Bridgeport Budget Committee Makes Recommendations
The Bridgeport Budget and Appropriations Committee finally voted on Mayor Ganim’s proposed budget on Saturday night. The committee delayed a new...
Monthly Archive: May 2016
Reality Check – Who Owns All Our Debt
Monday’s Reality Check – a weekly presentation of facts and figures to help us all discuss important issues with some degree of understanding....
Khan Wins London Mayoralty
It was nice to see Sadiq Khan overwhelmingly elected to be London’s mayor, overcoming smears from his Conservative opponent and becoming...
Kentucky Derby Recap
Well, I hope you all saved some money and didn’t take my Derby recommendations. At least Exaggerator was closing fast and...
Transit of Mercury
Tomorrow, Monday, May 9, viewers across most of the world will have a chance to see a rather rare event – the...
Kentucky Derby Predictions
The Kentucky Derby, the first leg of the Triple Crown in horse racing, will be run later this afternoon. As a...
Bridgeport Upgrades Supported by Sen. Murphy
It is good to see Senator Murphy is on-board for upgrading the transportation infrastructure in and around Bridgeport, including widening I-95,...
Trump Wants To Use His Bankruptcy Experience For US Debt
Apparently Donald Trump wants to bring his rather vast experience with bankruptcy restructuring to our national government. In an interview with...
Another Decent Employment Report
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its monthly employment data for April and the results were, for lack of a better...
NYC Passes Bag Bill
Yesterday, the New York City Council passed a bill that would require certain business to collect a 5 cent fee on...