Hartford and the Region
Thoughts about the strength, vitality and growth of our community
INACTION HAS A PRICE
A friend of mine sent me this link to a Ted Talk from 2015. Maybe you’ve seen it. It’s Bill Gates talking about the 2020 virus. Well, no he didn’t predict the ...
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GOVERNANCE, I-91 NORTH AND THE BUFFALO BILLS
Author’s note: I wrote and planned to publish an optimistic commentary on the covid-19 situation (some might have called it Pollyannaish). Then I considered writing about a series of interesting and pessimistic ...
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BREAKING NEWS: CORONAVIRUS IGNORES TOWN BOUNDARIES
The coronavirus is the topic du jour, and with good reason. The pandemic is affecting our lives in ways we hadn’t imagined just a few weeks ago. Meetings are being canceled, schools ...
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SHARED SERVICES ON DISPLAY
The Metropolitan District Commission was in the news again this week. Well, that makes it sound like they’re in the news a lot, and they’re not. One of the several things that ...
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TRIBALISM
Tribalism is a natural human behavior. Over millions of years, humans evolved to exhibit a variety of behaviors that support living in something bigger than the basic family unit. Large groups of ...
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MY GROWTH STRATEGY
For a couple of weeks I’ve been thinking and writing about doubling the population of greater Hartford over the next 25 years, and I’m back to a core question: what is, or ...
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REDOUBLE
Last week I wrote about David Lehman’s remark that the population of Connecticut’s cities should double in 25 years. David Lehman is the Governor’s economic development chief. This week I discuss some ...
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DOUBLE?
David Lehman, Governor Ned Lamont’s economic development chief, recently proposed that Connecticut’s objective should be to double the population of its cities in 25 years. The notion begs so many questions 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.