Category: Quality of Life
01
Feb
Asylum Hill Downtown Hartford Local News Long Reads Myth Busting Quality of Life Unsolicited Advice West End
Would You Like to be Arrested for Utter Bullshit in Hartford? Here’s How To Make That Happen!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Let’s suppose there was a recent proposal to reduce your organization’s budget by 21%. Your organization had been criticized for a lack of transparency. Let’s...
05
Jan
Car-Free Diaries: Week Five
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Instead of screaming into the void of Twitter, I bring you a weekly highlight reel of what it’s like going places in Greater Hartford when...
28
Jul
Asylum Hill Commentary Cultural Interest Downtown Food Free Frog Hollow Fun Get Outside Ghost Town Hartford Music Myth Busting Parks Quality of Life Summer Transportation West End
Dispatches from the Alleged Ghost Town (Volume 34)
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Thankful for frozen treats on 90° days Thanks to these young people for serving as a collective pace car, deterring motorists from speeding down Park...
23
Jul
Your Kind of Place
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This mural, painted by Jillian Goeler, is a welcome addition to Capitol Avenue, making the boarded up storefront seem like a place one would want...
11
Jun
Access Activism Commentary Community Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Free Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Local News Municipal Quality of Life Transportation
Better Than Dwelling on What’s Broken
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Not feeling that heatwave? Scowling over a tripping hazard? There is a constructive way to help shape how our city looks and functions. Planting trees,...
27
May
Activism Cultural Interest Education Environmental Interest Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Long Reads Municipal Quality of Life Regionalism Unsolicited Advice
Recycling: Not a New Problem
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Several decades ago, all adolescents (nobody was a “tween” at this time) were herded into the school cafeteria for an assembly so corny that the...
17
May
Access Cultural Interest Downtown Environmental Interest Fun Get Outside Hartford Progress Quality of Life
Nurturing Possibility
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Over the last year, Hartford has apparently rebranded itself as a place that has public art — and not just sculptures on a weird raised...
23
Apr
Access Asylum Hill Construction Cultural Interest Design Environmental Interest Hartford Hartford's Neighborhoods Local News Progress Quality of Life Transportation
More Housing
by Kerri Ana Provost
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No, this is not a rerun. The NINA construction at 86-88 Hawthorn has completed and is filled with homeowners. This is 80-82 Hawthorn Street, next...
22
Apr
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Earth Day 2021: Action
by Kerri Ana Provost
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We’ve been in a climate emergency. Most of 2020 and all of 2021, so far, has taught us what it looks like to act in...