Mayor Erin Stewart and the founder of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball signed a tentative agreement Monday to bring baseball back to New Britain.

This blog post originally appeared here. When I took office at 26 years old in November 2013 as New Britain, Connecticut’s 40th—and youngest mayor—I was shocked by what I soon learned about the city where I was born and raised and so dearly loved: we were $30 million in debt and staring a state bankruptcy right in the face. Blighted…