Okay, it’s Election Day and what a glorious day to vote. Your choices for mayor are Democratic incumbent Bill Finch, Republican Rick Torres and petitioning candidate
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The Troll’s Final Council Meeting
Leave it to mischievous Bob “Troll” Walsh to send one final message to the City Council at its regularly scheduled final meeting Monday night before the term of the
Read more67,689 Registered Voters–How Many Will Show Up?
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
Read moreGrant Application Pushes New Ferry Terminal In “Food Desert” Area
The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company has been tugged in opposite directions the past few years regarding a proposed relocation of its confining downtown
Read moreThe City’s Theatrical Twin Jewels–What Would The Mayoral Candidates Do?
The city was a smokin’ theater town thanks in part to Sylvester Poli. What would the mayoral candidates do with his shuttered twin gems? The
Read morePaging The Mayoral Candidates–A ‘Frank ‘n’ Stein Mailing’
Six days from the general election and very little word from the respective campaign camps. No statements, news releases, charges, countercharges or irresponsible accusations. What’s
Read moreCool Like Steel–A Photo Perspective
Kudos to an OIB friend supplying a sweet piece of pictorial history. As a followup to the Steel Point item on Tuesday Dr. Frank Gerratana, whose
Read moreWill Steel Point Happen?
Casinos to the south of Connecticut, casinos to the north of Connecticut. Remember when Connecticut was the biggest bookie in the United States with the
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