The following is Mayor Bill Finch’s budget letter to the City Council. The mayor writes about state aid reductions forcing a challenging municipal budget, a tax increase
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Can We Talk Mayoral Campaign?
In Bridgeport politics it doesn’t matter your shape, size, color, ethnicity … everyone’s gotta get their pound of flesh. And sometimes a public opinion poll
Read moreJodi’s Jail Deadline, Plus: The City Budget, And What About Shays?
Okay kids, 10 days left to meet Jodi’s Jail deadline. Governor Jodi Rell wants to place a $20 million juvenile detention center for girls in a
Read moreWhere Have You Gone Lowell Weicker? Does Chris Dodd Give A Crap About Bridgeport? Plus: Fab Radio
Lowell Weicker, now there’s a guy who did something for Bridgeport. Check that, not something but a lot. Check that, not a lot but more than any pol on
Read moreYou’re Making Me Dizzy, My Head Is Spinning …
Afternoon Update (Or as Tommy Roe put it:) Round and round and round she goes where she stops does anyone know? Tonight, in the Carousel Building
Read moreItch And Switch, Plus: Visit Tonight, And Tell Us Another One
Afternoon update: I’m thinking we may see some switchers in this gubernatorial cycle. Yeah, sometimes in politics it’s better to switch than fight. The wide
Read moreNew Q Poll, Plus: Himes On Health, And Okay Class, We Need Ideas For A City Welcome Wagon
Morning Update: Hey, I’ve just returned from four days in Pinehurst, NC where Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Seaside Park, created a New England Village
Read moreScoop About Poop, Plus: Local Moolah For Malloy, Spooky Stuff And Kohut Zone
Remember that proposal to build a sewage treatment plant in Monroe to connect to Trumbull’s wastewater system that’s linked to the poop-treatment mothership in Bridgeport? Trumbull
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