Current Author: Mark Korber
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community.
Nantucket
I’ve been thinking about homelessness. What do I know about homessness? Relative to social scientists and social workers who work in the field, nothing. Relative to ...
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Restarting, At Least for a While
Someone asked the other day, “what happened to your blog?” I was flattered to be asked. Most people just wondered what took me so long to ...
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LET’S NOT CHANGE THE SUBJECT
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. ...
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Open Letter to Two Friends
Open letter to my two friends: Within 24 hours you both told me of the horrors of Buckhead, Georgia. Sounds like an eruption of violence and criminality ...
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ON THE CONSTITUTION, 85%, AND IDAHO
A friend suggested that I watch the YouTube video of The Scalia Lecture at Harvard Law School presented by Associate Justice Breyer in April 2021. The ...
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COVET NOT THY NEIGHBOR’S POLICE
The Hartford Courant reported last Friday that 27 police officers left the Hartford Police Department for suburban Hartford departments in the past year. Most of the ...
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Whither Wadsworth, Part II
All right. Let’s just say it up front and get it over with: The Wadsworth Atheneum is irrelevant. Last week I wrote an essay in response ...
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Whither Wadsworth
I applaud the Wadsworth Atheneum for the Board’s decision to, to, well, I’m not sure what it is they have decided to do. The Hartford Courant ...
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FIXING I-84
I had planned to write an essay about how Chubb’s offer to buy The Hartford reaffirms the end of Hartford’s reign as the insurance capital of ...
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ISN’T IT TIME TO END MUNICIPAL SEGREGATION IN GREATER HARTFORD?
Last week I posited an improbable hypothetical: The Connecticut General Assembly adopts a law providing that the state no longer will provide any education aid to ...
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