Month Published: May, 2020
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community.
DUMB LUCK ISN’T THE ANSWER
May 29, 2020
I’ve been been writing for several months now about one issue, the only issue I think matters for greater Hartford. I believe that unless and until ...
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PASSION
May 22, 2020
It was sometime around 1995, between periods at a Whalers-Bruins game in the Hartford Civic Center. I was standing in line outside the men’s room. Immediately ...
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REORGANIZING DOESN’T WORK
May 15, 2020
Over the course of my professional career, one thing that I came to understand is that administrative reorganization does not fix organizations. I saw it often: ...
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WHY ONE LARGE CITY GOVERNMENT WOULD BE BETTER
May 8, 2020
Better Services Would the Hartford region be better off with one large core city of, say, 300,000 people than the current municipal structure of a small ...
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CHANGE
May 1, 2020
As I finished meandering through The Hartford Courant (Sunday, April 26, 2020), I had one lasting impression: It seems we are at one of those special ...
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