On Saturday, March 16th, Bridgeport residents are invited to attend a public forum to address their state representatives and senators regarding HB5724, a proposed bill which would close a loophole in the Connecticut State Statutes that currently allows Bridgeport employees, and city employees in other municipalities, to hold elected positions in their representative assemblies. The [...] Continue Reading…

Emelinda Valdéz said it is never too late to get the call from God. “After all, I already had the land. All I have to do is dedicate it to God’s desire,” said the elderly lady of Dominican descent, who lives in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Valdéz is a member of the First Baptist Church in [...] Continue Reading…

A solid “no” was the answer on Election Day to a camouflaged question related to the Board of Education on the ballot in Bridgeport — 12,590 votes no and

After winning the Democratic primary, there was no doubt Christina Ayala would win the general election. The Democrats’ control in the city is absolute. Ayala collected 3,143 votes, while her Republican opponent Manuel Batagua received 372. Ayala, 29, said she will now concentrate on serving the residents of Bridgeport. Batagua, a native of Portugal, said [...] Continue Reading…

Republican candidate Linda McMahon spent close to $50 million in her quest to become Connecticut’s first female U.S. senator. But she fell short of winning a victory over Democrat Chris Murphy, who collected 710,000 votes (or 55 percent), while McMahon won 605,000 (or 44 percent) of the total vote. Many say the fight for the [...] Continue Reading…

There is no doubt the 2012 presidential election will be recorded in the history books as one of the most “diverse” in years. That diversity was not in the candidates, but in issues that past elections didn’t have: By the day before the election the campaigns of President Barak Obama and his Republican opponent Mitt [...] Continue Reading…

It started as little more than a wood hut off Main Street, then a dirt road, in Bridgeport’s North End. The year was 1942, and the owner of the newly-opened Merritt Canteen, Lorraine Koehm, hoped to attract hungry travelers looking to take a break as they drove from New York to Boston on the nearby [...] Continue Reading…

Citizens and community leaders in Bridgeport rallied on Stratford Avenue to defeat a city ballot question that will remove Bridgeport residents’ right to vote for members of the Board of Education. Crowding the modest campaign office on Stratford Avenue, supporters, including members of Protect our Voting Rights Coalition, cheered under a large “VOTE NO” window [...] Continue Reading…

More than 100 residents recently walked to raise public awareness of AIDS. The volunteers started the march at Washington Park

The streets around Warren G. Harding High School were mobbed with police officers on the first day of school. The lights of patrol cars flashed at street corners, officers in helmets biked up and down the sidewalk and security guards wearing yellow vests with the words Safe Corridors on the back walked out of the [...] Continue Reading…