Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch has taken a good first step toward creating a commission to review the City Charter. It’s a paramount step that, if executed with genuine intent, can yield benefits and prosperity to the city and its residents. In all honesty, we would have preferred to see at least one person representing the [...] Continue Reading…

Ernie Newton officially returns to the Park City political stage on Saturday, Jan. 28, when he will declare his candidacy for the 23rd District state Senate seat, a position currently held by Sen. Ed Gomes, who has been in office since Newton departed for a federal penitentiary back in 2005. Newton had represented the 23rd [...] Continue Reading…

The firing of Bridgeport public schools Superintendent John Ramos should serve as vindication for former Board of Education members Sauda Baraka, Maria Pereira and Bobby Simmons. On Aug. 5, members Barbara Bellinger, Leticia Colon, Delores Fuller, Thomas Cuningham, Thomas Mulligan and Nereyda Robles voted to surrender the

We were witness to a Democratic primary full of candidates, issues and surprises. John Gomes was the first to enter the race. Early in 2010, he was very enthusiastic about the election and walking the streets in search of votes. He was followed by Charles Coviello and then Mary-Jane Foster. By late August, Gomes and [...] Continue Reading…

The events of recent weeks have dramatically impacted the upcoming Democratic primary for mayor in Bridgeport. To briefly recap, challenger Mary-Jane Foster was denied a spot on the ballot for mayor by Democratic Registrar of Voters Santa Ayala due to a technicality. The error was that Foster’s team submitted four candidates for a possible Board [...] Continue Reading…

Now that the nuking of the Bridgeport Board of Education is a matter of historical record, it’s a little surprising to us that no one in City Hall has sounded the alarm — at least publicly — about the implications of what took place. What took place was this: The state, responding to a dramatic [...] Continue Reading…

Your eyes aren’t playing tricks and you didn’t pick up the wrong newspaper. The Park City Independent has a new name. Starting with our June issue, we are the Fairfield County Independent. We’ve changed our name because we just opened a bureau in Norwalk staffed by two veteran journalists who will report on events there [...] Continue Reading…

Sometimes good intentions just do not work out. Such is the case with Mayor Bill Finch’s recent appointment of Tim Quinn as spokesman for the Bridgeport Police Department. Don’t get us wrong: If you needed a city spokesman, Quinn should be the guy.