Current Author: Mark Korber

Thanksgiving 1819 Central Connecticut, November 1819: The crops have been harvested and the fall canning is under way. Father is hurrying to finish repairs to house ...

As some of you know, I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. I haven’t lived there for nearly 50 years, but due to an ...

The Human Cultural Laboratory Would the Hartford region be better off with one large core city of, say, 300,000 people than the current municipal structure of ...

Did you see the New York Times article the other day about how Tulsa has proposed to divide its school system into several separate, free-standing school ...

Last week several of my friends sent me the link to Tom Condon’s excellent piece in the CT Mirror about how Louisville and Jefferson County merged ...

The other night I was talking to some people about why we need to merge towns into one city. Perhaps because they wanted to shut me ...

It might help to take a few minutes to visualize the city – call it Modern Hartford – that would be created by merging current Hartford ...

When I suggest to people that Hartford should merge with eight or ten towns to make a true mid-sized city, they tell me it’s too complicated, ...

Let’s get to the heart of the matter: Greater Hartford has a lot of problems and is not thriving as several similarly sized communities around the ...

The municipal governmental system in the Hartford area is a serious impediment to the growth and success, maybe even the survival, of Hartford as a viable ...