Why Strong Department Heads Matter: John Marsilio
Joe Riccio’s departure as executive director of the Bridgeport Port Authority buoys the importance of strong decision makers in department and agency roles. Riccio, a good guy who had a mighty run as...
View ArticleMarketing Bridgeport
It was 1997 and Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim asked me what it would take to turn around Bridgeport’s image. You take success stories, I told him, and market the city in a statewide radio and television...
View ArticleThe Mayor’s Myopia
Mayor Bill Finch reinforces his hopeless case of Mad Myopia in Connecticut Post reporter Linda Conner Lambeck’s feature about the University of Bridgeport’s comeback. Without doing his homework,...
View ArticleEducation Politics
Hey, want to go on the Board of Education? Straighten stuff out. Cut this. Slash that. Do us proud. Make my job easier. Well, Mayor Bill Finch hopes, wishes, expects, whatever that the two BOE...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Slogans
“Together we are making Bridgeport the cleanest, greenest, safest most affordable city, with schools and neighborhoods that improve each year”…. Mayor Bill Finch The salutation above graces every...
View ArticleRusso’s Congressional Rationale
It would’ve been fun. Republican State Senator John McKinney, son of the late Stewart McKinney, trying to win the congressional seat that his dad occupied for roughly 16 years. The timing wasn’t right...
View ArticleLibrary Book Fight
Library officials want to throw the book at Mayor Bill Finch. Well, sort of. They say the library system is woefully underfunded and they haven’t been enamored of the mayor since he described library...
View ArticleThe Road To Mayor: The Caruso Factor
A federal judged has blowtorched Connecticut’s groundbreaking program to fund state political races. U.S. District Judge Stefan Underhill ruled the Citizens Election Program “imposes an...
View ArticleWhere Have You Gone Mr. T? Plus: Pleasure Beach Demo And Hennessy Statement
My last entry about candidates that may play in a Democratic mayoral primary in 2011 drew some emails. Lennie, what is the matter with you! No mention of a black candidate or a candidate that appeals...
View ArticleCuckoo Cuckoo: Nurses Ratchet Up Ramos Pay Diss
Where’s Nurse Ratchet when you need her? Well, a lot of nurses working for the city wouldn’t mind examining the brain cells of Superintendent of Schools John Ramos. School nurses that come under the...
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