Entries from July 2007

July 29, 2007

Cheshire murders

I’ve been reading every scrap about this awful, awful massacre of Dr. William Petit’s wife and two daughters. It fills me with disgust, and worries me, too, because I can’t see that anyone screwed up in letting these two animals out on the streets. Despite criminal pasts, they’d never been charged with anything violent. They [...]

July 29, 2007

Dodged Visconti’s thugs and still alive

Yeah, I was back, rest and ready…. and then my computer(s) crapped out on me. We appear to be ok now — cross your fingers — and will be back in the saddle again here at the trusty West Hartford Blog.
Sorry for the troubled July on here. Let’s hope that it’s all in the past [...]

July 16, 2007

I’m tanned, rested and ready

Back from vacation and pleased to see that this little blog is flourishing in an odd sort of way despite my disappearance. I managed to post only twice when I stole a distant neighbor’s wireless signal on my laptop. Alas, it proved it too distant a signal most of the time, so I gave up.
But [...]

July 7, 2007

$188K for school boss

Well, I hope the man is worth it. Read the details here.
David Sklarz is getting a 3.5 percent pay hike that puts his salary on track to break $200K in another year or two. That’s hard to swallow when the district is doing things like cutting back on Quest and wiping out positions that would [...]