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Entries Tagged as 'Jodi Rell'

Election Commissioners Have Cold Feet

January 18th, 2012 · 2 Comments · News and Events, State Politics

Always a curious choice when a professional pol is appointed to head enforcement of election law. Will he protect pals? Pursue foes? Here’s the latest from Mark Pazniokas of the Connecticut Mirror on the proposed selection of former Middletown Mayor Sebastian Giuliano to serve as the new executive director of the state agency that has taken action, [...]

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Time For 2012 Prognostication

December 30th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, Development and Zoning, Education, National Politics, News and Events, State Politics

Okay OIB friends, what’s in your crystal ball for 2012? Are we really living in Zombie Land, as ex-City Councilman big Mojo Ralph Mojica suggests? Or as Mojo calls it, Year of the Rubber Stamp? Or is the state’s largest city poised for better times? Let’s hope so.

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Newton Versus Gomes: The Politics Of State Senate District Changes

December 26th, 2011 · 28 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics

While the State Supreme Court sorts out the reconfiguration of Connecticut’s five congressional districts, required every 10 years to reflect population shifts, the redistricting panel that managed to agree on map changes to the 2012 state legislative districts has angered some African American activist and political leaders including former State Senator Ernie Newton even though Newton could benefit from the city’s redistricting [...]

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Solution For Rail Commuters, Park In Bridgeport

October 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning

Take the Bridgeport train. Rent a place downtown. From Shelly Banjo, Wall Street Journal: FAIRFIELD, Conn.—In the Metro-North parking lots along Connecticut’s Gold Coast, the haves and the have-nots aren’t defined by their clothes, car or even their net worth. Here, it’s about whether they have a flimsy green piece of paper visible on their [...]

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Foster Fillets Finch’s Flip Flops

February 14th, 2011 · 28 Comments · City Politics, Development and Zoning, News and Events

In 2009, before State Rep. Chris Caruso screamed holy hell, before neighbors from the Upper East Side blew a cork, before rallies and vigils and protests made it clear that Governor Jodi’s Rell’s proposal for a juvenile detention center for girls was unacceptable, Mayor Bill Finch had made it clear he was all for building [...]

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Forget The Snow, Here Comes The Absentee Ballot Blizzard

February 1st, 2011 · 21 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics

What snowdrifts? Watch out for the drifting absentee ballots. Can you imagine if we have a day like today in three weeks? Feb. 22 is the special election to fill the state rep seat vacated by Chris Caruso who’s working for the Malloy administration. Connecticut’s 126th State Assembly District includes portions of the North End and [...]

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The Debate: Where To House Former Offenders? P&Z Delays Decision

January 31st, 2011 · 58 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, News and Events

The Planning and Zoning Commission Monday night delayed decision on an application to extend a special permit to allow the establishment of a 120-bed halfway house for former male offenders by Community Solutions, Inc. www.csi-online.org/. The location is at Norman and Railroad Avenue, and numerous residents in the West End and South End have expressed opposition. Former offenders [...]

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