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In this ongoing series , we are sharing advice, tips and insights from real entrepreneurs who are out there doing business battle on a daily basis. (Answers have been edited and condensed for clarity.) Who are you and what is your business? I'm Ben Lamm, a serial technology entrepreneur who builds intelligent and transformative businesses. I am currently the founder and CEO of Hypergiant, a… → Read More
Guns are here to stay. All kinds of them. I have nothing against guns, nor against people who own them. To each his own. And, indeed, there is that constitutional right thing. However, there is no need in our society for - nor should there be the right to own - a weapon like the one used last week to kill 17 high school students in Florida, 26 people at Sandy Hook School in 2012, 58 people in… → Read More
Connecticut's understandable deep-seated antipathy to highway tolls was born in 1983, when an out-of-control tractor-trailer plowed into cars backed up at an old-fashioned toll booth on the Connecticut Turnpike in Stratford. The crash killed six people and injured four. So horrendous was the scene, that the state that year ordered tolls on the Connecticut Turnpike and Hartford area bridges to be… → Read More
Once again, the eyes of the city of Bridgeport are being dazzled by the visions of neon, in all the hues of Kool-Aid and Crayola, by the cha-ching of the cash registers and the spangled allure of a casino. It's not the first time. Let's just say the first time didn't work out so well. In the early 1990's, Donald Trump and Las Vegas colossus Steve Wynn eyed this market, a mere 50 miles from the… → Read More
For decades, Bridgeport nursing homes - and anywhere else where at least some of the residents might fall into the category of dazed and confused - have long been ATM machines of sorts for Democratic absentee ballots. Diligent party workers can mine a nursing home for all its worth, finding the margins needed for a landslide or, as may have happened more recently in a City Council Democratic… → Read More
For decades, Bridgeport nursing homes - and anywhere else where at least some of the residents might fall into the category of dazed and confused - have long been ATM machines of sorts for Democratic absentee ballots. Diligent party workers can mine a nursing home for all its worth, finding the margins needed for a landslide or, as may have happened more recently in a City Council Democratic… → Read More
John Ratzenberger has played many roles in a distinguished career that reaches back decades. Best known, perhaps, for the irrepressible "Cheers" barstool savant, Cliff Clavin. (a character shaped from the clay of actual Bridgeport know-it-alls Ratzenberger had encountered in his hometown), he's no one-dinensional actor - or person. With a voice - and face - tailor-made for animated films, he has… → Read More
BRIDGEPORT — In a vaulted space where Christians had worshipped for some 100 years, Muslims on Friday heeded the Adhan, the mellifluous call to prayer, and prostrated themselves in worship to Muhammad, Allah and Islam on the eve of Ramadan, a month-long period of fasting. [...] while it was an imam, Sheikh Mohamed Abdelati, who spoke, rather than a Congregationalist minister, the message was… → Read More
Though best known, perhaps, for the sheer spectacle of his circus — the freaks, menageries, mummies, elephants, human cannonballs, dwarfs and sword swallowers — it was the P.T. Barnum of the unstoppable comeback that the city of Bridgeport threw in with in 1948, when the Barnum Festival, the extravaganza dedicated to his memory, was created. Fully 140 years before Bridgeport re-elected a… → Read More
Though best known, perhaps, for the sheer spectacle of his circus — the freaks, menageries, mummies, elephants, human cannonballs, dwarfs and sword swallowers — it was the P.T. Barnum of the unstoppable comeback that the city of Bridgeport threw in with in 1948, when the Barnum Festival, the extravaganza dedicated to his memory, was created. Fully 140 years before Bridgeport re-elected a… → Read More