I don’t know who has a harder time getting elected, a Republican in New Britain or a Democrat in Glastonbury; but former Courant political columnist Michele Jacklin has managed the latter on her first try. Of course, being a long-time authority on state politics and state and local government doesn’t hurt; plus if she screws [...]
The newspaper industry is looking more and more like the typewriter industry, or vynil record business, or horse and buggy. An excerpt from the WSJ story: Mike Simonton, analyst with Fitch Ratings, said that while newspaper ad declines are “relentless,” the circulation data suggest that “even more stable revenue streams are becoming vulnerable” and that [...]
It looks like New Britain voters spared former Courant reporter Dwight Blint from a term of unappreciated service as an elected public official, but that often happens to rookies in that city who run on the Republican ticket. Dwight’s standard-bearer, Mayor Timothy Stewart, was re-elected however; and judging from what he said (as reported by Don Stacom, The Courant’s [...]
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