility Opens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congressman Jim Himes joined Mayor Bill Finch this afternoon to celebrate the opening of Bridgeport Biodiesel, the first new business in the Eco-Industrial Park, 146 Andover Street in the West End. The facility is permitted to manufacture 1 million gallons of biodiesel per year from yellow kitchen grease, according to the congressman. Read more here.]]></description>
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		<title>State Launches Arts Initiative For Cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LennieGrimaldi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bridgeport Arts + Cultural Council: Governor Dannel Malloy hosted Mayor Bill Finch and mayors from some of Connecticut&#8217;s largest cities at the Governor&#8217;s Residence Monday night January 23, 2012 to participate in the launch of a new $1 million arts initiative, &#8220;City Canvases.&#8221; This new program, which is a project of the Department [...]]]></description>
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