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🔒BL Companies Wins Two Marketing Communications Awards

BL Companies was honored by the Connecticut Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services at its Marketing Communications Awards Gala. BL scored the Best Video award for its Who […]

🔒KeyBank sees commercial lending growth in CT

Q&A talks with Jeff Hubbard, KeyBank Connecticut and western Massachusetts market president.

🔒Farmington Bank honored by Small Business Administration

Farmington Bank was named “Lender of the Quarter” by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Connecticut District Office....

🔒Newington mfg. property for sale at $1.4M, or lease

A Newington industrial/manufacturing building near the Berlin Turnpike is for lease or sale at $1.39 million, brokers say.
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🔒HBJ Special Report: Opioids in the Workplace

Connecticut's opioid crisis seems to make headlines daily these days. Whether it's calls for more government intervention or another tragic story of a life cut short from a deadly overdose, the public's attention to the dangers of addiction to painkillers and similar drugs is at an all-time high.

🔒CT Historical Society wins $10K grant

The Connecticut Historical Society has received a $10,000 grant from the Ensworth Charitable Foundation to help fund...

🔒Opioid scourge puts employers in crosshairs

By now, it's no secret the opioid epidemic is wreaking havoc on individuals and families across Connecticut.

🔒How to break silos for better collaboration

“Collaboration Begins with You — Be a Silo Buster” by Ken Blanchard, Jane Ripley and Eunice Parisi-Carew...
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🔒Prevailing wage: Good for workers, good for business

Gov. Malloy and the legislature are considering deep cuts to municipal aid in order to rectify an over $3 billion budget deficit. Connecticut's Conference of Municipalities (CCM) is rightfully concerned, and looking for other means to keep municipal budgets balanced. One of its main proposals is to raise the thresholds as to when our state's prevailing wage law is triggered on public construction projects.

🔒The Hartford donates school supplies to Hartford students

The Hartford's annual Back to School Giving program provided more than 1,000 Hartford-area students with backpacks full...

🔒InsurTech Hackathon aims to breed new startup

Aspiring entrepreneurs with technology ideas that could help the insurance industry are invited to vie for a $5,000 first prize next month during a hackathon weekend at Upward Hartford, featuring top regional developers, designers, coaches, entrepreneurs, mentors and judges from Boston, New York City and Silicon Valley.

🔒Hartford bankruptcy becoming more palatable option

When stocks fail to lose or gain ground following a major economic announcement, like a Federal Reserve interest rate hike or a new jobs report, analysts sometimes say the reaction was already “baked into” the market, meaning investors anticipated the news and previously priced the potential impact into their investment decisions.
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🔒YMCA of Greater Hartford celebrates Y-BELL Power Scholars Academy graduates

The YMCA of Greater Hartford was recently joined by local officials, representatives of Comcast and families to...

🔒Opioid addiction treatment industry grows as epidemic spreads

As Greater Hartford's opioid epidemic continues to grow, particularly in the suburbs, so has the region's treatment and recovery industry.

🔒CT bankers’ finance/management school trains future leaders

An MBA can get you far in certain careers, but if banking is the path you want to take, Connecticut has a school that offers something much more specialized.

🔒Post-truth era business development strategies

In my last column (“Business development in the 'post-truth era,' ”) I discussed post-truth era characteristics and implications for business development. This article focuses on strategies to handle the post-truth era's (PTE) symptoms that can make business development more challenging than ever.
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🔒Middlesex Hospital on track for fall shoreline expansion

Middletown's Middlesex Hospital has expanded the footprint of a $28 million facility it built several years ago in Westbrook.
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