Hartford and the Region
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community
PASSION
It was sometime around 1995, between periods at a Whalers-Bruins game in the Hartford Civic Center. I was standing in line outside the men’s room. Immediately behind me were two Whalers fans, ...
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REORGANIZING DOESN’T WORK
Over the course of my professional career, one thing that I came to understand is that administrative reorganization does not fix organizations. I saw it often: The members of an organization elect ...
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WHY ONE LARGE CITY GOVERNMENT WOULD BE BETTER
Better Services Would the Hartford region be better off with one large core city of, say, 300,000 people than the current municipal structure of a small city surrounded by ten independent towns, ...
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CHANGE
As I finished meandering through The Hartford Courant (Sunday, April 26, 2020), I had one lasting impression: It seems we are at one of those special points in world history, a time ...
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CAROLYN’S QUESTION
Carolyn and I love our house. We had lived in Glastonbury for close to 20 years when our daughter, our youngest child, went off to college. We began talking about downsizing to ...
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BE PROACTIVE
When will Hartford abandon its dysfunctional, balkanized local governance structure in favor of a unified collection of systems that optimizes efficiency and effectiveness while controlling cost? That is, if you believe how ...
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TRASH
A couple of months ago, the Connecticut MIrror published a lengthy article about Connecticut’s “struggle to move into the 21st century” with respect to the disposal of trash. The article was prompted ...
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START WITH THE END IN MIND
We are living through difficult times. COVID-19 threatens the lives of many of us. Our institutions, our systems, our governments and our people are struggling to respond to the threat. What I ...
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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.