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Hartford does Debates coverage

Luis — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:22:33 +0000

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…

Luis — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:17:21 +0000

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Best Weekend EVER….

Luis — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:48:49 +0000

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 [...]

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 [...]

The future of The Courant is all in the Dot

Luis — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:05:58 +0000

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 share, [...]

Hartford Courant to lay even more people off

Luis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:40:42 +0000

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 make [...]

Ironic image of the week

Luis — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:16:52 +0000

As reported by the Hartford Courant, Pedro Segarra has joined two other Hartford Councilors in calling for the removal of Councilman Calixto Torres as President of Hartford’s Court of Common Council. The above image from dividedwefail.org offers an eerie, ironic look into the past when three Puerto Ricans symbolized how far a community had come. The [...]

Marshall House funding slowly coming together

Luis — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:48:42 +0000

On Wednesday, December 17, board members of The Knox Foundation, approved a grant to The Salvation Army’s Marshall House in the amount of $2,500 to be used for operation of the temporary shelter for women and children. This is added to the $33,000 already committed by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the (ahem) $1,000 [...]