OIB correspondent John Gilmore, who served as political reporter for the Bridgeport Post, predecessor of the Connecticut Post, shares this insight about the genesis of publishing a list of the city’s top wage earners. Oh yes, the annual Top Wage Earner story! It’s one of the best-read stories in the newspaper. Just from a historical [...]
Entries Tagged as 'John Gilmore'
The Top 100 Wage Earners, A Political And Journalistic Legacy
March 22nd, 2013 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment
Tags: CT Post·John Gilmore·John Mandanici·Lenny Paoletta·Michael Daly
The Dean Of Storytellers: New York Saves A Bridgeport Tradition
March 14th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Best of Bridgeport
OIB friend John Gilmore, former political reporter for The Bridgeport Post, predecessor to the Connecticut Post, shares his annual St. Patrick’s Day story. The big man spends his time these days as a marketing consultant for lawyers and writing detective novels. The St. Patrick’s Scholarship Dinner prides itself on being the least demanding charity in [...]
Tags: CT Post·John Gilmore
Four Weeks Until Election Day, McMahon-Murphy Debate–Voters: “What’s In It For Me?”
October 8th, 2012 · 14 Comments · Analysis and Comment, National Politics, News and Events, State Politics
With four weeks left until Election Day, campaigns have officially hit the homestretch. Political operatives for Republican Linda McMahon and Democrat Chris Murphy continue to carpet bomb their respective U.S. Senate opposition with television and radio spots, scorched-earth news releases and statements, charges and countercharges, flame-throwing allegations. It’s almost like they’ve received blood transfusions from [...]
Tags: Chris Murphy·Dick Blumenthal·John Gilmore·Linda McMahon
Callahan On The Newton, Gomes, Ayala Senate Race: ‘Raw Chicken Into A Pond Full Of Alligators’
July 13th, 2012 · 18 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics
Veteran Bridgeport political analyst Jim Callahan is back on the scene helping OIB cover the most watched State Senate race in the state: the Aug. 14 Democratic primary battle between incumbent Ed Gomes, party-endorsed Ernie Newton and State Rep. Andres Ayala. In his days working for the predecessor of the Connecticut Post, Callahan along with OIB friend [...]
Tags: Andres Ayala·Bill Finch·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Chris Caruso·Ed Gomes·Ernie Newton·Jim Callahan·John Gilmore·Mary-Jane Foster
John Gilmore At Rainy Faye Bookstore
May 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment · News and Events
OIB friend John Gilmore will appear for a reading and signing of his book Cocaineros Duel May 21, 3 to 5 p.m. at Rainy Faye Bookstore corner of John and Broad Street downtown. Check it out:
When Margaret Morton Told The Party Plantation Owners To Stick It
February 4th, 2011 · 80 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics
When I listen to these self-styled party plantation owners–white, black and brown–claim they control all the votes and no one can break through their slave maze of locked-in votes, one of the first persons to come to mind is Margaret Morton, a transformational figure in city politics. It was 1980, and genial State Senator Salvatore [...]
Tags: Alvin Penn·Auden Grogins·Bob Keeley·Charlie Tisdale·Dan Malloy·Ed Gomes·Ernie Newton·Jim Callahan·John Fabrizi·John Gilmore·John Mandanici·Margaret Morton·Mario Testa·Ned Lamont·Paul Ganim·Sal DePiano
Gilmore Remembers L’Ambiance Collapse
April 23rd, 2013 · 4 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Media, News and Events
On April 23, 1987, one of the worst construction accidents occurred on Washington Avenue just off the Route 25-8 Connector Downtown. OIB correspondent John Gilmore reflects on that day when he was a scribe for the Bridgeport Post, predecessor of the Connecticut Post. On April 23, 1987 I was in Boston attending an awards ceremony [...]
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