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By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:24:43 +0000

Well, you can check out The Hartford Guardian.com.

It used to be a quarterly publication but it’s online, daily now.

I like what it’s doing. And it used to cover the NorthEnd when it was in print. I suspect they will still do so.

BTW, love your site, man.

Ryan,
Hartford.

By: Freddie McInerney

Freddie McInerney — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:40:26 +0000

Hi there,
My name is Freddie McInerney and I work for TheaterWorks in Hartford. We run a gathering downtown every Monday evening from 5:30-7:30….we loosely call ourselves the Pearl Street League. Bin 228 comes by and brings wine and cheese. Its free, its fun, its casual.

This coming Monday the 20th we’d like to focus on Blogs. I wouldn’t exactly call this a Battle of the Blogs because we really are a happy group but we thought it would be fun to pull a bunch of bloggers together to help educate all of us about all of you. It seems like the blogs are the place where it all happens. We also have a tantalizing tidbit to reveal about our presence in downtown. So! We all need good news….hope you can join us!

Let me know if you can make it
Thanks
Freddie
729.1146

PS Please pass the invite on to all!

By: Barbara J. Ruhe

Barbara J. Ruhe — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:59:05 +0000

My name is Barbara J. Ruhe, I am running in the First District for the State Senate. This seat has been occupied by John Fonfara for the past 12 years–before that it was Bill DiBella. There has not been a challenger in this race for a number of years. Why? The registration is very lopsided and the split of the district between Hartford/Wethersfield has made it challenging to find some one to make a credible run. This election cycle is the debut of public financing. The goal of public financing is to get more people both voters and candidates involved. While I have been in involved in local and state politics for many years I have never before run for office–I do have my moments of wondering what possessed me to do this–seriously what possessed me is a belief that a two party system is vital, what is going on in local and state government is distressing and I am beyond furious at DCF. (In my day job I practice Family Law with my youngest brother and “advocate for children and the grownups who love them” who become entangled in DCF’s web.) I believe government should be open, responsive and practical. We have too many layers of bureaucracy, not enough transparency and too little investment in what I consider core services–services that positively affect people–we buy too many lights for football fields and don’t design services that actually work to enhance the public good. At the local and state level when there is talk or heaven forbid action to cut costs, the costs that get cut are not the wasteful costs, but the costs that get folks upset.

please visit my web site http://www.RuheForChange.com e-mail me if you have questions

I look forward to hearing from you.

Barbara J. Ruhe

By: Black Dahlia

Black Dahlia — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:11:06 +0000

ION could also be a nice play on words by Luis. EYE ON HARTFORD!

By: SgR

SgR — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:00:18 +0000

An ion is an atom or group of atoms with a net positive or negative electric charge.
Ions are essential to life.
There may be some health benefits by negatively charged ions in the environment, as they attract ions that are positively charged.

Ion may also refer to:
{Ion (window manager), in computing, a window manager for the X Window System.
{Saturn ION, an automobile sold by General Motors.
{Instituto Oncologico Nacional, or National Oncologic Institute, a specialized hospital in Panama City for cancer treatment.
{Ion (comics), in fiction, otherwise known as the Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, a DC Comics superhero.
{Ion (Marvel Comics), the super villain of Marvel Comics.
{Ion thruster, a type of propulsion system for space ships and satellites
{Ion is also a common male given name in the Romanian language, a variant of Ioan, e.g. Ion Iliescu and Ion Ţiriac.

In ancient Greece:
{Ion of Chios, a writer and philosopher.
{Ion (mythology), also called Ionas, the son of Xuthus and Creüsa, daughter of Erechtheus.
{Ion (dialogue), a dialogue by Plato, between Socrates and Ion, a reciter of poems
{Ion (play), a play by Euripides on the relationship between humans and the gods, in which Ion is instead the son of Apollo.