Word: bridgeport
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...BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Into purgatorial fire, the United States District Court of Connecticut must cast one of two souls, the state government or the Catholic Church. The Office of State Ethics accuses the Church of breaking Connecticut’s lobbying rules last spring when the Diocese of Bridgeport protested liberal legislation. Distraught, the diocese seeks clemency and asks the court to prohibit OSE from applying these rules to the Church. To quench this inferno, the state legislature should exempt churches from its lobbying rules—because churchgoers aren’t powerbrokers...
...that a regional program would be more feasible than the Cambridge-only bike sharing program that the Council had floated previously. “We’re more ambitious than that,” Rubenstein said. “We want people to envision biking from Cambridge to Bridgeport.” But Seidel said that he was concerned such a large-scale program would stall. “Community to community cooperation can take a lot of work to get a very small distance,” he said. City Councilor Craig Kelley added that he thought Cambridge...
...appliances such as microwaves and washing machines-not to mention voting machines-with touch screens will cause a "one step forward, two steps back" situation. If designers can figure out a way to not leave the blind behind, we can truly celebrate the technology of touch. Thomas J. Murphy, Bridgeport, Connecticut...
Thomas J. Murphy, BRIDGEPORT, CONN...
Should lewd material in music videos also be eliminated? -Derick Larbi, Bridgeport, Conn.I don't see how this generation is any more lewd. Their skirts are no shorter than the previous generation's. Women have been objectified throughout history. We have to work on that. Don't say that rappers invented it. People love pointing fingers at the rappers...