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$110m federal grant could save teaching jobs, for now (Connecticut Post)
A jobs bill that will shower the state with an estimated $110.4 million in the next month to save teacher jobs may also put more assistant principals in Bridgeport schools and soften the blow in districts around the region when federal bail-out money dries up in June. Three arrested in theft at warehouse (Connecticut Post)
Three men were arrested on burglary and larceny charges Friday as they tried to drive a pickup truck containing stolen copper fittings and electrical wire from a warehouse they had broken into on Railroad Avenue. Olivia Plouffe, center, of Trumbull talks with two students from her class in Deyang, in Chinaa s Sichaun province.
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BRIDGEPORT VOTERS: Hey, Jim Himes You Can't Just Say You're Pro-Israel. You Have To Be Pro-Israel (greenwichroundup.blogspot)
VIDEO: TV Ad Slams Greenwich Resident Jim Himes For Signing A Recent Letter That Accused Israel Of "Collective Punishment" For Enforcing The Gaza Blockade The Ad which Is to run On NBC's Nightly News blasts Congressman Himes for signing a recent letter.
The the letter asks Obama to pressure Israel to relieve the blockade.
It recognizes that the Gaza restrictions are born of "legitimate" fear on the part of Israel, but warns against allowing the blockade to result in "the de facto collective punishment" of Palestinians.
The real question is will Jewish, moderate and conservative Christian voters hold Jim Himes accountable for signing anti-Israel letters or doing anything else to undermine the US-Israel relationship.
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It is true that Jim Himes signed on to a letter with 52 of his liberal colleagues in the House of Representatives.
President Barack Obama responded to that letter by signing an Executive Order earmarking $20 million U.S. taxpayer dollars to "aid in the resettlement of Gaza refugees."
Recently President Obama announced that an additional $400 million will go to the Palestinian Governing Authority to aid in a "humanitarian crisis".
Its Time To Put American's First In a year of record budget deficits, unemployment and foreclosures this is how Congressman Jim Himes and President Obama are spending our tax dollars.
What Is Hearst Newspaper's Opinion About The Emergency Committee For Israel Running Ads Blasting Congressman Jim Himes As Anti-Israel Letter?
We Will Know Once Jim Himes' Campaign Manager Mark Henson Tells CT Post Political Writer Jonathan Kantrowiz What To Write.
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L.A. Man Offers 3K Reward -- for a Job (abcnews.go)
The latest evidence that America's unemployed are near the end of their rope? A Dallas woman finds a creative way to get back into the work force.... ... the start of the recession numerous job seekers have garnered media attention for creative efforts. There was the Bridgeport, Connecticut woman who rented a full-sized roadside billboard, and the Santa Clarita woman who turned her resume into a ...
Man acquitted in 2008 stabbing death shot in the head (norwalkcitizenonline)
A 19-year-old acquitted in the stabbing death of a Bridgeport man in 2008, was shot in the head in South Norwalk Friday afternoon and has been placed on life support, police said.... About 200 men, women and children gathered at southeastern Connecticut's only mosque Friday afternoon for the first weekly service of the monthlong Ramadan observance amid concerns about anti-Islamic demonstrations at the opposite end of Connecticut over the last eight days....
... It relocated there after several years in New London. Ahmed said some members of the congregation had gone to Bridgeport "to provide guidance" about how their fellow Muslims should respond after the incidents at a mosque there last week. "We have a ...
The revolutionary Eunice Chapman, who won the first legal divorce in New York State in 1818 -- then became embroiled in an epic custody battle with her ex-husband. The revolutionary Eunice Chapman, who won the first legal divorce in New York State in 1818 -- then became embroiled in an epic custody battle with her ex-husband. On an unseasonably ...
... consideration. Eunice's father was an entrepreneurial character, a dry-goods merchant and skilled carpenter in Bridgeport, Connecticut, who ran a boardinghouse for sailors on the side. His business failures, though common in this era, would blight ...
Immigrant fatally stabbed (ctpost)
Police on Saturday were investigating the city's 18th homicide of the year, following a Friday afternoon stabbing in a house on Madison Avenue........ did not have legal residency documents. Police ask that anyone with information on the incident should call the Bridgeport Police Detective Bureau at 203-581-5201.
Syphilis On the Rise in Fairfield County (Wilton Patch)
Syphilis is on the rise in Fairfield County. That's according to the latest statistics released by the state Department of Public Health, which also reports that among the most commonly reported sexually transmitted diseases , rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia are on a decline in the county. Christian group promises to keep evangelizing at mosque (Connecticut Post)
Marilyn Carroll, spokeswoman for the group Operation Save America is surrounded by media at a news conference near the Bridgeport Islamic Society on Fairfield Ave., in Bridgeport, Conn. Man acquitted in 2008 stabbing death shot in the head (Norwalk Citizen News)
A 19-year-old acquitted in the stabbing death of a Bridgeport man in 2008, was shot in the head in South Norwalk Friday afternoon and has been placed on life support, police said.
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