A .pdf of this letter to the Federal Communications Commission with all its attachments is Here.     October 1, 2014 Mr. Tom Wheeler, Chairman Mr. Michael O’Reilly, Commissioner Ms. Mignon Clyburn, Commissioner Ms. Jessica Rosenworsel, Commissioner Mr. Ajit...

Sometimes, covering the city of Hartford, I feel like I write the same story over and over again. It’s like things change, but they stay the same. We may get a new layer of asphalt on the road, but they...

Good: Gov. Dan Malloy has proposed that the state should hire single mothers to take their children to preschool. It is about time an elected official stood up for single mothers and addressed a component of the poverty cycle. Bad:...

Mayor Pedro Segarra must think it is unfair when people call him a liar, or worse. After all, he claims to act in the best interests of the city. But to 30 or so resident on South Marshall Street, Mayor...

The stadium and development for North Downtown sought by Mayor Pedro Segarra is nothing short of perpetuating institutional racism, if you listen to Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report. This isn’t because the Mayor is a fire breathing racist,...

Disclosure: I am an active participant in the Hartford Coalition to Stop the Stadium. Since the Rock Cats business is all about sports, let’s keep score. My favorite sign from the march and rally by the Hartford Coalition to Stop...

  The public never wins in a public-private partnership. So when Mayor Pedro Segarra recasts his $60 million stadium bonding project as a public-private partnership, know it is the same stinking, rotten theft of public dollars. Make no mistake: Mayor...

Brazil built 13 stadiums for the World Cup. Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva called for a “Green World Cup.” Brazil tracked the carbon emissions of every construction project under the Agenda for a Sustainable World Cup. Hartford now wants...

Last week, I wrote big-time baseball was a game run by billionaires for millionaires. I homered saying baseball was run by billionaires, but I whiffed on the implication that minor league baseball players are well paid. First, let’s point out...

Of all the bad ideas Mayor Pedro Segarra has proposed, and this list is long, bringing minor league baseball to downtown Hartford sits at the top. The deal, the best I can tell from news reports, is that Hartford will...