Comments (10) Toni Gold, resident and one of the panelists at this morning’s forum on transportation, commented that the POCD must be less timid and more aggressive if it is to be successful. The packed house of audience participants seemed to agree with her. Continue reading 'Hartford’s Plan of Conservation and Development Must Be More Aggressive'»
After a few days away, I returned to find obnoxious (but fairly routine) comments littering the Topix forum that one is routed to from the online Hartford Courant.
On my trip, I was thinking about civic pride and the need for community and cooperation between neighboring towns. I am not talking about these qualities on a political level, but on a personal level. There is community here, within the city, but it’s not something that gets much press. Crime and corruption are made public. Poverty and illiteracy are treated as mascots for my city.
What does not make the news are the minutiae.
One Friday night I gathered with a half dozen women to eat local pizza in the host’s dining room. We wolfed down three pizzas and laughed. Nobody got shot or stabbed.
Last week, I ventured with a friend and two of her children to Colt Park. We were hoping to catch a women’s rugby game. Though it seemed to be canceled, we picked up some delicious goodies from Modern Pastry, watched runners cross the finish line at the Hartford Marathon in Bushnell Park, and then headed to La Paloma Sabanera for an actual lunch. At the coffee house, we ran into more friends. Again, nobody got shot or stabbed.
Continue reading 'Words vs. Pictures'»
HARTFORD: Leaders from the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities–representing nearly a dozen towns and cities–held a news conference today in the Legislative Office Building to discuss “legislative priorities for the 2009 General Assembly session” and to explain how their respective towns and cities are being affected by the economic crisis. Their message was clear– the State of Connecticut needs to immediately accept regionalism as a way to maintain services and create revenue. Present at the conference: Elizabeth Paterson (Mayor of Mansfield and President of Connecticut Conference of Municipalities), John DeStefano (Mayor of New Haven), William Finch (Mayor of Bridgeport), Eddie Perez (Mayor of Hartford), Scott Slifka (Mayor of West Hartford), Melody Currey (Mayor of East Hartford), Sebastian Giuliano (Mayor of Middletown), Richard Moccia (Mayor of Norwalk), Mary Glassman (First Selectman of Simsbury), Laura Francis (First Selectman of Durham), Susan Bransfield (First Selectman of Portland), and James J. Finley, Jr. (Connecticut Conference of Municipalities Executive Director and CEO).
Bridgeport Mayor Finch expressed the severity of his city’s economic woes. In order to remain solvent, they had to borrow money. This was even with mass layoffs in the city. Finch explained that “Bridgeport is a couple blizzards away from bankruptcy.” Continue reading '“In Connecticut, We Don’t Act Until There’s a Crisis”'»
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