http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/section.cfm?uid=28 Copyright 2009 Hartford Advocate TheOtherRoom.com CFML RSS Generator Tue, 17 Nov 2009 2:52:01 PM CST en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 2:52:01 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15523 Something very large is growling in your back yard, ripping up your bird feeder. It's a bear. It's hungry. And it won't stop. So you shoot the big bugger in the leg with your trusty .22 and call the cops, only to find yourself under arrest for illegal bear hunting. Anthony Scirpo, the... By Gregory B. Hladky http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15523 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 2:52:01 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15525 Extra-Extra-Strength Tylenol It looks like one student enrolled in the Licensed Practical Nurse Program at the Lincoln Technical School in New Britain tried to get a jump start on her medical career — but ended up getting charged with a crime instead. The New Britain Herald reports that Sandra... Compiled by Cassandra Day http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15525 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 2:52:01 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15527 There are approximately four times as many registered sex offenders living on Laurel Street in Hartford as there are in the entire city of Greenwich. Laurel has 19 offenders on one block. Greenwich has five, total. At the McKinney Shelter on Huyshope Avenue, records show there are 29 registered sex... By Daniel D'Ambrosio http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15527 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:52:00 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15507 Jonathan Stevenson of Mystic, Conn., spends a lot of time thinking about such unthinkable things as nuclear arsenals and counterterrorism. As a professor of strategic studies at the U.S. Naval War College in Providence, he's paid to do this. As an author, he has the ability to explain these daunting... By Alan Bisbort http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15507 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:52:00 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15511 It could be considered the "perfect storm" for Connecticut's fledgling public campaign finance system, and it may not be survivable. A ferocious series of political, judicial, fiscal, legislative and economic pressure fronts are coming together in a way that has state and party officials... By Gregory B. Hladky http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15511 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:52:01 AM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15502 Councilman Luis Cotto will introduce a resolution at Monday's city council meeting intended to avoid a repeat of what he considers to be the Brackett Park debacle. Cotto's opposition to the council's decision on Oct. 26 to sell five acres of the seven-plus-acre North End park to a private... By Daniel D'Ambrosio http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15502 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:59:04 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15422 A 22-year-old thug from Stamford is convicted on Oct. 14 of possessing a "Street Sweeper 12 gauge revolving cylinder shotgun." Five days later, a Bridgeport coke dealer gets time added to his sentence for having a loaded Glock 23. The end of last month saw a career criminal from Hartford... By Gregory B. Hladky http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15422 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:59:04 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15426 We have never needed Henry David Thoreau more than we need him now. But the Thoreau we think we know is not really the one who lived and worked in the community of Concord. That Thoreau is an icon, frozen atop a pedestal. He is, says Robert Sullivan in his engaging new book The Thoreau You Don't... By Alan Bisbort http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15426 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:59:04 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15432 In a recent interview, Chief Operating Officer David Panagore revealed his first book report in sixth grade was on the urban renewal authority of Marlborough, Mass., run by his father. "It was all about the exodus of retail from downtown in 1975," recalled Panagore. So it's easy to... By Daniel D'Ambrosio http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15432 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:59:03 PM CST http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15418 Off-Duty Po-Po? Hartford Police received a call Nov. 6 from the Mobile gas station on Brainard Road, according to Sgt. Christene Mertes. The caller said that while she was pumping gas a white male in a blue Oldsmobile told her to get off her cell phone and flashed a badge. The man refused to show... Compiled by Cassandra Day http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15418