Scott Slifka, lieutenant governor?

Scott Slifka
I barely know Dan Malloy or John DeStefano,the Democrats who hope to be governor, but I know them each enough to recognize they’d each be a vast improvement over our current grandmotherly, do-nothing Gov. Jodi Rell.
DeStefano seems the scrappier, dirtier, do-whatever-it-takes guy in the Democratic contest, which might give him the advantage for the August [...]

Rain, rain , go away

There's just been entirely too much rain this spring.

Student gets to go to graduation

Lisa Backus has a pretty good writeup in today’s West Hartford News about the goings-on in federal court in Bridgeport that led school officials to change their mind about letting Francisco Acevedo graduate with his Conard class Wednesday.
It’s pretty clear that Acevedo was a little too agitated while he taped a police officer manhandling a [...]

New senior center at Bishop’s Corner

Drove by today and saw that the addition to the library is nearly done. It looks pretty good. The town, and our seniors, should be happy. It’s a good spot for the center.

Suspending seniors at Hall

Oh, c’mon. They’re not going to let some seniors go to graduation because they tried to make a concrete 2006 in some grass outside the school?
I mean, it’s a lame prank, but they tried. That’s something. And they didn’t really hurt anyone or anything.
Sometimes I wonder what’s wrong with school administrators that they never seem [...]

Let the kids sleep more

I’m sorry the Board of Education won’t take a final vote until September on the plan to push back high school starting times, though I understand it’s probably the right thing to do.
I am so glad our town is finally getting on board with the idea that it’s crazy to start high school at 7:30 [...]

Crickets and cops

This story in the Courant is amazing. Some kids let crickets go in the Conard cafeteria for a prank, then a cop shows up and next thing you know they’re arresting the student council president for taking pictures of the whole mess? What kind of town are we living in?

What this town needs is a good blog…

I'm a loyal reader of the Courant, the West Hartford News, West Hartford Life and any other strange publication focused on our town that lands on my doorstep. I read the town's emails. I peruse the politicians' mailings. I sometimes even talk to a few of the people who run our town.
But I feel like I [...]