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
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UB 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
Read moreFunerals For Friends, Plus: Keep Squawking About The Budget Mess
I’m melancholy whenever a company goes out of business especially so when we’re conducting funerals for newspapers, where I got my start. The newspaper business
Read moreMy Middle Name Is Joe, Plus: New Shays-Himes Poll And Millions Of Voters
We have Joe The Bartender, Joe The Barber, Joe Six Pack and now Joe The Plumber. Hey, my middle name is Joe, were they talking
Read moreThe Politics of Public Facilities, Plus: Want Some Weed?
Hey, the city’s gonna have a director of Public Facilities real soon, and according to the skinny in City Hall it will be a familiar
Read moreGround Rules For Development
I hope Donald Eversley has a sense of humor. He’ll need one in the city’s current political environment in which Democratic Town Chairman Mario Testa
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