Samuel Breidbart
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CITY COLUMN | Breidbart: March Madness, bailout-style
Chris Dodd vs. Tim Geithner: There’s a match-up that wasn’t anywhere to be seen on Barack Obama’s March Madness bracket last week. But, in truth, it may have been the only one that really mattered in his mind.
Breidbart: Rell's budget awash with worries
Connecticut state legislators remained divided this week over how Connecticut residents should do their laundry.
Breidbart: Budget touts regionalism
Believe it or not, Sarah Palin could have been governor of Connecticut.
Breidbart: Rell, thank the Academy
"Revolutionary Road,” filmed on location this past summer in Stamford and Trumbull, is expected to be up for several Academy Awards next month. That should bring some well-deserved recognition to the growing film industry here in Connecticut — er, Hollywood East.
Breidbart: Sustain the budget via sustainability
President-elect Barack Obama hosted the nation’s governors in Philadelphia on Tuesday and Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell was amongst those who attended. The group chatted about how the federal government can help the states make it through the ongoing economic crisis and what sort of relief might be feasible. As for the terms proposed: The governors want $136 billion for infrastructure and $40 billion for health care. It remains to be seen if those numbers will be met, but right now, Connecticut will certainly take all the money it can get. The state Office of Policy and Management is projecting a $338 million deficit for the end of this year — not to mention the $6 billion deficit projected for two years from now.
Breidbart: State Dems need to make health care a priority
Breidbart: State Dems need to make health care a priority
Breidbart: A president who understands
We’ve had a peanut farmer from Georgia and a self-proclaimed cowboy from Texas, but it has been some time since the United States has had a president who called a big city home. With the election of Sen. Barack Obama from Chicago last Tuesday, that streak has finally come to an end.
Breidbart: City has options beyond layoffs
As the federal government moves to do whatever it can to bail out Wall Street (ah, to be a CEO), cities nationwide are left to fend for themselves and their financial future. New Haven is no exception.
Voter participation high in Elm City
New Haven radiated blue on Tuesday as Sen. Barack Obama claimed 88.5 percent of the vote and Sen. John McCain took 11.5 percent. Throughout New Haven, enthusiasm for the election was high. People gathered at polling places before moderators arrived, and those who were unregistered lined up outside the aldermanic chambers in City Hall to cast provisional ballots for president. Connecticut voter turnout was predicted to reach 90 percent. But this enthusiasm did not preclude Election Day glitches.
Homework? No, there’s a state to be canvassed
KEENE, N.H. — With just a few days remaining before the 2008 elections, polls from New Hampshire show Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with a sizable lead among voters. But, taking nothing for granted, 35 members of the Yale College Democrats ventured here on Saturday to canvass.