Saturday, January 19, 2008

Anonymous history

The room on the 21st floor of a Hartford office building is about the size of a neighborhood gas station mini-mart, trading the racks of potato chips and coolers of pop for meeting tables and a witness stand.

There are no windows. The acoustics are patchy beyond the first row of public seating and the wooden benches are butt-numbingly hard after a few hours. It is not, plainly, Philadelphia's Independence Hall or a stop on Boston's Freedom Trail.

It is, however, where the course of a federal agency's jurisdiction over tribal employees and the Mashantucket Pequot tribe's argument of an unfair union election will be hashed out yet again next week.

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