Vacuuming up the leaves

Is there anything more ridiculous than the West Hartford Taxpayers Association?
It demands that we cut, cut, cut and then, when cuts are made, it screams NO! NOT THAT!
For Judy Aron, its vice president, to tell The Hartfor Courant that eliminating curbside leaf  vacuum truck pickup is “a direct hit on our senior citizens” is both [...]

The budget debacle

There’s something seriously wrong if taxpayers have gunned two straight budgets by wide margins.
So what is it?
One could argue that the problem is that town leaders are simply trying to spend more money than residents are willing to support. This clearly has some truth to it, but it’s simplistic.
Another alternative is that people are struggling [...]

Let’s try this again. Really.

I know this place has been unreliable for months, not dead but not alive either. But after the resounding defeat of the budget once again this year, I do feel that we need somewhere to talk through these issues more seriously and with less partisanship than other sites seem to have.
So I’m going to try. [...]