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The following is from a friend of a friend who lives in Alaska giving his two cents on Sarah Palin.  He is a High School principal just for context regarding his concerns on public education.

Good evening, lots of friends and relatives have been asking me (as an Alaskan) what I think of Sarah Palin, our Governor, and new choice for McCain as a VP candidate.

Here it goes:

This pick floored me.  Sarah Palin is a nice person.  I’ve met her, I’ve even talked to her for a few minutes at a principal’s conference a couple of years ago.  She has lots going for her superficially.   She speaks from the heart, like a spitfire mother; she can even be sort of funny sometimes.  She is quite beautiful;  athletic, and has that radiant glow of someone who actually spends time doing things outside.  Unlike many politicians, she has lived a “real life” and done things that few living and working in DC could ever do….like dipnettin’ fish, shootin’ stuff and eating it out on the tundra, and havin’ 5 kids.

Personally, I’d never vote for her.  [Read more →]

photo courtesy of Mira Hartford

Our friends over at Mira Hartford has a very relevant, albeit brief, critique on the proponderance of advertissments of the political variety during this political season.

I would say a big AAAAmen to that my brotha from anotha motha.  Political signs are a fact of life and politicians (myself include) need to have their feet held to the fire when they are irresponsible with both the placing and removing of said signs.  But this recent primary season saw the advent of a particular political sign which truly harms the aesthetics of the city:  the wheat pasted poster, particularly the flock put out by Edwin Vargas in his run against John Fanfara.

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Never was jazz more needed than this past Wednesday evening.  After a long day at city hall which ended with the quintessential political submarine attack, myself, Mercy and Angelito went home and prepared to call it a day.  We had plans to meet friends for an evening of food and literature at a reunion meeting of Living and Learning in el Barrio but I just wasn’t up for it.  Than I remembered that my bud Ed Fast was playing his first evening at The Firebox down on Broad Street.

That’s right…Broad Street. [Read more →]

Primary season has been somewhat quiet here in the land of steady habits.  That should change the closer we get to primary day (August 12)

Til then chew on this bit of morsal from CTNewsJunkie.com regarding our own Marie Kirkley Bey and Abe Giles.

Link is here…

I think that one of the many reasons I love Hartford is the one default attribute always thrown around in such conversations: it’s distance to New York City. Boston is also used in the discussion but I get really bad “Everybody Loves Mary” type of acne every time I get near that dirty water sippin, hahvad yahd pahking, sucky red sox rootin city. Regardless, for as much as I love the big manzana, I realized that in the past two to three years I’ve probably only made the trip once or twice. So, being ripe for a spontaneous invitation, I was ecstatic to receive and accept an invitation to go with a dear friend to Manhattan for a surprise B-day pahty, uh sorry…party for a friend of hers. [Read more →]

Our buddy Ken Krayeske from the 40 Year Plan has the lowdown on local Latino Leader Kelvin Roldán and a fundraiser held for him and aspiring local Latino Leader Hector Robles.  Both of these local Latino Leaders chose to support a local Latino hangout in their neighborhoods for this event….NOT!  The fund raiser was held at The Wood N Tap, deep in the Hart of Minnie Neighborhood.

The best part of the piece is Ken finding it hard to believe that someone at the capitol does not know him :-)  What’s a brother gotta do to get some recognition up in this piece!!??  Well…they know him now.

Here’s the link to the piece…