IonHartford

OK…so I skipped doorknocking to attend Tuesday night’s Mayoral forum. Who could resist. It’s like channel surfing and stopping to see Nascar racing for three minutes in hopes of seeing a crash. The possibilities of fisticuffs breaking out between the candidates individual posse’s are enormous. No such hilarities ensued but it [...]

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Damn!! My boy over at ¡Mira! Hartford has a scathing take on why people should NOT vote democratic. That link is here… He even talks about somebody mama!!
Damn Mira…you bad!!

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A couple links forwarded to me of some random mentions of la paloma sabanera which remind us what the bigger picture is. The first link here is regarding our 3rd anniversary party (pictured above) and the second is regarding the mural that was painted outside our store in our first summer.

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I was reading this opinion piece in the Times today and I was struck by the following sentence:
“County Executive Thomas Suozzi and Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey were so dismayed that they have refused to cooperate on further raids until ICE gets its act together.”
I thought for a second how wonderful it would be to [...]

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I went to a pretty inspirational march on Saturday (September 29) in support of the Jena 6 and in protest to overriding injustices in our present court system. I was particularly struck by the passion of Kamora Harrington, mother of an African American male and community activist. Of all the speakers either before [...]

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Our friend over at Urban Compass has a super duper detailed report on the ULI’s report to Hartford leaders here:
http://urbancompass.net/?p=673

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