Category: Commentary
12
Mar
Access Commentary Food Frog Hollow Hartford Myth Busting Parkville Shopping Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Thinking About Food
by Kerri Ana Provost
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I feel like the last four years, the ones during the T$%#p administration, were largely defined by this conflict of perspective: those who, despite all...
10
Mar
As Seen on Oak Street
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Outside the Connecticut Education Association headquarters on Oak Street is Marilyn Parkinson Thrall’s Sandy Hook Memorial, which makes me these days think about not Newtown,...
06
Mar
Small Step Forward for Pedestrian Safety
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Last week H.B. 5429 made it out of committee. (We can talk about the irony of gridlock when it comes to progressive action on transportation...
04
Mar
Commentary Cultural Interest Downtown Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford Long Reads Nothing To Do Nowhere To Go Parkville Unsolicited Advice
Art, Artists, and Attribution
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There’s this strange trend showing up, primarily on Instagram, of people asking/demanding that muralists get tagged on social media — even if the artists’ names...
03
Mar
Something Old, Something New
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you haven’t been to Park and Park Terrace lately, you might not have noticed the new housing installed over the last year. Unlike the...
11
Feb
Asylum Hill Commentary Downtown Frog Hollow Hartford Long Reads No Drama Weather Parks Quality of Life Transportation Unsolicited Advice Winter
This Needs To Work
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There are days when all you can do is marvel at the depth of incompetence. On Tuesday, when I stepped out to clear what should...
03
Feb
What I Learned From Paying Attention to One Year of Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After intentionally and carefully observing for one year, there are a number of steps regular folks can take that would significantly reduce traffic fatalities and...
01
Feb
Think Beyond Cars
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This top photo shows Park Terrace, southbound. The building on the left is an elementary school — Burns — and to the right of the...
28
Jan
Activism Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Quality of Life Reader Tip Regionalism Transportation
Moving to Slow the Carnage
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After 2020's astounding and unforgivable death count -- at least 60 pedestrians and six cyclists lost their lives in Connecticut -- maybe this will be...
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