April 8, 2019Edition

It's incredible to think that a need exists for a state-led business leader “Blue Ribbon Panel on Tourism” to arrive at the conclusion that Connecticut must rebrand and divert more tax revenue to help grow our floundering tourism industry.

A new batch of global technology startups is in Hartford aiming to transform the insurance industry.

Q&A talks with Devra Sisitsky, executive director of MakerspaceCT.

When we think of inventors and innovators, “eccentric” often describes them. Schilling explored the eccentricities and other characteristics of game-changers (GCs) and found that while “ordinary folks” share many of their traits, they don't think they can, so they don't try. Those who changed the game believed they could do it and did. Here are some highlights:

Connecticut's two long-term acute-care hospitals are bigger and healthier than some of their peers across the country, but they're feeling the pinch of increasing cost scrutiny of their industry by academics and Medicare.

The musical phenomenon “Hamilton” is long gone from The Bushnell after its three-week, 24-performance run in December that attracted more than 66,000 patrons, some willing to spend more than $1,000 a ticket.

I recently had lunch with a former colleague from the Malloy administration who, in response to me noting how “quiet” the Capitol and Legislative Office Building seem these days, said: “Don't worry, the [s--t] will hit the fan soon enough.”

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) presented the single biggest change in U.S. tax policy since the Tax Reform Act of 1986; it had literally been more than 30 years since we had seen such sweeping legislation alter the nation's tax landscape.

With headwinds blowing, Gaylord Specialty Healthcare and Hospital for Special Care have each been bobbing and weaving strategically, ramping up outpatient and other non-long-term hospital care services to diversify their revenue streams and spread risk.

Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed Congress in 2017, some Connecticut nonprofits are seeing fewer donations.

Part of what draws Tenesha Grant to the human-services field is her experience as a teenage mother of two by the time she graduated high school.