Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community
Last week I posited an improbable hypothetical: The Connecticut General Assembly adopts a law providing that the state no longer will provide any education aid to any municipality whose population is under 100,000. In other words, state assistance for education Continue reading ISN’T IT TIME TO END MUNICIPAL SEGREGATION IN GREATER HARTFORD?
The Hartford Courant did the community a great service Sunday morning, publishing an above-the-fold investigative story headed “How two towns illustrate racial divide.” West Hartford is mostly white. The article is largely about West Hartford, but it could just as Continue reading RACIAL SEGREGATION IN WEST HARTFORD AND BLOOMFIELD
Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney from New Haven once again this year has proposed changes in state-funded school construction reimbursement rates. By reducing reimbursement to some of Connecticut’s smallest towns, Looney‘s proposal would create an incentive for those towns Continue reading LOONEY REDUX
Why am I no longer a Republican? I know, many of you think that’s the wrong question. The correct question, you say, is “why were you ever a Republican?” Here’s how it happened. When I first registered to vote, in Continue reading Goodbye, GOP
I was talking to a friend the other day about racism. He is pessimistic and discouraged. He understands now how deeply embedded racism is in our culture and how difficult it will be to root it out. He said it Continue reading REASONS FOR OPTIMISM
By way of background, I read Mark’s blog on white supremacy and then wrote him an email suggesting that while he was correct, he was missing an important piece of the larger picture. After several back-and-forth emails, in which we Continue reading Trump Brought Out the Anti-Racist in Many of Us
For weeks, over and over, people said the election was stolen. Many of us have been baffled by such assertions. How can so many people honestly believe the election was stolen when there is essentially no evidence of fraud, collusion, Continue reading THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN
Give Bob Stefanowski credit for getting one thing right: Connecticut’s cities have major problems. Other than that, this guy who seems to still want to be Governor of Connecticut is clueless or lying. In case you missed it, the Wall Continue reading STEFANOWSKI
Through all those years of futility, years without division titles or playoff appearances, years without respect, years of frustration, I never thought about a game where the Bills crushed the Patriots. Yes, the Bills did beat the Patriots 31-0 in Continue reading Finally
Our country was founded on a simple but profound principle: That free people will build a new world, a better world. There was no way that the Founding Fathers could have known what we would build, but they had faith Continue reading THE NEXT NEW WORLD