It’s nice to see that West Hartford’s sophomores raised their scores in every category this year over last year’s performance.
Here’s the results:
MATH - 59.3 percent at goal this year compared to 56.8 last year
SCIENCE - 64.6 at goal this year compared to 63.9 last year
READING - 64 at goal this year compared to 62 last [...]
Years ago, long before my life turned to mowing grass and hanging curtains, I went to a cinema brewhouse where you could watch a bad movie and get soused at the same time. I dimly recall a bunch of drunken college students hooting at “Blue Lagoon” but perhaps that was at a plain old theater. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Trying to catch up with what Joe’s doing, I found these stories especially helpful:
Hartford Courant (April 29, 200
The Everyday Republican blog (May 2, 200
Bristol Blog (May 1, 200
Personally, I think Joe’s got no chance. But you have to love his fighting spirit.
Notice from the town… Just in case you were thinking of throwing raw meat in your back yard:
During the past week there have been three bear sightings in West Hartford. Bears are very active this time of year. They pose very little threat to residents, but DEP has issued the following recommendations to us:
1) Never [...]
Let me get this straight… the Courant has a story at the top of the front page saying that the Science Center whale isn’t going away? All because a Facebook user thought it might be leaving? It’s a strange, strange new world.
The West Hartford Taxpayers Association has decided that it will push for a budget referendum after all. According to the Courant, “the taxpayers’ group is asking that the town cut its 7 percent spending increase in half, to 3.5 percent.”
Is that a joke?
I can’t afford all these tax hikes either, but simply holding steady in [...]
I had no idea that West Hartford was the hometown of the scientist who developed chaos theory until the man was dead and gone.
Edward N. Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist, wrote the influential 1972 paper “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?”
The idea of chaos theory is that even [...]
