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                                          By John Murray      Like a truck driver barrelling along I-84, former Connecticut Governor John Rowland has a blind spot. While the truck driver is unable to see cars approaching from certain angles, Rowland is blind to a world outside of politics where not everything is partisan, and laws are not crafted […]

                                   Commentary By John Murray    We received a text message the other day that simply said, “Can we get together and talk about this?” Not familiar with the number, or what we’d be talking about, we responded with, […]

     John Rowland has been found guilty on all seven felony charges in a quick and decisive verdict rendered by a jury today in New Haven federal court. It’s a sad day for Rowland, his family and for Waterbury. The judge will give him a harsh sentence and he will spend years in federal […]

Albania’s ambassador to the United States, Gilbert Galanxhi, traveled from Washington D.C. for an historic meeting of the local Albanian community in Waterbury with two United States Senators.                         Story and Photographs By John Murray    With 12,000 Albanians living in Waterbury the city has […]

Danielle Rodgers of Naugatuck slams an elbow into a pad.    Every two minutes, someone in the United States is raped. The vast majority (nine out of ten) are women; 80% are under the age of 30, 44% are under the age of 18. Since 2009, Jane Doe No More, Incorporated has partnered with the […]

Lively community conversations were all part of the process that led to a redesign of the Green in downtown Waterbury. Photograph by John Murray     New Britain-based landscape architecture and civil engineering design firm TO Design, LLC received an Award of Merit in Landscape Planning and Analysis from the Connecticut Chapter of the American Society […]

                                              By John Murray    In February 2012 Deputy Police Chief Vernon Riddick, pictured above, moderated a panel discusssion on the history of the African-American struggle inside the Waterbury Police Department. For decades systemic […]

The founders of Shakesperience Productions, Emily Mattina, and her husband, Jeff Lapham, have tackled the edgy and historically significant subject of Radium Girls for their latest play.                                                  By John Murray    Shakesperience […]

   Poverty has continued to rise in Connecticut during Connecticut’s slow economic recovery, according to new Census data from the American Community Survey. In 2011, 10.9% of Connecticut residents (377,856) had incomes under the Federal Poverty Level, up from 10.1% in 2010. Poverty increased more quickly among children. Among Connecticut children under age 18, 14.9% […]

                                          Column By John Murray    Waterbury, as in most cities, has several bases of power; there is the police department, the court system, bankers, realtors, business, and in the image above, two iconic power symbols in Waterbury […]