Addressing the City Council Monday night, former State Senator Ernie Newton declared “White privilege means you can commit crimes but held at a different standard.” The pronouncement drew a combination of gasps and cheers from the crowd in the City Council chambers. Newton claimed he had been harmed by bidding process disclosures regarding his particular […]
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Newton Dumped From Running City Dump, Misses Mark On Application Box
June 9th, 2016 · 39 Comments · City Council, City Politics, Development and Zoning, News and Events
City Government Tries To Do More With Less
May 8th, 2016 · 40 Comments · City Budget, News and Events
From Mike Mayko and Brian Lockhart, CT Post: Ganim has also offered an early retirement incentive–a year of health care and $15,000 cash–to try and weed out more employees. So far, more than 40 city workers have applied. Still, Ganim has also been criticized for finding jobs for some of his campaign loyalists …
Tags: Brian Lockhart·CT Post·Joe Ganim·John Ricci·Mike Mayko
The Race For Tuesday’s Cricket Vote
February 29th, 2016 · 3 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
By the time polls close Tuesday at 8 p.m. for Democratic Town Committee primaries in three districts, about 700 electors will have cast votes by absentee ballot which could ensure that more votes will be cast that way in some precincts than actual electors showing up to the polls. That noise you just heard in […]
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Town Committee Wars–The I, Me, Mine Of Politics (Absentee Ballots Too)
February 24th, 2016 · 7 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
More than 1,000 absentee ballots have been mailed by elections officials in three of 10 Democratic Town Committee districts competing in Tuesday’s primary with 27 seats up for grabs. This is as retail as retail can get when it comes to identifying voters and dragging them out. In these low-turnout primaries that may not hit 10 […]
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Maria Pereira Dances For Seniors And Votes In Dem Party Squabble, Wanna Cut In?
February 19th, 2016 · 26 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
Who says Board of Education member Maria Pereira doesn’t have a sense of humor? Wednesday night the self-proclaimed piranha of city politics led her Democratic Town Committee slate in a prance with a belly dancer at an event schmoozing senior citizen voters at Augustana Homes, a key battleground for votes in the 138th District that […]
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Sikorsky Airport Suffers Another Leadership Death
February 8th, 2016 · 20 Comments · Analysis and Comment, News and Events
Forced out as airport manager a few years ago by then-Mayor Bill Finch, Public Facilities Director John Ricci must now pay more attention to the municipally owned Sikorsky Memorial Airport in the short term following the death of operations superintendent Steve Ford who suffered injuries from a fall over the weekend at his home in Shelton. […]
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Political Slates Set For March 1 Dem Primaries
February 8th, 2016 · 13 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, News and Events
And the battle is officially on. Three of ten Democratic Town Committee Districts will face off in March 1 primaries covering the West Side, East Side and Upper East Side that will feature three slates, according to elections officials. Absentee ballots, key in these low-turnout party wars, will be available this week. The top vote […]
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Should The Airport Be Sold?
June 12th, 2016 · 26 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, Development and Zoning, News and Events
Sikorsky Memorial Airport is owned by the city but located in the Lordship section of Stratford where neighborhood residents aren’t exactly flying high about a modern aviation hub. Expansion opposition from Stratford, runway issues and decades of inaction all contribute to the airport’s financial drain on the city. About 25 years ago then-Governor Lowell Weicker […]
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