Current Author: Mark Korber

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carolyn and I love our house. We had lived in Glastonbury for close to 20 years when our daughter, our youngest child, went off to college. ...

When will Hartford abandon its dysfunctional, balkanized local governance structure in favor of a unified collection of systems that optimizes efficiency and effectiveness while controlling cost? ...

A couple of months ago, the Connecticut MIrror published a lengthy article about Connecticut’s “struggle to move into the 21st century” with respect to the disposal ...

We are living through difficult times. COVID-19 threatens the lives of many of us. Our institutions, our systems, our governments and our people are struggling to ...

A friend of mine sent me this link to a Ted Talk from 2015. Maybe you’ve seen it. It’s Bill Gates talking about the 2020 virus. ...

Author’s note: I wrote and planned to publish an optimistic commentary on the covid-19 situation (some might have called it Pollyannaish). Then I considered writing about ...

The coronavirus is the topic du jour, and with good reason. The pandemic is affecting our lives in ways we hadn’t imagined just a few weeks ...