Rock for Rights!

Rock for Rights! 2007
Rock out, get educated, and change the world!
“Rock for Rights!” is a new organization targeting high school students in the West Hartford community.  The event on December 15th will be a fair to get students educated about some of the issues that plague our global society, as well as how they can [...]

What’s up with West Hartford’s closets?

I’m sort of afraid to peer too deeply into that funny old closet beside my dryer that I can’t open because the machine’s in the way.
After all, police found a kidnapped girl living in a closet under the stairs in a house in Elmwood not long ago. And now we find out that a doctor [...]

One big happy school district?

In yesterday’s Courant, Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez called for “a radical departure” to address the racial isolation that has helped keep his city’s students from greater academic success. He said that Hartford County, which exists only as a line on the map, should be one giant school district.
Forget the districts in West Hartford, Farmington, Simsbury, [...]

Davidoff the new minority leader

Leon Davidoff, who will become minority leader of the town council, is a complete unknown to me, and probably many others.
The Hartford Courant repors that he is “a veteran of the rough-and-tumble politics of neighboring Newington,” which is an odd qualification to help run West Hartford, but since we’re a welcoming sort of place, I don’t [...]

Kevin O’Connor moves up again

My Lord, how can somebody so fundamentally decent keep crawling up toward the top of that cesspool that is our nation’s capital? He could wind up as an attorney general, a Supreme Court judge or even something great. I’m proud of him.
He’ll make a fine associate attorney general. I hope he’ll bring some common sense [...]

So what will Visconti do now?

He didn’t even need my vote to capture one of the seats reserved for the losers. He snagged it anyway, no doubt to the dismay of the Democrats who will now have to deal with him all the time instead of just warring with him here.
One thing it will surely do is improve the TV [...]

Get to know the new St. Joseph prez

Here’s an interesting link that provides a real glimpse into Pamela Reid’s life.

Election Night

I can’t post the results so I hope somebody can jump in here and let us know the burning question…. Did Joe Visconti go down in flames?
In the end, I have to admit, I couldn’t fill his bubble. I hemmed. I hawed. And, finally, I passed him by. I wound up voting for a couple [...]