Apparently it was to be considered just another weekend in Hartford – two carjackings, a bank robbed by two men with handguns, a stabbing that apparently involved drugs, and two shooting incidents, one on the street and the other in a bar, in which nine people were wounded.
Though the city is the state capital, nobody in authority seems to have taken much notice, including the city’s own mayor, who emerged from the weekend to undertake something having nothing to do with the mayhem: the convening, in secret, of a committee that will study replacing the arena at the former Hartford Civic Center, now the XL Center, with something that might revive the city’s old pipe dream, major-league hockey and basketball.
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