Hartford and the Region
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community
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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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 departing officers said they were leaving ...
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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 to the news that the Atheneum’s ...
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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 reported Sunday that the Atheneum wants ...
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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 the country. As of this writing ...
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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 any municipality whose population is under ...
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RACIAL SEGREGATION IN WEST HARTFORD AND BLOOMFIELD
The Hartford Courant did the community a great service Sunday morning, publishing an above-the-fold investigative story headed “How two towns illustrate racial divide.” West Hartford is mostly white. The article is largely ...
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LOONEY REDUX
Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney from New Haven once again this year has proposed changes in state-funded school construction reimbursement rates. By reducing reimbursement to some of Connecticut’s smallest towns, Looney‘s ...
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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.