Category: Columns
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Colón’s Corner: “Take Good Pictures” – A Year in The West Haven Fire Department
For those of you who’ve read my prior columns, you know the story pretty well by now. I didn’t have a job, I was feeling like crap because of that, and simply put I was getting desperate. Very desperate. Posting my resume on Facebook as something of a last resort,…
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Colón’s Corner: Memo To NYPD Brass: Grow Up
Why the NYPD’s top brass needs to stop their social media silliness It was a heartbreaking week of loss for the New York City Police Department. Then-Officer Jonathan Diller, since posthumously promoted to the rank of First Grade Detective as is custom by the NYPD to honor members killed in…
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Colón’s Corner: 2023 — The Year I Finally Entered Adulthood
What these 12 months in particular taught me Looking back over my shoulder to borrow an old line from a really good Mike & The Mechanics song, 2023 was in many senses the year I finally entered into this whole adulthood thing if you will. This time last year, I…
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Colón’s Corner: In Trading For Soto, the Yankees Remember Who They Are
The Yankees add a generational talent and reclaim their identity in the process A seven player blockbuster brought a 25-year old generational talent in Juan Soto to The Bronx. After a day’s worth of seemingly a million and one different reports from a variety of wanna be insiders plagued with…
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Colón’s Corner: Preserved, Remembered, and Loved
On a day with both the NYPD and FDNY on the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks The anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks is without question always a solemn one. No matter how much time has passed since that tragic late summer’s morning, for the first responders who…
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Colón’s Corner: All Aces at Citi Field
On a great night with equally great people Even as I was gearing up to board the train, I still couldn’t quite believe what I was getting to be a part of. I’ve often said, when you do right by cops and firemen, they’ll always do right by you. You’ll…
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