December 5, 2016 EditionEdition

🔒Health Care Heroes provide healing touch for those in need

With the changing tides in Washington D.C., the healthcare industry is headed into another year of great uncertainty and, most likely, changes. But regardless of the political and practical challenges […]

🔒Vernon flex building on Tolland Tpke. draws $691K

An 8,000-square-foot Vernon flex building on the Tolland Turnpike recently sold for $691,411, brokers say.

🔒Assisted Living Services Receives Healthcare Award

Meriden's Assisting Living Services and its subsidiary, Assisted Living Technologies Inc., are the recipients of the Connecticut...

🔒XL Center renovation key to Hartford’s future

The future of the XL Center has been brought back into the spotlight, although nothing new has developed since the Capital Region Development Authority (CRDA) last year backed a $250 million plan to renovate the 41-year-old arena.
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🔒Nonprofit Notebook — December 5, 2016

Connecticut Humane Society raised over $42,000 through its Diamonds in the Ruff Gala Auction. The event was...

🔒Union efforts to block state’s outsourcing troubling

My Aug. 1 column, “State's nonprofit-contracting system broken”, and this newspaper's Aug. 22 editorial, “CT's fiscal crisis presents reform opportunities,” both addressed the need for foundation-level reform of the state's social services delivery system using the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) as a case in point. I am circling back to this topic because of new information that casts the state-employee union's involvement in the matter in a negative light — suggesting that it owes someone either a credible explanation or an apology.

🔒Local companies collect turkeys for Hartford families

Volunteers from Bank of America and UnitedHealthcare collected turkeys donated by Hartford employers and residents as part...
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🔒Business books that make great holiday gifts of knowledge, motivation

The holidays are fast approaching. Shoppers search for that special gift. While choices seem endless, choosing is...

🔒Office holiday party season alive in Hartford region

If Black Friday sales are a barometer of holiday consumer spending, then perhaps the trends in office holiday parties might be a useful indicator of the country's and Connecticut's corporate-sector health.

🔒Business myths that get companies into trouble

We're going to plug holes in a few concepts that are alluring, but usually not true and can be very expensive.

🔒Innovate Hartford aims for 100 new startups in year one

Shana Schlossberg envisions her new venture in downtown Hartford's Stilts Building to be a hive of entrepreneurial and creative energy that will spin off new high-tech businesses, grow existing ones, foster investments, launch connections, inspire youth, create jobs and fuel game-changing robotic and wearable technology innovations that could be manufactured here.
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