Welcome home, Joe. Full disclosure: I was Joe Ganim’s campaign manager. Private sector clients paid me a nice buck because of my relationship with him. Joe wanted a piece of the action. I screwed up. Joe and I had a falling out in the fall of 1999 because I decided not to play ball anymore. I [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Matty’s Corner'
It’s So Joe, The Return Of Ganim, Plus: Mario’s Mission And It Ain’t Just Bread Ned
January 22nd, 2010 · 25 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, News and Events, State Politics
Tags: Bill Finch·Dan Malloy·Danny Roach·Housatonic Community College·Jasper McLevy·Jim Himes·Joe Ganim·Joe Lieberman·Joel Gonzalez·John Rowland·John Stafstrom·Mario Testa·Matty's Corner·Michelle Lyons·Ned Lamont·Paul Pinto·Quinnipiac University·Testo's Restaurant·University of Bridgeport
Scoop About The Poop: Timpanelli Visits Pol Pod
April 10th, 2009 · 30 Comments · Development and Zoning, Interviews
2:30 p.m. UPDATE Paul Timpanelli, chief executive of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, steps into the Pol Pod for an update about plans for a tri-community sewage treatment authority that would pipe effluent from the town of Monroe into Trumbull to be processed at the sewage treatment mothership in Bridgeport. Quick background: Shelton-based developer Robert Scinto [...]
Tags: Bob Scinto·Danny Roach·Matty's Corner·Paul Timpanelli·Sue Brannelly
Blackmail At Matty’s
March 14th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Cops, News and Events
I’ll tell ya how old I’m getting; I was a scribe covering the remedy order that U.S. District Court Judge T.F. Gilroy Daly issued in 1983 to resolve racial discrimination in the Bridgeport Police Department. Daly assigned a special master to oversee his order that created balance in assignments, promotions, dispute resolution, etc. Critics of [...]
Tags: Bob "Troll" Walsh·Ed Gomes·Jack McGregor·Joel Gonzalez·Keith Rodgerson·Marilyn Middlemass·Mary-Jane Foster·Matty's Corner·Pat Crossin·Ralph Mojica·Sly Salcedo·Sue Katz·The Gallery at Black Rock·Val Sorrentino·William "Ron" Bailey
Are You Feeling Lucky? Plus: Court Ruling Re Special Master
March 13th, 2009 · 19 Comments · Cops, Media, News and Events, State Politics
3:30 p.m. UPDATE: Friday the 13th, lucky day for me. How about you? Chris Dodd must feel like his mouth has been glued to a diesel exhaust with the motor running. The revved up media fumes just keep on coming. The latest, first reported by Hartford Courant columnist Kevin Rennie and fanned by the Wall [...]
Tags: Adam Wood·Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Bill Finch·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Bryan Norwood·Chris Dodd·Danny Roach·Denis O'Malley·Ed Adams·Ed Gomes·Épernay Bistro·Hartford Courant·Jack McGregor·Joe Gaudett·Joel Gonzalez·John Gilmore·John Stafstrom·Keith Rodgerson·Mary-Jane Foster·Matty's Corner·Michele Mount·Pat Crossin·Ralph Mojica·The Gallery at Black Rock·Wall Street Journal
Can We All Get Along?
March 11th, 2009 · 26 Comments · City Council, Education, News and Events, State Politics
So much going on I don’t know where to start. The battle of words between Mayor Bill Finch and Board of Education President Max Medina will not end any time soon; a legislative bill to regulate finances of Catholic churches is pulled as Bishop Lori rallies parishioners to the state capitol; Lisa Parziale’s meat hook; and oh yeah [...]
Tags: Andrew McDonald·Beardsley Park·Bill Finch·Bishop William Lori·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Chris Caruso·Joe Lieberman·Lisa "Honey" Parziale·Matty's Corner·Max Medina·Ned Lamont·Tom McCarthy
Rick Being Rick, When Mario Blew Up The Convention, Himes’ Bounty And Zoo Tickets!
May 14th, 2010 · 26 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Education, Library, News and Events, State Politics
Weekend Update: What? Former Bridgeport GOP Town Chair Rick Torres said something controversial at a forum for Fourth District Congressional candidates? No way. Rick wouldn’t say something controversial, would he? The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations criticized the statements by Torres, who said, referring to Muslims while discussing illegal immigration, “It turns [...]
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Tags: Dan Malloy·David Walker·Jim Himes·Joe Ganim·John DeStefano·John Rowland·Lowell Weicker·Mario Testa·Matty's Corner·Morgan Kaolian·Ned Lamont·Rick Torres·University of Bridgeport