Category: Long Reads
14
Feb
50 Ways To Love Your City: 2021 Edition
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s a challenge to feel love at this time of year. There are days when the combination of unshoveled sidewalks and subzero windchills make something...
11
Feb
Asylum Hill Commentary Downtown Frog Hollow Hartford Long Reads No Drama Weather Parks Quality of Life Transportation Unsolicited Advice Winter
This Needs To Work
by Kerri Ana Provost
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There are days when all you can do is marvel at the depth of incompetence. On Tuesday, when I stepped out to clear what should...
04
Feb
You say Veoh, I Say Veo
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The question comes up here every so often, and at least annually on the local social media groups: “What’s the deal with VEO?” It’s asked...
03
Feb
What I Learned From Paying Attention to One Year of Pedestrian and Cyclist Deaths
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After intentionally and carefully observing for one year, there are a number of steps regular folks can take that would significantly reduce traffic fatalities and...
28
Jan
Activism Commentary Design Hartford Local News Long Reads Quality of Life Reader Tip Regionalism Transportation
Moving to Slow the Carnage
by Kerri Ana Provost
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After 2020's astounding and unforgivable death count -- at least 60 pedestrians and six cyclists lost their lives in Connecticut -- maybe this will be...
25
Jan
Want To Prevent Pedestrian Fatalities? Here’s One Thing You Can Do
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A minimum of 60 pedestrians and six cyclists were killed by motorists in this state in 2020. These were all preventable deaths.
21
Jan
Let the Sunshine In
by Kerri Ana Provost
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It’s like waking up after a long nightmare…while also realizing that elements from that bad dream do still exist and need to be addressed. There’s...
14
Jan
Patriot, and Other P-Words
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The T%$*p administration’s beginning was marked by worldwide protest in the millions, many wearing pink, knit hats. Pussy hats. The grievance: that holding the highest...
28
Dec
Commentary Community Covid-19 Cultural Interest Environmental Interest Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Long Reads
50 Ways to Love Your City (Bonus 2020 Edition)
by Kerri Ana Provost
2 Comments
I was going to hold off until Valentine’s Day to publish this, but I think we can all benefit now from being reminded of the...
24
Dec
Singing the Sidewalk Snow Removal Blues
by Kerri Ana Provost
1 Comment
When you are subjected to a litany of excuses, year-after-year, for why the plowing sucked. Sure, we have a pandemic this year, but what was...