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 [...]

Board of Education campaign starts to gear up

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 [...]

The Best Weekend EVER….

I normally do not use this space to advertise/promote/highlight things that I personally am involved with.  Seems kinda unfair so it’s my own type of self censureship.  Normally I try to highlight good things in the city as well as complaining about things that I feel might not be for the overall goodness of our [...]

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 [...]

The future of The Courant is all in the Dot

As posted earlier this week, The Hartford Courant will go through another unfortunate round of layoffs.  The announcement will most likely be made this upcoming week and the cuts look like their going to be very aggressive and very quick.

I have to say that as far as blame goes, although Tribune Corp takes the lions [...]

Hartford Courant to lay even more people off

Hartford Courant

I was just on the Hartford’s Courant cool new blog Cityline.  Three of the five posts had something to do with the Courants favorite money maker, Mayor Eddie Pérez.  Eddie is stepping down from two boards, Ada Miranda wants to be BOE Chair, and our favorite “I hate Hartford so much I’m gonna [...]