On a night the public was invited to speak about Mayor Joe Ganim’s $542 million proposed budget, most delivered passionate appeals for additional education spending
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Wild Ride Shaping Up For City Council Election Season
If your favorite sports are politics and primaries (me too), strap in for a slew of Democratic battles for City Council. 0
Read moreWill Scott Feel The Budget Burn?
Standing outside O&G’s ominous stockpiling plant in the East End, the wind whipping off Yellow Mill Pond, City Councilman Scott Burns joined Mayor Joe Ganim
Read moreFireworks At City Council Meeting, Angry Taxpayers Vent At Mayor, Council Over Hike
Update, includes video: More than 400 vexed taxpayers, most from the higher assessed Black Rock neighborhood, vented on Mayor Joe Ganim in a jammed City
Read moreGanim Launches Second Chance Initiative For Ex-offenders
Mayor Joe Ganim on Friday was joined by city and state lawmakers, business leaders and local nonprofits to announce a Second Chance Society initiative aimed
Read moreLet The Sun In (Especially On Fiscal Matters)
City fiscal watchdog John Marshall Lee stepped up to the podium at the City Council meeting Monday night to remind members not to spend too
Read moreCity Council Committees Approve Sludge Deal With Trumbull
In a 5-1 vote Tuesday night the joint committee on Miscellaneous Matters and Contracts approved a proposed settlement of pending sewer rate litigation and wastewater
Read moreBudget Committee Cuts Chapman From Ganim Plan, Delays Police Class, Adds $1.5 Million To Education
A weary Budget and Appropriations Committee turned a long day’s Saturday journey into an early morning Sunday vote just after midnight by cutting nearly $4 million
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