Are You Feeling Lucky? Plus: Court Ruling Re Special Master
3:30 p.m. UPDATE: Friday the 13th, lucky day for me. How about you? Chris Dodd must feel like his mouth has been glued to a diesel exhaust with the motor running. The revved up media fumes just keep on...
View ArticleHow Investigations Start–Sometimes It’s A Pen Pal
By all accounts, so far the investigation by law enforcement officials into the city’s construction management and Minority Business Enterprise programs and internally in City Hall as a personnel...
View ArticleFormer FBI Agent: Feds Examining Roadway Deal
Ed Adams has special insight into how the FBI works. He was the case agent of the federal probe that led to the 2003 conviction of former Mayor Joe Ganim on a variety of public corruption charges....
View ArticleFebruary 2015 News Highlights
– Just two years after he was serenaded for his public service following a Democratic primary loss, Ed Gomes returned to the State Senate on Friday following his mighty special election win running on...
View ArticleMayoral Race Heats Up In May, 2015 OIB News Highlights
2015 May news highlights: The concept began with former State Rep. Auden Grogins, now on the state bench, and has continued with her State House replacement Steve Stafstrom. The state Department of...
View ArticleSeptember 2015 Shocker: Revenant Ganim Stuns Finch, Wins Primary, Finch...
Is there any doubt about the story of the year in Connecticut’s largest city? Joe Ganim rocketed from political hell to heaven defeating incumbent Bill Finch in the September primary on his way to a...
View ArticleGanim, Lembo Announce Plan For Tracking Financial Data
Update includes video: Following the lead of Connecticut Comptroller Kevin Lembo, Mayor Joe Ganim on Wednesday announced the building of a financial portal “OpenBridgeport” so taxpayers can track in...
View ArticleGander Ganim’s Payroll Lineup
How many direct hires has Joe Ganim made since he reclaimed the mayoralty starting December 1? Less than 30, according to a list of discretionary appointments provided by the city following an OIB FOI...
View ArticleTransition Team Report Issues Government Reforms
Mayor Joe Ganim’s transition team on Wednesday shared recommendations to improve government efficiency and access to public information that included requiring mandatory freedom of information training...
View ArticleCapital Plan, Creating Office Of Government Accountability Heading To City...
Mayor Joe Ganim has trotted out a whole bunch of goodies earmarked in a five-year capital plan worth some $178 million that covers schools, police, sidewalks, parks and neighborhood gateways. A prior...
View ArticleGanim Proposes Government Accountability Office–Work Horse Or Show Horse?
Joe Ganim’s surreal comeback, arguably the only one of its kind in American mayoral politics, was lifted by the retired FBI agent Ed Adams who was part of the investigation team that topped JG1 in...
View ArticleGanim’s Proposed Office Of Government Accountability Stalls–Why Not Support A...
Mayor Joe Ganim’s proposal for an Office of Government Accountability has stalled in a City Council committee. Perhaps he’s now reticent about creating another layer of bureaucracy in a difficult...
View ArticleByers Remorse At Housing Authority?
The Bridgeport Housing Authority will have four executive directors in about four years with the announced departure of George Byers following a dispute with Mayor Joe Ganim who appoints the...
View ArticleShake-up Looms Over Troubled Housing Authority
Rudderless at the top, crime challenged and guideline glitched, the agency that oversees a $51 million budget serving the housing needs of 12,000 residents could experience a major shake-up in the...
View ArticleRevisiting Ganim’s Historic Comeback
One year ago on Nov. 3, Joe Ganim made history reclaiming the mayoral office he was forced out of following his conviction on federal corruption charges in 2003. Thursday night city Democrats and...
View ArticlePromoting Transparency, Ganim Unveils Financial Website, Lembo: Public Can...
Piggybacking a state online financial portal, Mayor Joe Ganim on Thursday introduced Open Budget that provides insight into city financial information including revenues and expenditures and payments...
View ArticleWhat’s Ganim’s Grade On Government Reform His First Year Back?
During the 2015 comeback campaign Joe Ganim rolled on a deodorant to mask a past that had forced him from office in 2003: public support from the retired FBI agent Ed Adams who investigated him and...
View Article‘Oh Boy,’ 10 Years Of OIB, Happy New Year And Anniversary
How could this be? OIB enters 10 years of prying open the juicy stuff in 2017. Sometimes posters shuck open each other with hammer to screwdriver, but that’s part of the charm (or pain), a pearly...
View ArticleBalletto’s Ballet–Testa Fundraiser Hauls in $43K, $10K Donated To State Party
When Bridgeport Democratic Town Chair Mario Testa hosted a fundraiser in November at his Madison Avenue restaurant it was billed as a general election rally to also commemorate the one-year anniversary...
View ArticleConfronting City’s New ‘RoboCops’
Retired Superior Court Judge Carmen Lopez’s patience meter for the city’s new Downtown parking meters has run out. She writes in a commentary “patrons of downtown businesses are given tickets without...
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