Current Author: Mark Korber

I thought it would be good to restate some of the basic premises of my blog, for a couple of reasons. First, if you’re a regular ...

Note: Last week I published an essay about the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and Greater Together, the Foundation’s program that provides $100,000 to each of ...

I love the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. I served on its Board of Directors for ten years. The Foundation has great volunteer leaders and great ...

Apologies in advance: this week I got lazy. Rather than writing, I’m cribbing from the thoughts of Middletown Mayor Ben Florsheim that appeared in The Hartford ...

My friend Paul inspires me. Paul is blessed with uncommon common sense. He has a knack for cutting through the irrelevant, seeing issues at the heart ...

I’m in an exclusive book group. Well, it isn’t exclusive in the sense that we have such high standards that admission is limited to a select ...

In January 2019, Connecticut State Senator Looney made a simple proposal: State funding for school systems that serve an area with fewer than 40,000 residents would ...

The other day a friend of mine called me a politico. I quickly disabused him of that notion. I’ve had other people suggest I should run ...

Savings One large city would provide more cost-effective government. It’s easy to say that one large city government for greater Hartford could be operated more cost-effectively ...

In a comment to one of my essays in this series, my friend Paul said this: “No quarrel from me with the abstract notion that a ...