Watch West Hartford’s candidates debate on TV

In the coming days, the local public access channel is sponsoring a number of debates on channel 5 that will give us a chance to see the candidates in action, for better or worse. Since we’ll never learn anything about the races from any of the local papers, it’s a good idea to watch if you can.
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Those darn, drunk college presidents

Back when I went to college — not so long ago — the possibility of drunken students slapping into parked cars while they swerved back and forth along the road was all too real. But nowadays, it’s not the students we have to worry about. It’s the college presidents.
The other night, according to the Courant, [...]

Courant’s owner bares its teeth

The Tribune Co., which owns The Hartford Courant, abruptly fired the publisher of another of its papers today for daring to stand up against more drastic staff reductions. Jeffrey Johnson, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, got canned for defying executives who ordered him to make more big cuts in the paper’s budget. Another journalistic [...]