Current Author: Mark Korber
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community.
Goodbye, GOP
Why am I no longer a Republican? I know, many of you think that’s the wrong question. The correct question, you say, is “why were you ...
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REASONS FOR OPTIMISM
I was talking to a friend the other day about racism. He is pessimistic and discouraged. He understands now how deeply embedded racism is in our ...
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Trump Brought Out the Anti-Racist in Many of Us
By way of background, I read Mark’s blog on white supremacy and then wrote him an email suggesting that while he was correct, he was missing ...
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THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN
For weeks, over and over, people said the election was stolen. Many of us have been baffled by such assertions. How can so many people honestly ...
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STEFANOWSKI
Give Bob Stefanowski credit for getting one thing right: Connecticut’s cities have major problems. Other than that, this guy who seems to still want to be ...
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Finally
Through all those years of futility, years without division titles or playoff appearances, years without respect, years of frustration, I never thought about a game where ...
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THE NEXT NEW WORLD
Our country was founded on a simple but profound principle: That free people will build a new world, a better world. There was no way that ...
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RACISM ISN’T A POLITICAL PROBLEM
We should get one thing straight: Racism is a cultural problem, not a political problem. Racism isn’t about Democrat and Rebublican, and it isn’t about passing ...
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IT’S TIME TO LISTEN
I find I keep having the same conversation with people. It’s a conversation about the great divide in the United States, the gulf between right and ...
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IF YOU WANT TO END RACISM AND STUFF YOU GOT TO SING LOUD
And that's what it is, the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacree Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it comes ...
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