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by Paul Bass | November 17, 2006 9:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sergio Rodriguez (pictured) is the new chair of the Board of Aldermen’s Finance Committee. Board President Carl Goldfield — perhaps trying to assuage a swing voter in what’s shaping up as a board-presidency rematch election next year — announced his appointment of Rodriguez Thursday… Rodriguez is in a hot seat: The city’s $4 million over this year’s budget. Click here for Angela Carter’s Register story… New Haven’s mayor joined a group of 15 area mayors and first selectmen — eight Democrats, seven Republicans — calling on the legislature to pass universal health care. (Message to Democratic House Speaker Jim Amann: That’s not just kids. It’s all 350,000 or more uninsured people in the state.)…

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