HARTFORD — Democratic candidate for governor, Dannel Malloy was scheduled to stop by Hartford’s North End Senior Center on Coventry Road today to “meet with seniors and share his plans for supporting our elderly population as Governor.” He didn’t. When told of the news by a reporter, the director of the center, Karen Bailey Addison, said: “Really? I’m [...]
Click here to read Judge Susan Bolton’s injunction. PHOENIX — U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton today blocked the most controversial parts of Arizona’s new immigration law, which goes into effect tomorrow. The judge blocked the provisions that required officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws; that required immigrants to carry their papers [...]
HARTFORD – Calling Hartford one of the most beautiful cities in the country, Mayor Pedro E. Segarra announced a comprehensive greening effort to clean, revitalize and sustain the Capital City’s historic parks. In joining the national celebration of Parks by the National Parks Service, Hartford’s “Week of the Parks” will take place August 23-28th but the efforts that happen leading [...]
News Report, Earl Ofari Hutchinson Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele has repeatedly snapped back at the charge that the GOP is racist, harbors racist elements, and plays the race card. On occasion, he has loudly said that the RNC must embrace diversity and be a big tent that includes minorities. Every time he opens his [...]
Fox News, and the gaggle of rightside bloggers, and assorted tea party activists were delirous when they dug up an old tape of Shirley Sherrod. The Agriculture Department’s director of rural development in Georgia was supposedly getting caught with her racism hanging down. The tape was of a speech Sherrod made at a local NAACP banquet [...]
27 July 2010
HARTFORD — A local man was arrested yesterday and charged for allegedly molesting a 10-year-old boy in Pope Park. The suspect, Brian Wright, of 70 Gillett St., Apartment C-10, was charged with first degree criminal attempt at kidnapping, first degree of unlawful restraint, risk of injury to a minor, third degree sexual assault, first degree criminal [...]
26 July 2010
EAST HARTFORD — A Hartford woman reported missing last week has been found. Taleshe Smith, 20, who was reported missing by her family, was found in East Hartford. Smith, who was last seen on July 15, is alive, police said. ast seen on July 15. Smith reportedly was known to frequent the Northend of Hartford specifically the area [...]
25 July 2010
Pay raises for a few top executives in the Connecticut State University System has caught the attention — and the wrath– of Gov. Jodi Rell. Ealier this week, Rell call on the Board of Trustees for CSUS to rescind so-called “pay equity” raises that increased salaries by 10 percent or more for the CSUS chancellor and university [...]
23 July 2010
HARTFORD – An Enfield man was arrested for a 2009 homicide at Vibz night club on Main Street. Hartford Police arrested Antwan Sease, 21, of 57 New King Street, Enfield. He was charged with felony murder, murder, conspiracy to commit murder, first degree robbery, first degree conspiracy to commit robbery and rriminal use of a firearm. The incident happened on Oct. [...]
19 July 2010
HARTFORD — The city is among 24 towns awarded $1.8 million to buy emergency generators for their local emergency shelters and operations centers. Hartford received $259,331 from the federal homeland security funds to buy emergency generators to address needs during the hurricane season. A total of 50 applications were received in the competitive grant process. Grant award winners in the [...]
16 July 2010
HARTFORD – Detectives of the Hartford Police Department’s Juvenile Investigative Division are searching for a missing female last seen on July 15. The missing girl, Taleshe Smith, is a 20-year old, light-skinned black female with brown hair and brown eyes and is about a 5’1” and 95 pounds. She is known to frequent the Northend of Hartford specifically the [...]
15 July 2010
HARTFORD – Corporation Counsel John Rose is out and a former city staffer is back. Mayor Pedro Segarra has appointed former Hartford city manager Saundra Kee Borges as corporation counsel, the city’s chief attorney. After an eight-year absence, Borges will return on July 19. She was the city manager under former Mayor Mike Peters from 1993-2002 and was [...]
15 July 2010
HARTFORD – Special help is on the way to children faced with the social economic and psychological impact of the deep recession. Thanks to a new law signed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell today. The new law – House Bill 5360, An Act Concerning Children in the Recession – is a provision that makes, among other things, attending a two- [...]
