As the World Turns aka NASCAR night at City Hall

Well…I promised not to write about this but I’m feeling like Al Pacino in Godfather VIII, “I try to get out, but they keep pulling me back in!”  To get caught up…check out my tweets at http://twitter.com/CouncilorCotto.

So…we have a new Democratic Town Chair in Jean Holloway this evening after a drama filled evening at City [...]

BoE Candidates Forum

Dateline: October 27, 2009 – 11 Candidates for the Hartford Board of Education elections came together for, what all reports say was, one of the most successful of such forums held at the Library’s X Room.  I had my Tuesday evening Civic Leadership course with CCNE and was kinda bumming as I wanted to hear [...]

New presence to old friends

Long over due props need to goto the folks over at the Hartford Independent Media Collective.  For a number of months now they have moved over to their new online presence…and it is snaaaaaazyyyyy.

My experience working in DC opened my eyes to the world of more progressive / radical thought in the states.  I DJ’d [...]

Watch the inauguration live!! Here!!

Thanks to Hulu.com, one can come to ionhartford.com and watch the inauguration of the century.

Let the accountability begin…

Score one for pro-immigration forces

Star date July 2007, New Haven enacts a resident ID card which is made available to all New Haven residents regardless of their immigration status. The database containnig all names are requested through an FOI request by the Journalist Chris Powell and He-who-shall-not-be-named aka Dustin Gold (pictured at left). The matter is taken [...]

HIMC video page and Jena 6 Video

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 [...]