Days after Mayor Joe Ganim announced a federal application to decommission the troubled Greene Homes public housing complex, government observer John Marshall Lee raises questions
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Category: City Council
City Council Debates Cigarette Age Limit Purchase
From Brian Lockhart, CT Post: The council’s Ordinance Committee this week voted 4 to 3 to make Bridgeport the second municipality in Connecticut to raise
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What Will Dennis Bradley Do?
The City Council agenda for Monday night is lean, but one item of note is the “Budget and Appropriations Committee Report re: Approval of General
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Harvard, Princeton, Yale: The City Council’s (Almost) Ivy League Club
Retired Superior Court Judge Carmen Lopez observes that the city’s legislative body must be an equal branch to the executive level. In Bridgeport, however, and
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Taking It To The Streets, Ganim Gears Up Public Improvement Goodies For Reelection Season
Mayor Joe Ganim’s up for reelection in 2019, that means lining up capital improvement goodies in time for campaign season such as sidewalks, paving and
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‘Delay, Deny, Deflect’–Why Were Six City Lawyers Required To Challenge Judge Lopez On The Budget Committee’s Illegal Hearing?
On one level it’s titillating: six city lawyers show up to face off against one lone retired judge, Carmen Lopez, at a City Council budget
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“I Make A Motion To Go Into Executive Session For Whatever He Said”–State FOI Rules Against City Council Commitee
The state Freedom of Information Commission on Wednesday sided with a state hearing officer who ruled city lawyers directed an illegal executive session of the City
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Joe And AJ Again–Ganim Issues Police Oath To Perez
Mayor Joe Ganim on Tuesday delivered the oath of office to his long-time friend Armando “AJ” Perez once again–the first March 1, 2016 in an
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