Mayor Bill Finch is poised on Tuesday to make Bridgeport history, albeit recent history, as the first to win consecutive four-year terms for mayor. In 1998 voters approved a charter referendum four-year term for mayor, city clerk and town clerk. Joe Ganim, the first to win a four-year term for mayor in 1999, was forced [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Sam Tedesco'
67,689 Registered Voters–How Many Will Show Up?
November 7th, 2011 · 66 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics
Tags: Bill Finch·Chris Caruso·Jasper McLevy·Jeff Kohut·Joe Ganim·Mary-Jane Foster·Rick Torres·Sam Tedesco·Santa Ayala
Len Mainiero Brought Banking Close To Home
July 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · News and Events
Leonard Mainiero wasn’t a banker from Bridgeport. He was a Bridgeport banker. He spent a professional lifetime bringing banking closer to home, visiting city neighborhoods to encourage banking opportunities for African Americans and Latinos. It was good for business. It was good for the community. Mainiero passed away a few days ago. He was 82. [...]
Tags: Harding High School·Jasper McLevy·Lenny Paoletta·Nick Panuzio·Sam Hawley·Sam Tedesco·University of Connecticut
Happy Birthday Phineas—Who’s Your Favorite Mayor? (Or Not)
July 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments · City Politics
Phineas Taylor Barnum was born on this day 200 years ago in Bethel, Connecticut. Bridgeport became his adopted city. Barnum’s brother, who ran a Bridgeport hotel, introduced him to little Charles Stratton and P.T. would parade him as Tom Thumb. Barnum loved Bridgeport and showered it with all kinds of stuff. Seaside Park, Victorian housing, spearhead for industrial [...]
Tags: Bill Finch·Hugh Curran·Jasper McLevy·Joe Ganim·John Fabrizi·John Mandanici·Lenny Paoletta·Mary Moran·Nick Panuzio·Sam Tedesco·Seaside Park·Tom Bucci
Lamont’s Launch, Plus: What To Do With Sal’s Property? And Governors From Bridgeport
February 16th, 2010 · 29 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, News and Events, State Politics
Update: Ned Lamont officially declared his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination today. From the Lamont campaign:
Tags: Andy Fardy·Chris Shays·Dan Malloy·Dick Blumenthal·Donald Trump·General Electric·Hartford Courant·Jasper McLevy·Merrick Alpert·Ned Lamont·Sal DiNardo·Sam Tedesco·Steve Wynn
What’s Joe Ganim’s Future? Pooch Power And Library News
October 1st, 2009 · 38 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Library
When I heard many months ago that Joe Ganim had slipped into a federal Bureau of Prisons substance abuse program to shave time off his sentence I coughed up a chuckle. Gee, could the former mayor have rationalized all that high-end wine I bought for him in the 1990s led him to tipping a little too freely? So much [...]
Tags: Auden Grogins·Bill Finch·Bob "Troll" Walsh·Hugh Curran·Jodi Rell·Joe Ganim·John Fabrizi·John Mandanici·John Rowland·Lenny Paoletta·Mario Testa·Mary Moran·Nick Panuzio·Paul Pinto·Sam Tedesco·Tom Bucci
How’s Finch Doing After 18 Months? Plus: Brownfield Bucks
May 15th, 2009 · 31 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Politics, Civil Service, Cops, Development and Zoning, Education
Mayor Bill Finch has just about reached his first 18 months in office. Where did the time go? Former Mayor John Fabrizi would love to fast forward to 2011, the next mayoral cycle, to regain his job. But can he? That raises another question: what kind of shape is Finch in? Much better than a year ago when [...]
Tags: Beardsley Park·Beardsley Zoo·Bill Finch·Carlos Silva·Charlie Tisdale·Chris Caruso·David Dunn·Housatonic Community College·Hugh Curran·Jasper McLevy·Joe Ganim·John Fabrizi·John Mandanici·John Stafstrom·Lenny Paoletta·Lowell Weicker·Margaret Morton·Mary Moran·Nick Panuzio·Paul Pinto·Sal DePiano·Sam Tedesco·Steelpointe Harbor·Tom Bucci·Tom McCarthy·Tom Mulligan·University of Bridgeport
Finch Marks Five Years As Mayor–How’s He Doing?
November 24th, 2012 · 20 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, Cops, Development and Zoning, Education
Can you believe it? Bill Finch has been mayor of the state’s most populous city for five years. He won a close Democratic primary over Chris Caruso in September 2007 then easily won the general election in November 2007. He was tested again in a primary in 2011 by University of Bridgeport Vice President Mary-Jane [...]
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