Tag: connecticut
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Fuchsprellen Colog-nuh
A quick update on the adventures of Fuchsprellen. If this band is wrong I don’t wanna be right… We secured a date at Cafe Nine in New Haven, on very short notice, and played a double bill with Light Upon Blight on November 9. LUB is Jeff Cedrone’s project, and I have been playing bass…
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Can Politics ever really reach Bottom?
As the results trickle in from Connecticut’s 2014 midterm election I can’t help but wonder if the process can get any worse. It was impossible to find substantive discussion on either side. Republican candidate Tom Foley apparently spent the past four years in cryogenic suspension because he was less informed about every issue that he…
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Bicycle Thoughts in Deep Winter – 2
One great resource for bicycle reading is Urban Velo magazine out of Pittsburgh. In the great tradition of mags like Tape-Op and Beer Advocate, it is a sharp focus mag with a strong identity and strong opinions. In this case Urban Velo has a fixed-gear focus with a strong undercurrent of Bike Friendly and Bike…
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Bicycle Thoughts in Deep Winter
The winter of 2012 was a wonderful aberration. In most of New England it was the “winter without a winter”. While some people remember the lack of skiing, skating, ice fishing, or snow plowing, my memories involve bicycles. Not the lack of bicycles, but the amazing gift of a winter bicycling season. Unseasonably warm temps…
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HEBBY ROTAYSHUM!!!
fuchsprellen update: Fuchsprellen Fever! Catch It! Our friend Ernst shot a video at the January 3, 2013 Best Video show and it is currently experiencing “hebby rotayshum” on New Haven Cable Access… Two videos up, and a few more in the pipeline: https://www.youtube.com/user/fuchsprellen3000 Audio from 3 January, 2013 at Best Video now free, or best…
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Quick Note on CT Gun Law
When I applied for a concealed carry permit in CT it was apparent that this wasn’t some rubber stamp process. Town, State and Federal background checks with fingerprinting. Three written reference letters. NRA Safety Certificate. Local and State review before approval. 5-year review and renewal process For the reference letters I needed to involve friends…
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Silence of the Wolves
Less than two weeks ago you didn’t have to look far to hear the NRA squawk box holding forth on the relationship between a national tragedy and a national call for better gun regulation: Eleven days ago—since when two mass shootings have taken place, this one in Newtown and another earlier this week at a…
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Each Tragedy is an Argument for Gun Control
In what is becoming a kind of trend, Reason and Politics has written an entry in response to today’s tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. Josh wrote a piece that I could have written almost verbatim and it would be entirely accurate. Please give it a read. I grew up around guns, was educated on their destructive…
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New Britain-Hartford Busway pt1
Dumb All Over The Connecticut DOT has been planning a busway from New Britain to Hartford, and is supposedly in the “home stretch”. In ConnDOT-terms that means that sometime in the next decade you might move from hearings to the bid process. Glacial Progress is the order of the day. It would seem that taking…
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Ragged Mountain Project
Happy New Year and I wish y’all a great 2010. For the new year I’m starting a new blog project… It has been about five years since I started making an effort to photograph the Ragged Mountain area as part of my usual hiking activity. Ragged has been one of my favorite places to hike…
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