Current Author: Mark Korber
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community.
MY NEIGHBORHOOD
I grew up in Eggertsville, a village that was part of Amherst, a town just north and east of Buffalo, New York. My family’s house was ...
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A NOTE TO MY WHITE FRIENDS
I’ve become an anti-racism activist. I’m not a demonstrating activist or a protesting activist. My activism is talking to people about racism. Primarily as the result ...
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FREEDOM WEEKS
Juneteenth should be a national holiday. When I first heard about Juneteenth, I thought it was a nice little idea to commemorate a time in history. ...
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WHAT I BELIEVE
The triumph of the United States is that it has shown the world the glory of freedom. The shame of the United States is that it ...
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LETTERS FROM WHITE AMERICA
After one of the briefest retirements in modern history, I’m back. Just two weeks ago I announced that I would take a break from HartfordTodayandTomorrow.com. I ...
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TAKING A BREAK
I’m taking a break from writing a blog about regionalism. With all that’s going on in our world and our country, it just feels like now ...
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DUMB LUCK ISN’T THE ANSWER
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
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
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
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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