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Daily Archives: June 5th, 2009

Friday Night Music-Benny Goodman

Friday, June 5, 2009

This week marked Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday. My wife is a big fan of Goodman’s, dating from her days as a clarinetist for the Oberlin High Marching Band. Here he is with Teddy Wilson, Tony Terran, Dick Nash, Eddie Duran, Al Obidenski and John Markham at the Aurex Jazz Festival in Japan, playing Sweet Georgia […]

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Amann’s big issue a bust

Friday, June 5, 2009

Speaking of tax breaks (see previous post), it looks like (who would have guessed) that one of Jim Amann’s talking points doesn’t bear close examination. The last time I saw our hapless (or is that hopeless) here, he was bragging about this efforts to make Connecticut Hollywood East. Apparently, he’s merely helped make Connecticut another […]

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Equality under the law

Friday, June 5, 2009

In this time of rising economic inequality there is another type of inequality that seems to be on the rise as well. Of course, maybe I’m merely being optimistic. Maybe this type of inequality has been with us always. This is reputed to be a country of laws and not of men, but that adage […]

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