When crime becomes cranky, it’s difficult for any pol to manage. It can take on a life of its own. Mayor Bill Finch wants to
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Deficit Clock Ticks, Plus: When Foes Become Friends
What’s new on the municipal union layoff/concession front? Still a holding pattern nearly two months into the budget year. City officials thought there was some
Read moreDo Results Match Finch’s Rhetoric
“Together we are making Bridgeport the cleanest, greenest, safest most affordable city, with schools and neighborhoods that improve each year” … Mayor Bill Finch Like
Read moreMayor, Mario And Malloy, Plus: Himes-Debicella Battle, And Pathetic Primary Turnout
Sounds like Mayor Bill Finch and Democratic Town Chair Mario Testa are doing and saying all the right things reaching out to guber primary winner Dan
Read moreWhy Polling Matters
In 2007, after Mayor John Fabrizi walked into a courtroom to seek leniency on behalf of a sexual offender who was a friend of Fabs’
Read moreWho’s The New Rooster? Plus: Linda Smacks Dick, And UB Dough
Is it me, or do we now have three wings of the Democratic Party in Bridgeport. The Mario Testa wing, the John Stafstrom wing, the Chris Caruso
Read moreCrime, A Gigantic Toothache
It’s been a rough summer for Mayor Bill Finch. Damn tornado rips through the downtown, city cops arrest his son Pete for hauling a wind-blown
Read moreThe Budget’s Royal Flush?
Mayors, for the most part, live and die by budgets. If you think the city budget is bleeding red this year wait until next year when
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