The suburbs send Bridgeport their garbage, sewage, sick and homeless. Sometimes there’s a quantified charge for those services. Sometimes not. Suburban students also attend regional magnet schools located in the city. Stratford’s Board of Education has hired legal firebrand Norm Pattis, who’s been involved in Bridgeport legal fights for years, to challenge Bridgeport’s magnet school […]
Entries Tagged as 'John Burgeson'
Is Bridgeport Scalping The ‘Burbs Over Education Tuition, Or Charging Fair Share?
December 30th, 2016 · 64 Comments · Education, News and Events
Faiths Come Together With Sale Of Treasured Church
December 6th, 2016 · 3 Comments · News and Events
From John Burgeson, CT Post: The Bridgeport Islamic Community Center, in a $1 million sale, will become the new owner of one of the most storied churches in the city on May 1.
Tags: CT Post·John Burgeson
First-In-Flight Debate On Cable Show
January 6th, 2015 · 2 Comments · News and Events
Connecticut Post reporter John Burgeson is scheduled to appear tonight at 8 on the Bridgeport Now cable access show co-hosted by Robert Foley in a discussion about the bill before the Ohio state legislature that rejects Bridgeport’s Gustave Whitehead as first in flight. The show can be viewed on channel 88 Cablevision or soundviewtv.org.
What, City Coverage? Ink Transfusion At The Connecticut Post
July 18th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Media
Does it appear to you the Connecticut Post has stepped up its coverage of the state’s largest city? The Post’s inch line devotion to Bridgeport had appeared so naked in recent years you could drop a thong across its coverage. Seems lately we’re getting more than a sneak peek.
Tags: Brian Lockhart·CT Post·Hearst Corporation·John Burgeson·Keila Torres Ocasio·Ken Dixon·Linda Conner Lambeck·Mike Mayko·Tim Loh·Tom Baden
Is The Connecticut Post Reviving Bridgeport Coverage?
January 17th, 2012 · 18 Comments · Analysis and Comment
In the hardcopy edition of Sunday’s Connecticut Post two stories above the fold featuring the state’s largest city screamed nearly the entire front page: “Bridgeport in shock,” a story about residents mourning the shooting death of 14-year-old Justin Thompson and “Can city workers win city contracts?” referencing the investigation of the city’s construction management and Minority Business Enterprise programs that […]
Tags: Auden Grogins·Bob Keeley·CT Post·Dan Malloy·Hartford Courant·Hearst Corporation·John Burgeson·Keila Torres Ocasio·Ken Dixon·Mike Mayko·Tim Loh·Tom Baden
Pay Raise Proposal Goes To Full City Council
December 29th, 2011 · 21 Comments · City Council, News and Events
John Burgeson, CT Post: A skeptical City Council Ordinance Committee Wednesday night agreed to send a measure, requested by Mayor Bill Finch, onto the full City Council that, if passed, would make it easier for the mayor to grant pay hikes by as much as 15 percent to his appointed staff. Read more here.
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·John Burgeson
Wrighting A Wrong–Finally, First-In-Flight Recognition For Whitehead
March 12th, 2013 · 8 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Best of Bridgeport
A vast body of evidence shows in 1901 Bridgeport resident Gustave Whitehead flew two years before the Wright brothers. Slowly, Whitehead is finally receiving the credit he deserves. Part of the problem was the slimy deal the Smithsonian cut with the Wright brothers.
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Tags: CT Post·Discovery Museum·Gustave Whitehead·John Burgeson·Rob Foley