Why Bridgeport?

Posted on October 13, 2025

Editor's Note: Jon Griffith formerly wrote this blog as a member of Bridgeport City Council. The majority of Griffith's de...

Posted on November 23, 2024

“The customer comes first” is a management adage repeated frequently by business leaders. Conceptual...

Posted on November 09, 2024

I regard the City of Bridgeport as a community for all ages. What do I mean by that? A...

Posted on October 26, 2024

“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.” American author James A. Michener’s quot...

Posted on October 12, 2024

Anyone who knows me even remotely most likely understands that I am not a baseball guy. I did play wiffle ball with my f...

Posted on September 28, 2024

19th-century American author, journalist, and political activist Edward Bellamy said, “If bread is the first nec...

Posted on September 14, 2024

The proverb “Good things come in small packages” is often attributed to renowned Greek fable writer and st...

Posted on August 31, 2024

As a child living in a divorced family, it was routine for my father to pick up my brothers and me early on Saturday m...

Posted on August 17, 2024

One of the most disappointing things I remember growing up was seeing the first back-to-school commercials on TV each...

Posted on August 03, 2024

Irving Berlin composed the show tune “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)” for the 1946 Broadway musical Annie Get Y...

Posted on July 20, 2024

According to legendary football coach Bear Bryant of the University of Alabama, “If you believe in yourself and have d...

Posted on July 06, 2024

What is essential for humans to survive? There is a considerably large range of answers to this question. At...

Posted on June 22, 2024

“Oh man. To believe in yourself. To believe in one another. Man, that’s fundamental to being alive. And look, if you can...

Posted on June 08, 2024

If you don’t know by now, please understand, that I love Bridgeport. Living, working, worshipping, and serving here...

Posted on May 25, 2024

Frequent readers of “Why Bridgeport?” may have gained some perplexing and possibly concerning insights into my mind. Congr...

From the Bench: The 2025 Calendar Year P...

There are school calendar years and calendar years. With the start of the New (calendar) Year still close in the rearv...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: BHS 2000 Valedictorians, Sa...

The is from the Class of 2000 and courtesy of the Ki-Cu-Wa yearbook. This was when schools in Harrison County h...

Posted by Dick Duez
The Cyber Beacon Protecting Children fro...

Cybercrime is no longer limited to stolen credit cards or hacked email accounts. One of the most dangerous and emotionally...

Posted by Joe Earley
ToquiNotes: Deceased Restaurant List "Th...

Editor's Note: A blog that ran in November was a blog from many years ago. That original blog drew so many comments th...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Off the Shelf: Reflecting on the Library...

As we settle into 2026, I want to take a moment to look back and reflect on 2025. The library had an excellent year fu...

Posted by Angela Spatafore
The Grapevine: Looking at Our Women of D...

On January 19 we will observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day. February is designated as Black History Month and it is at t...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen