I hadn’t chatted with Carmen Lopez in a long time, but we had a chance to catch up on Thursday about this and that. The retired Superior
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Merrick Alpert Visits, Mother Rell’s Keno, GOP Speaks, The Blonde Banshee, And Clemons
Chris Dodd’s mired in a mortgage-load of dung and it doesn’t look like things will get better for Connecticut’s senior senator any time soon. The Q Poll
Read moreYou Have The Power
I’m wondering what OIB readers think about our elected officials. Certainly, there’s opinion aplenty about Mayor Bill Finch and some others on a regular basis. What
Read moreHow’s Finch Doing After 18 Months? Plus: Brownfield Bucks
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
Read moreSure, A New Tax, Gulp
1:30 p.m. update. If you want city business leaders to grab a whiskey bottle and revolver the Bridgeport City Council is just the ticket to
Read moreUB Good Now, You Hear
The hiring of Mary-Jane Foster as vice president for university relations at the University of Bridgeport places an emphasis on relations, one in particular, that could
Read moreForum To Flush Out Issues, Plus: Amann Speaks For $120K
What’s going on with the controversial proposal to tie a sewer line from Monroe to Trumbull that’s hooked into Bridgeport? An effort is at hand to
Read moreBe It Resolved: Jim Himes Has Juice (Hopefully), Plus: Finch Comments On Layoffs
New Year’s Eve Eve and the timing couldn’t be better for a governmental be-it-resolved list. Congressman-elect Jim Himes, who’ll be sworn in January 6, has
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