Herald sportswriter Bart Fisher, who died last week at age 68, touched many, many people with his coverage of sports, "encyclopedic" knowledge of athletics and community and informative pieces about the city's history. Invariably a Bart Fisher column would reveal little known but important aspects of New Britain's past that gave us a deeper understanding … Continue reading Tribute To Bart Fisher, the Herald’s Historian-In-Residence
Month: January 2013
Community Journalism Gone Bad
The New Britain City Journal, once a promising venture in community journalism, has plunged into a tabloid gutter of innuendo, rumor and personal attack over the issue of regulating non-owner occupied housing and paying for code enforcement in the city. The City Journal, violating basic rules of journalism with all kinds of unsubstantiated accusations, has … Continue reading Community Journalism Gone Bad
Sunshine On State Budget: Lembo Launches Open Connecticut
Score one for State Comptroller Kevin Lembo on the government and transparency front to start 2013. .Lembo has launched a new website for the public to get an unabridged and politically neutral one-stop source for where state government spends its money, gets its income and borrows. If there are inefficiencies or redundancies to root out … Continue reading Sunshine On State Budget: Lembo Launches Open Connecticut
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