Op/Ed

Revolutions by the century

Revolutions by the century

Your pocket guide to revolutions by the century, anglocentric edition. The 1700s were about the rights of man, notably with the American and French revolutions. We had ours first. In the 1800s, the industrial revolution moved the world from a rural agrarian economy to an urban manufacturing one. That’s what contributed to the rise of capitalism and capitalists, people who owned the company but didn’t do the work. Two world wars in the 1900s created a new order with America emergent in the second half. Starting around 2000ish, Google revolutionized the world by putting it at your fingertips. The revolution is brought to you by Google.

Hartford is pushing concrete, but Fairfield is pushing back.

Hartford is pushing concrete, but Fairfield is pushing back.

At the 7/10 RTM ‘special’ session in Fairfield, the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority (CMDA) came to advance its pro-developer agenda. This initiative is effectively the brother of the just-defeated HB 5002 bill. It represents yet another attempt by Hartford to impose a construction-first agenda on local communities. The CMDA is using state-borrowed money to rewrite local zoning codes on a town-by-town basis to allow for more density and bigger buildings.