Hartford and the Region
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THE POLITICO
The other day a friend of mine called me a politico. I quickly disabused him of that notion. I’ve had other people suggest I should run for office. Believe me, that is ...
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WHY ONE LARGE CITY WOULD BE BETTER
Savings One large city would provide more cost-effective government. It’s easy to say that one large city government for greater Hartford could be operated more cost-effectively than the City of Hartford and ...
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HOW DO WE GET THERE FROM HERE?
In a comment to one of my essays in this series, my friend Paul said this: “No quarrel from me with the abstract notion that a unified regional government would work better. ...
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THANKSGIVING
Thanksgiving 1819 Central Connecticut, November 1819: The crops have been harvested and the fall canning is under way. Father is hurrying to finish repairs to house and barn before winter arrives. Mother ...
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BUFFALO WANTS ME BACK
As some of you know, I was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. I haven’t lived there for nearly 50 years, but due to an unhealthy interest in the Buffalo Bills ...
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WHY ONE LARGE CITY GOVERNMENT WOULD BE BETTER
The Human Cultural Laboratory 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 ...
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LET’S FACE IT
Did you see the New York Times article the other day about how Tulsa has proposed to divide its school system into several separate, free-standing school districts, each with its own Board ...
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LOUISVILLE – LESSONS LEARNED
Last week several of my friends sent me the link to Tom Condon’s excellent piece in the CT Mirror about how Louisville and Jefferson County merged to form the Louisville-Jefferson County Metro ...
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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.