As a candidate for mayor in 1991, Joe Ganim promised to clean up the mountainous demolition-debris disgrace Mount Trashmore in the East End that wreaked
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Tag: Ernie Newton
OIB 20-Year Anniversary Story – The Urine-Test Challenge Between Pereira And Newton Goes National
Readers were both fascinated and speechless. National news outlets sprayed it across the globe – Washington Post, CNN, FOX News. In April, 2019 it became
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Historic? City Council Fails To Pick A President, Ganim Quickly Adjourns Meeting
In what could be a first, the City Council Monday night at its organizational meeting failed to muster 11 votes to elect a council president,
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Nieves Beats Back The Unholy Alliance – Will It Thwart Her City Council Presidency?
While they hash out the mess in Washington to reopen the federal government, the political machinations to determine the next City Council president is blistering
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Banking On The East End, M&T Bank Opens Branch In Financial Desert – How It Happened
May 2022, I received an email from Maya Dillon, then director of corporate communications for M&T Bank that had purchased People’s United Bank, Bridgeport’s ultimate
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Newton: I Guarantee State And Feds Looking Into Pereira’s ABs
City Council members Ernie Newton and Maria Pereira have had quite the history, including challenging each other to urine tests on OIB years ago. Once
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Watch: Finally! After Decades, Hazardous Sidewalk Being Repaired
The thing about City Councilwoman Eneida Martinez, she’s not into threading needles. She gets right to the point. Get in her face and she pushes
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The Personality Dichotomy For Tuesday’s Democratic State Senate Vote; Gaston And Newton – New Guard, Old Guard
State Senator Herron Gaston and City Councilman Ernie Newton are not exactly buds in this battle of new guard versus old. Twenty years ago Newton
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