Early 2013 looks like it’s shaping up as a long strange trip for the state’s largest city. A screwy budget cycle, a Democratic governor acting like he’s received a blood transfusion from a Republican–cut this, slash that, whack the cities–is causing much trepidation among city bean counters. To some degree Governor Dan Malloy’s austerity program [...]
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Will Citizens Working For A Better Bridgeport Have Staying Power?
March 13th, 2013 · 18 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, City Politics, Library, News and Events, State Politics
Tags: Angel Reyes·Auden Grogins·Bill Finch·Citizens Working for a Better Bridgeport·Dan Malloy·David Walker·Jack Hennessy·Marilyn Moore·Mary-Jane Foster·Rick Torres·Tom White
Spineless Pols Take Note! New Citizen Action Group Organzing Public Forum In Support of Hennessy Government Reform Bill
March 8th, 2013 · 44 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, City Politics, Library, News and Events, State Politics
What pol will grow a spine? What political chickens will run for the hen house? The newly formed neighborhood action group Citizens Working for a Better Bridgeport will host a public forum March 16, 2 p.m. at the Bridgeport Public Library on the long-shot legislative bill advanced by State Rep. Jack Hennessy that proposes to [...]
Tags: Andres Ayala·Angel Reyes·Anthony Musto·Auden Grogins·Charlie Stallworth·Christina Ayala·Citizens Working for a Better Bridgeport·David Walker·Don Clemons·Eze Santiago·Jack Hennessy·Marilyn Moore·Mary-Jane Foster·Max Medina·Tom White
Tom White, Former City Council Staffer, Supports Bill To Ban City Employees From Serving On Legislative Body
February 11th, 2013 · 15 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, News and Events
Should city employees be allowed to serve on the Bridgeport City Council? The City Charter prohibits it, but state law provides a loophole that allows it, something State Rep. Jack Hennessy wants to close amid opposition from city employee council members trying to drum up support to kill the bill. Hennessy says city employees serving [...]
Tags: Jack Hennessy·Tom White
Mac The Knife! City Council’s White Out Leads To Federal Lawsuit
January 2nd, 2013 · 20 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, News and Events
Last May, the city’s legislative services director Tom White took issue with OIB’s assertion that he wanted to “reform the way” the City Council conducts business following a series of issues White had with several council members including Council President Tom McCarthy. There were problems apparently that White did not want to spill out publicly, [...]
Tags: CT Post·John Marshall Lee·Tom Bucci·Tom McCarthy·Tom White
What’s Next For Stop & Shop Property In North End?
September 12th, 2012 · 16 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Council, Development and Zoning
The Stop & Shop on Madison Avenue is scheduled to close at the end of business day September 20. What will replace it? The decision to shut down stunned just about everyone including many North End neighbors who warmed up to the store after opposing its construction 15 years ago in a heavy residential area.
Stop & Shop Madison Avenue Store To Close September 20
September 6th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Development and Zoning, News and Events
In the mid 1990s a Stop & Shop was the subject of a series of contentious zoning hearings in which many North End residents thought a super store was being shoved down their throats in a heavy residential area. This past week 130 employees at Stop & Shop have been notified the Madison Avenue store [...]
Tom White: City Government Is A Morally Compromised Institution
May 9th, 2013 · 12 Comments · Analysis and Comment, City Budget, City Council, News and Events
Former City Councilman Tom White has an interesting perspective on how the city’s legislative body works. White, the council’s legislative liaison for several years, was whited out of the budget last year for trying to reform the way it conducts business, according to a federal lawsuit he brought against the city several months ago represented [...]
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Tags: Brian Lockhart·Citizens Working for a Better Bridgeport·CT Post·Tom Bucci·Tom McCarthy·Tom White