Category: Quality of Life
12
Feb
Access to Jobs and School
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There continues to be silence from the City of Hartford when it comes to progress of the free WiFi that was supposed to be available...
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...
30
Jan
Access Asylum Hill Behind the Rocks Food Free Frog Hollow Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Quality of Life West End
24/7 Food Pantries
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The noodle bowl icons on this map show the approximate locations of the sites I know about. If there are any self-serve, 24/7 pantries missing,...
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...
25
Jan
Want To Prevent Pedestrian Fatalities? Here’s One Thing You Can Do
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A minimum of 60 pedestrians and six cyclists were killed by motorists in this state in 2020. These were all preventable deaths.
01
Dec
Access Commentary Construction Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Municipal Myth Busting Quality of Life Transportation
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in November 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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At least 52 pedestrians and six cyclists have been killed in collisions with motor vehicles in Connecticut this year.
08
Nov
Autumn Commentary Covid-19 Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Frog Hollow Get Outside Hartford History Long Reads Parks Progress Quality of Life Women
Sundays Are For Rambling
by Kerri Ana Provost
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...so here is a bit of rambling about how to experience relief, joy, disappointment, and relief all at once.
01
Nov
Access Activism Commentary Design Frog Hollow Hartford Local News Long Reads Quality of Life Reader Tip South Green Transportation West End
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in October 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Raquel Vasquez, just hours after killing Madeline Feliciano and critically injuring Oscar Ramos-Garcia at the intersection of Park and Washington in Hartford, was arrested and charged...
01
Oct
Access Activism Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Quality of Life Transportation Unsolicited Advice
Pedestrian Deaths Across Connecticut in September 2020
by Kerri Ana Provost
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On September 16 at 8:17 PM, a woman (who remains publicly unidentified several weeks later) was struck at 1310 Silas Deane Highway in Wethersfield. For...
26
Sep
Access Construction Frog Hollow Hartford Local News Long Reads Municipal Quality of Life Transportation
Russ Street: Slow Your Roll
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A day after the City of Hartford newsletter announced that changes would be “coming soon” to Russ Street, fiberglass planters were installed along the road,...