News release from Mayor Bill Finch: Today (Tuesday) at 1:00 p.m., Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch will be joining legislators–including Representative David Alexander (D-58)–and advocates in Hartford’s Legislative Office Building, urging members to pass legislation that would give adults who were adopted as children access to birth certificates that include the names of their birth parents. […]
Entries Tagged as 'Jodi Rell'
Finch Urges Passage Of Adoption Legislation
May 6th, 2014 · 3 Comments · News and Events
Tags: Bill Finch·Dan Malloy·Jodi Rell
Finch To Host Meeting About New Neighborhood Park
January 6th, 2014 · 3 Comments · News and Events
From Mayor Bill Finch: Mayor Bill Finch will host a community meeting at Hanson Exploration Station located inside Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo at 6 p.m., Thursday, January 9 to discuss plans for a new neighborhood park located at 115 Virginia Avenue in the Nob Hill neighborhood.
Tags: Beardsley Zoo·Bill Finch·Jodi Rell
Finch To Host Community Meeting For New Park Plan On Site Rell Had Proposed For A Jail
November 19th, 2013 · 13 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, News and Events
Remember that Virginia Avenue lot on the Upper East Side where former Governor Jodi Rell wanted to locate a juvenile detention center for girls four years ago? Then State Rep. Chris Caruso led the charge against it, including a candlelight vigil to derail the jail. Many other city officials followed Caruso’s lead, including Mayor Bill […]
Rell, Show Horse; Malloy, Work Horse–A Study In Contrasts
November 21st, 2012 · 10 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Cops, Development and Zoning
When she was governor, Jodi Rell’s idea of economic development for the state’s largest city was a prison on the Upper East Side. Such vision. Angry city residents led by then State Rep. Chris Caruso defeated the measure with protests, vigils, news conferences and a reasoned declaration that Bridgeport already has enough of that sort […]
Tags: Beardsley Park·Beardsley Zoo·Chris Caruso·CT Post·Dan Malloy·Housatonic Community College·Jodi Rell·John Rowland·Lowell Weicker·Michael Fedele
Pelto Claims Vallas Locking In No-Bid Contracts
June 17th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education
Government watchdog Jonathan Pelto continues to question the veracity of school chief Paul Vallas from his perch www.jonathanpelto.com. Faced with a 1.5 percent school budget deficit this year, Bridgeport’s Mayor Bill Finch traded the democratic rights of his constituents for a $3.4 million “loan” from Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy’s education commissioner. Meanwhile, few are even […]
Tags: Bill Finch·Jodi Rell·Jonathan Pelto·Paul Vallas·Stefan Pryor
Tracking Malloy’s Financial Commitment To Bridgeport, The Money Allocation Database
July 7th, 2014 · 12 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, News and Events, State Politics
What’s Governor Dan Malloy’s commitment to Bridgeport compared to other municipalities? An OIB post last week, Malloy’s Bridgeport problem, covered the state’s failed two-year recruitment of the world’s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates. It triggered debate about Malloy’s devotion to Connecticut’s most populous city. Malloy critics maintain the recruitment of Bridgewater to Stamford that cost […]
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