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Comment on The Idea of This Perfect Edenic Place by Kerri Provost

Kerri Provost — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:47:00 +0000

Matt,

Thanks for the kind feedback!

Comment on The Idea of This Perfect Edenic Place by Matt Poland

Matt Poland — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:39:19 +0000

Kerri: I love and appreciate your writing about our city. Thank you for doing what you do so well. Matt

Comment on Whose Interests Are We Guarding? by Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:03:15 +0000

Well here is one for you. My partner Tim always walks to work downtown using Capitol Ave. and crosses from the Supreme Court side to the Capitol. Both of us do not trust any drivers, rather be safe than sorry, so we always push the walk button and wait. He did so around 8 AM two weeks ago. Walk light on he proceeded to cross. Well low and behold who come barreling through a clearly marked red light and walk light but Edith Prauge. Almost hit him. That crossing he tells me is a very dangerous one. I guess some drivers don’t know a red light or a cross light. Times like that I wish I had a bazooka.

I told him he should have called the Capitol police, the state police and anyone else and filed a complaint against her. Maybe she needs her eyes tested (for everyones saftey,) maybe she was in a rush, maybe she doesn’t stop for nobody. After all she is Ms. Important now isn’t she and a workers life, oh well.

But the “oh I don’t want to cause trouble for her she does so many good things for all of us, the she is more important than others, we are glad we have her up there on the hill, I stopped on time and wasn’t hurt took over him.” She can be glad it wasn’t me that she almost sent on to my reward that AM, as I do not suffer criminal drivers lightly.

Comment on Whose Interests Are We Guarding? by Kerri Provost

Kerri Provost — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:20:47 +0000

Mat,
You know, as I tried to come up with some legitimate reason for Vail to be asked to stop, the only thought I had that fit this category was exactly the point your are making. My understanding, though, is that parents made the complaints, and not the crossing guards or their union. I doubt the kvetching parents were concerned about whether or not a volunteer was messing anything up for the paid guards.

Comment on Whose Interests Are We Guarding? by Mat

Mat — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:41:17 +0000

I don’t know this to be true, but city crossing guards are unionized, and unions usually don’t like it when someone does their job for free. See, e.g., http://biggovernment.com/libertychick/2010/02/11/union-bosses-target-86-yr-old-volunteer-crossing-guard/

Comment on Dish by EmGee

EmGee — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:17:18 +0000

Totally agree on the prices at Dish. I think the food is overall great and I like what’s been done with the space, but I don’t understand how Dish justifies setting its prices at Max Downtown levels. I always make a meal out of appetizers now, unless that delicious tomato-cheese pie thing calls my name too strongly. I used to eat there a bit when I was living downtown because I got a discount, but haven’t been there much since I moved out of the apartment.

Comment on Dish by kerri provost

kerri provost — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:25:06 +0000

I had no luck getting decent pictures of the food

Comment on Dish by Cami

Cami — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:51:58 +0000

sounds absolutely delicious!

Comment on real snow by Kerri

Kerri — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:18:11 +0000

Thanks, Richard!

The Valentine’s Tree is still up in full force. I expect it’ll be decorated with St. Patrick’s Day items soon.

I like moving at the slower pace, on foot or by bike. So much more is revealed about the world.

Comment on Proposed Land Use for Hartford’s Neighborhoods by richard

richard — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:41:27 +0000

After another terrible accident on the stretch of road from Park Terrace to Bartmolomew let’s hope someone comes up with some plan for it. People use that road as a speedway and one has to be very careful when out walking or crossing the Park Street.