Hartford does Debates coverage

Last night (July 14, 2010) the Hartford Public Library hosted a candidates debate for the upcoming state representative and senate primaries on August 10th.

So far, two outlets have coverage.

Check out The Hartford Courant article here…

and Real Hartford has their detailed [...]

Cohen coming into his own…

Many people remember Jeff Cohen who, although having a couple years under his belt with the Courant, made his mark as the main contributor to the Courant’s Cityline blog.  Jeff went on to NPR to become their city reporter and, although his main duty is via audio files, he has established an online presence [...]

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 some [...]

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 to them (3) via city charter. Continue reading Board of Education campaign starts to gear up

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 fair city.

Well, this weekend I will be involved with 3 events that are soooo kick@$$ that not even my own crappy sense of fairness can stop it.  Yes people, I now give to you (drum roll) THE BEST WEEKEND EVER!!!

Continue reading The Best Weekend EVER….

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 for a wonderful low power radio station in Columbia Heights and learned about the Indy Media movement from the DC Indymedia peeps.  I was so enraptured by the experience that I came back ready to start my own…but there was one already here! Continue reading New presence to old friends