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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

$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 [...]