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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.