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If I had a hammer…

Luis — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:06:11 +0000

Helen Ubiñas’ damning commentary on the 2550 Main Street Academy raises more questions than answers. Mind you, not about the controversial columnist loathed, or feared, by those at 550 Main Street. (I once had a dept. head ask me to ask Helen to stay away from said person…shiiii…like I got that kinda pull? she called me [...]

Recipe for apathy

Luis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:56:28 +0000

Well…the 2009 Board of Elections are almost in the books and the city is a spinning with love. Well, not quite love, but there’s alot of emotion running around. It was, unfortunately, a typical Board of Education turnout from the voters…LOW. People who don’t know the system want to go ahead and blame the turnout on [...]

BoE Candidates Forum

Luis — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:23:59 +0000

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 some [...]

Working Families takes the lead by a nose…

Luis — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:39:48 +0000

Stardate: Wednesday, October 21 – The Hartford Courant endorses two of the three members of the Working Families slate for the November 3rd Board of Education elections. In total, along with two “also consider” candidates, there were five candidate endorsed by the Courant out of the 13 running. The third candidate endorsed by the Courant was [...]

Board of Education campaign starts to gear up

Luis — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:08:02 +0000

The most important election for the most thankless job in the city is finally starting to take hold. 13 Candidates are on the ballot for the November 3rd elections and for the first time in Hartford history (me thinks) there is no guarantee that the Democrat slate will garner the maximum amount of seats available to [...]

Dems pick three BoE candidates…

Luis — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:31:07 +0000

In a convention style meeting that rivaled any hilarity that the current City Council could muster, the Democratic Town Committee settled on which three candidates they will put up for Novembers Board of Education members, officially the most thankless job in the municipality. Voters get to vote for three and the top four get appointed. Currently [...]

New presence to old friends

Luis — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:15:37 +0000

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 for [...]

Mira takes on the Winch…

Luis — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:35:25 +0000

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 [...]

Trinity takes step backwards in Community involvement…

Luis — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:58:34 +0000

The above image represents William Burges‘s original plan for the campus of Trinity College, walled off from it’s surroundings…metaphorical? Maybe…

Decades have passed since Trinity College’s “beautification” efforts in Frog Hollow. A badly veiled attempt at closing itself off from it’s gang plagued surroundings, the efforts included closing off Vernon Street at Broad Street and [...]

I’m baaaaaackk…..

Luis — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 20:40:53 +0000

Mi gente…I’m back and have quite a bunch of emails / housekeeping issues to deal with but thanks to all for the comments on the previous posting. Needless to say that this upcoming election will be an interesting one.

I didn’t want another day to go by without putting something up. So here goes:

1) Kelvin, [...]