Hartford lawyer and developer Eliot Gersten just made a profit off of our architectural heritage. Mr. Gersten apparently inherited the large, brown building on the corner of Park and Washington Streets from his late father, who passed in 2006. Gersten...

Antwan Byrd, inmate #220707, lives in the Cheshire Correctional Institute. Mr. Byrd, now 36, was convicted of the January 17, 2008 murder of 31-year-old Lavias Phillips.  Byrd claimed he acted in self-defense during a street fight near Phillips’ family’s home...

Lo, I am dismayed. I have spent years of my life fighting to change the prohibition against marijuana. I’ve written about it, protested over it, ran political campaigns to change the law. Heck, it could even be said my advocacy...

Dear Congressman Courtney – I want to applaud you for taking a stand on student loan debt.  You seem to be everywhere on the issue, sponsoring bills like H.R. 3826 to prevent interest rates from doubling and responding to stupid...

I The Connecticut Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Section sponsored a legislative breakfast Wednesday morning, April 11, 2011 at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. Our law office has an intern from England visiting, and I thought it would be a...

This was the way the Haddam land swap ended, not with a bang, but a whimper. To stretch the T.S. Eliot allusions a little more, for those members of Riverhouse Properties, LLC, April is the cruelest month. On April 3,...

Hartford’s outgoing state representative Marie Kirkley-Bey might have done at least one good thing this year: co-sponsoring House Bill 5546, an Act Concerning Sentence Modification for Juveniles. This columnist has long seen discrimination against youth as one of the next...

Last week, I answered the first part of this Hartford query: “Strategic Policy Partnership, the firm assisting the City of Hartford to recruit its new Police Chief, is seeking input from residents.  Please consider the following two questions.  1) What...

From an email floating among the cognoscenti in Hartford yesterday: “Strategic Policy Partnership, the firm assisting the City of Hartford to recruit its new Police Chief, is seeking input from residents.  Please consider the following two questions.  1) What qualities...

Okay, let’s get this straight. You are going to be known for what you do, and one part of doing is speaking. If you say something stupid, people are going to know that you are stupid. For example, if you...