Mayor Bill Finch has appointed seven Bridgeport residents to serve on a new Charter Revision Commission designed to modernize an antiquated City Charter and examine education
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The Valor Of Vallas, Your Chance To Meet The School Super
Paul Vallas now runs the day-to-day operations of the Bridgeport school system. He knows something about managing urban schools. He did that in Philadelphia, Chicago and New Orleans.
Read moreWhat’s Robyn Spelled In Reverse? Nybor
Officials in the city’s Labor Relations Department conducted discipline hearings today in connection with this story below from the CT Post, pieced nicely by scribes
Read moreCity Council Scales Back Pay Increase Ordinance
The City Council Tuesday night approved a controversial pay scale for about 80 non-classified city employees, but with an amendment eliminating language in the ordinance that authorized
Read morePublic Hearing Tonight–Big Mac’s Red Meat Gauge
8:45 p.m. update: A testy crowd of more than 100 showed up at City Council Chambers for the public hearing conducted by the Ordinance Committee
Read moreDennis Wants To Menace Pay Raises
Madeline Dennis, host of www.bridgeportintheknow.com, has launched a Facebook page urging attendance at Tuesday night’s public hearing at City Hall to address a proposed ordinance that would
Read moreYour Chance To Speak Up About Proposed Pay Raises
Former City Councilman Bob “Troll” Walsh tells OIB “I’m retired, I haven’t died.” And this appears to be part of his message in a statement he sent to
Read moreIs This A Fair Decision?
From Dan Tepfer, CT Post: A police lieutenant, fired for covering up a drunk-driving hit and run crash involving a fellow officer who she was
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