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BRIDGEPORT -- In Mayor Bill Finch's first term, he squeezed more than $20 million in concessions from the city's labor unions. Now, in his second term, he's asking for even more. But union leaders, who had no advance notice of the $1.6 million in concessions factored into the 2013-14 budget unveiled Tuesday, say there isn't much left to give. CT Post has the full story here......
Geoff Fox, the popular Connecticut weatherman who fell from grace, is heading west. Fox and his wife, Helaine, have put their 3,367-square-foot colonial on the market and plan to move to Southern California to be closer to their daughter, Stefanie, who works in TV production in Hollywood — and because they’re done dealing with winter, Fox said Monday. The New Haven Register has the full story here......
BRIDGEPORT -- With threatened state cuts hanging over his head, Mayor Bill Finch is proposing a 2013-14 budget that would hike taxes 2.5 mills to help fund an $8.3 million increase in city spending and a $10 million cut in state aid. Connecticut Post has the full story here.....
Town of Fairfield Board of Finance cuts full funding of Pequot Library! "This is unbelievable I am shocked" said RTM Eric Sunman in a tweet tonight, "Pequot Library will face closure now that the Board of Finance says no".
5:23pm--#Norwalk CT-- Firefighters on the way to Marshall's on Connecticut Avenue to unlock a vehicle with a child left inside. No word on the child's age.
(Bridgeport, CT – April 1, 2013) -- Two brothers were released without bond after a disagreement over potatoes led to a confrontation after they did not see eye to eye Officers Carlos Pabon and Pasquale Speranza were sent to a Brewster Street address Sunday afternoon on a report of two brothers fighting. William Downey, 53, of Stratford, stated he was in the kitchen making potatoes when his brother, John Downey, 57, stated he was making too many potatoes and punched him. John Downey, of Milford, admitted to throwing a punch at his brother and also stated that William Downey had pulled out a cooking pot and tried hitting him with it. William Downey acknowledged that he in fact wielded a…
Rep. Tony Hwang & Jerry Greenfield, the co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, joined together to support CT House Bill 6519 legislation at CT General Assembly’s Public Health Committee hearing. HB 6519 would require the labeling of genetically engineered foods (GMO) in our food supply. http://1.usa.gov/Y76Dkv Rep. Tony Hwang submitted testimony in the public hearing and emphasized that, “We have a fundamental right to know what is in our food so we can make informed choices about what we feed our families. Consumers may or may not wish to purchase foods that they know to be genetically modified, but they need the information made available to them to make those informed choices. This bill would require that labels provide…
3:2pm--#Fairfield CT--Police, and EMS were called to the southbound rest stop on the Merritt Parkway this afternoon for a distraught possibly suicidal person. When they arrived at the rest stop the man had left on foot in the wooded areas on Congress Street, then Sport Hill Road and into the cascade area near the General Electric headquarters. Fairfield's K-9 Ruger assisted in the search. The man was located shortly after 5:30pm., A prescription bottle in his possession was empty. Not chancing a possible overdose the man was transported a nearby hospital.
11:02pm--#Bridgeport CT--A van coming down Pearl Harbor Street sneak attacked an unsuspecting fence taking the corner of it down, crossing Granfield Avenue and crashing into the right hand corner of a house. The driver was able get out of the van on her own. The house integrity structure was not compromised. One of the occupants said it sounded like bomb going off when it happened. Police are investigating.
10:39pm--#Bridgeport CT--Police sent to the 500 block of Kossuth Street because a sister stole her brothers sneakers.....