Current Author: Mark Korber

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 ...

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 ...