Opinion writer Jonathan L. Wharton says he appreciates the state-level effort to set up election monitoring in Bridgeport as another absentee ballot controversy unfolds in court, but the city's own leaders first need to stand up to machine politics to build renewed faith in the election process.
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Thomas Fleming writes of the struggles and triumphs of an Irish-American family. ℘℘℘ My County Mayo-born grandfather, David Fleming, could not read or write. He had a brogue so thick I couldn't understand a word he said. But I knew one thing. He was Irish and proud of it. He had a favorite poem that