Former City Councilman Joel “Speedy” Gonzalez shares video from Tuesday as the city cleans up Sandy’s mess.
Entries Tagged as 'Joel Gonzalez'
Finch Launches ‘Help Fight Blight’ Campaign–Effort To Shame Negligent Property Owners
October 15th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events
UPDATE: Three weeks from the Nov. 6 election and a ballot question that if approved by voters would give the mayor the power to appoint school board members, Bill Finch is kicking up his visibility throughout the city including an announcement today of a program designed “to shame property owners into cleaning up their properties [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Chris Rosario·CT Post·Joel Gonzalez·MariAn Gail Brown
City Takes Ownership Of Cleaned-up Maplewood Avenue Lot–Slated For Habitat For Humanity Housing
September 21st, 2012 · 10 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, Development and Zoning
Chris Rosario, the city’s director of Anti-Blight Neighborhood Revitalization, has kicked into overdrive shepherding a team of city departments working in earnest to clean up numerous city eyesores, the latest a garbage-marred lot at 848 Maplewood Avenue next to Bryant School near the location where a three-year-old girl was shot walking with her mother this [...]
Trashed-filled Lot On Maplewood Avenue Cleaned Up
September 19th, 2012 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events
It’s about time! Former City Councilman Joel “Speedy” Gonzalez (who provides narration) shares a video he took on Tuesday of workers cleaning an abandoned garbage-strewn lot at 848 Maplewood Avenue, adjacent to Bryant School, near the location where a three-year-old girl was shot walking with her mother this spring.
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The Partnership Of Blight And Crime–West Side Lot A Mess, Taxes And Penalties Owed
May 7th, 2012 · 12 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Cops
Blighted properties, such as the one shown here, are co-conspirators in a spike in crime. Former City Councilman Joel “Speedy” Gonzalez, who lives near this abandoned garbage-strewn lot at 848 Maplewood Avenue, brought this video to OIB’s attention. The lot is adjacent to Bryant School and near the location where a three-year-old girl was shot [...]
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March Madness Means Primaries–East Side Challenge Slate Qualifies
February 1st, 2012 · 19 Comments · City Politics
UPDATE: The Democratic Town Committee challenge slate in the 137th East Side District has qualified to oppose the slate led by City Councilwoman Lydia Martinez, according to Democratic Registrar of Voters Santa Ayala. And you thought March madness meant college hoops! Three district primaries for Democratic Town Committee seats could take place March 6th, assuming necessary [...]
Tags: Alberto "Tito" Ayala·Danny Roach·Gil Hernandez·Hector Diaz·Jim Fox·Joel Gonzalez·Lydia Martinez·Maria Valle·Mary-Jane Foster·Mitch Robles·Pat Crossin·Ralph Mojica·Robert Foley·Santa Ayala·Tom Mulligan·University of Bridgeport
How About Election Predictions?
November 5th, 2012 · 25 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Education, National Politics, News and Events, State Politics
The eve of the election is upon us, the majority of the work is finished: door knocking, phone calls, lawn signs, mail pieces, radio, television. Field operations are poised to hit the ground, final phone calls will flood districts. Rev. Al Sharpton, Governor Dannel Malloy and Mayor Bill Finch rallied Dems at Mount Aery Baptist [...]
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Tags: Al Sharpton·Bill Finch·Chris Murphy·Dan Malloy·Joe Lieberman·Joel Gonzalez·Linda McMahon