Hartford and the Region
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community
Let’s Talk About Regional Government
I recently attended the MetroHartford Alliance’s Pulse of the Region at Dunkin Park. It was a farewell event of sorts for Mayor Luke Bronin, and it got my regionalism juices flowing again. ...
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Talking Frankly about Taxes
A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay expressing my concern that commentators were encouraging us to believe that there is a “housing crisis.” I suspected that those commentators, and perhaps the ...
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Should Connecticut’s Governor Fix Local Problems?
Two recent opinion pieces about housing in the Hartford Courant caught my attention. One, by David Fink, was prominently displayed on December 29. The second, by House majority leader Jason Rojas, appeared ...
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Whither Stamford? Damned If I Know
A friend of mine wrote to me a few weeks ago, asking whether regional government could help turn Stamford into a major city, not just in Connecticut but in the northeast. I ...
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The Great Meadows
Ralph and I walk in the Great Meadows in Wethersfield and Rocky Hill. I don’t know much of anything about the Great Meadows, except that a Google search turns up the website ...
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Walks Along the River
My buddy Ralph and I have been taking occasional walks together. We’ve been looking for interesting but not to strenuous two- to three-mile routes around greater Hartford, in natural settings if we ...
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Leadership is Missing
A couple of my friends mentioned Tom Condon’s interview with Lyle Wray that was published in the Hartford Courant on Sunday. Wray Interview. I have a few reactions to what Wray had ...
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No Warehouses in My Backyard
The news from South Windsor this week demonstrated beautifully both how our town system of government frustrates real economic growth and why we never will change. The Hartford Courant reported Monday that ...
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Author: Mark Korber
Mark Korber is a semi-retired curmudgeon who can’t quite stop practicing law. He is known to his friends to have an opinion on most anything and to express it, in detail, to anyone who shows the slightest interest. He writes about regionalism, Hartford, family and the Buffalo Bills.