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December 18, 2017 EditionEdition

🔒Municipal broadband effort too risky for ratepayers

When we last visited the issue of municipal broadband, the Westerly, Rhode Island town council was weighing a proposal from SiFi Networks to build a $30 million fiber-optic network. The system was to be taxpayer funded through annual payments ranging from $1 million to $2.5 million over 30 years.

🔒Congress must preserve CT employers’ right to self-insure

Connecticut health insurers recently announced their 2018 premiums. Employers won't like them. Rates for some small business plans will rise more than 25 percent. That follows an average increase of 5 percent last year.

🔒Cass looks to maintain American Nuclear Insurers’ expertise pipeline

If there ever were a catastrophic accident at one of the country's 99 commercial nuclear reactors, a small office in Glastonbury would handle the significant insurance claims likely to follow.

🔒KBE Building Corp. provides Thanksgiving dinner to 300 families

KBE Building Corp. in Farmington provided 302 turkey dinners for families as part of its ninth annual Gift...
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🔒Q&A with Ben and Joy Braddock, Hog River Brewing Co. owners

Ben and Joy Braddock saw good things brewing in Hartford's Parkville neighborhood and wanted to tap into and feed the vibe, opening their craft brewery, Hog River Brewing Co., there in Aug. 2016.

🔒The power of hyperlocal media in spreading good news

Many of the upcoming holidays are festivals of light; Christmas, Chanukah, Diwali and Kwanzaa all use light as powerful imagery to reflect goodness, purity and hope. Imagine Edith Wharton's vision come true, where “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

🔒Margaret Wilcox & Associates partners with Dorothy’s Community Closet

Glastonbury Real Estate Agency Margaret Wilcox & Associates recently held a collection of toiletries and lightly used...

🔒Hartford HealthCare’s new logistics center aims to fill beds, reduce wait times

Tucked away in a Newington administrative building, 10 nurses and other staff from Hartford HealthCare are working the phones, coordinating patient transfers to approximately 1,800 inpatient beds across Connecticut.
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🔒Five We Watched in 2017

Here is a look back at the five business, nonprofit and higher education leaders we watched in 2017.

🔒CT Bar Association donates to CT Food Bank and Foodshare

The Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) Workers' Compensation Section donated over $11,000 to Connecticut Food Bank and Foodshare....

🔒New association to recruit more African-Americans to CT insurance industry

During her 21 years in the insurance industry, Ngozi Nnaji has often found herself the only African-American in the room. It's not something she wants the next generation of black insurance professionals to experience.

🔒Tips to improve your firm’s talent management

Demystifying Talent Management — Unleash People's Potential to Deliver Superior Results” by Kimberly Janson (Maven House Press,...
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