Category: Unsolicited Advice
04
Jan
New Year, New Job
by Kerri Ana Provost
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If you started the new year resolving to leave your job in a highly dramatic manner (see profanity-laced how-to video below), prepare for your next...
26
Dec
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Top Stories of 2010
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Here are the top twelve items of interest on Real Hartford, judging by which posts were read the most and over the longest period of...
01
Dec
Supporting the Local Community and Economy
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This holiday shopping season, I have seen the phrase and concept “buy locally” appropriated. People are beginning to describe shopping at the Wal-Mart in town...
28
Oct
Fulfilling Your Materialistic Desires for the Holiday Season
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Already stores are beginning to stock Christmas items. Readers who wish to participate should know that this post is an unabashed effort to steer you...
21
Oct
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Dear Search Engine,
by Kerri Ana Provost
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I check blog statistics not so much to see what the numbers are, but to find out how people manage to wind up here. Mostly,...
17
Oct
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Crude Oil: Dependence and Consequences
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice held their sixth annual conference at the UConn School of Business on Saturday, October 16th. There were two keynote...
07
Oct
Free Self Defense
by Kerri Ana Provost
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True Colors — a Hartford-based organization — is sponsoring a free self defense class for LGBT youth. This program runs for six weeks and will...
29
Jul
Mapping Our Issues
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There is a reason for “putting it in writing.” A phone call does not provide the permanent type of record that a letter or an...
26
Jul
Councilor Cotto’s Fireside Chats
by Kerri Ana Provost
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You might want to hold off until October to watch these, or at least sit in a very air conditioned room. What committee meetings are...
12
Jul
What’s Wrong with this Picture?
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s a little nauseating how frequently people whine about how the City can not do X,Y, and Z because of budget constraints. Obviously, we do...