December 7, 2009 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Legal & Courts

Family Ties Appeals To Bar Association Head

The new head of the Connecticut Bar Association has relocated to the East Coast out of a...

Hospitality & Tourism

Managing Baggage | Luke Dudley, Founder, LuggageLimits.com

You promote your Web site as “designed to provide answers to virtually any luggage question.” Are there...

Small Business

A Green Twist On Bartering

There’s a movement sweeping through many of the businesses in Hartford’s Growing Green Co-Op and it has...

Nonprofits

United Way Cracks $25.5 Million Goal

The 2009 United Way Community Campaign, the largest annual health and human service fund-raising effort in Connecticut...

Economy & Labor

Movers & Shakers

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Real Estate & Construction

Feds’ Nod Opens Door To More Rentschler Development | Developer inks deal to bring in more stores, restaurants and parking

Editors Note: This is the first of a Hartford Business Journal occasional series that examines the successes...

News

Say Yes To Shelter

The opposition to locating a winter homeless shelter in a church basement smack in the middle of...

Manufacturing

No Layoffs At Lego’s Enfield Plant

Lego Group’s Enfield offices will not be affected by layoffs recently announced at Lego’s Billund, Denmark, complex,...

Economy & Labor

GE Returns To Roots As It Looks To Spin Off NBC

For General Electric Co., the NBC entertainment division was always an odd fit. One of the...

News

Distinguished Alumni Honored

United Technologies Corp. Senior Vice President and General Counsel Charles D. Gill received the Distinguished Alumnus Award...

News

Insurers Shut Out Of Pilot Husky Program | Program looks to contain costs, improve quality and access

Managed-care companies now running the state’s Husky Medicaid program will soon have some new competition, which proponents...

News

Polls, Policies & Politics

With the decision by Gov. M. Jodi Rell to ride off into the sunset when her term...

News

Of Note

• United Technologies Research Center, the central research and innovation arm of United Technologies Corp., has achieved the...

Economy & Labor

Another Reason To Be Thankful

In this season of Thanksgiving, I am thankful for the late Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her remarkable...

Banking & Finance

Recession Hits Bank Income

Connecticut banks and savings institutions shed 144 jobs in the third quarter of 2009, and reported a...

Economy & Labor

State Contracts

Here are the latest bids for products and services received by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services...

News

Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

West Hartford recently welcomed Nurturing Hands to their new location at 777 Farmington Ave. The West Hartford...

Real Estate & Construction

CT Mall Operator Files Plan To Exit Chapter 11

The owner of major U.S. shopping malls, including in Manchester and Waterbury, said that it has filed...

Real Estate & Construction

Torrington Machinist Firm Expanding

Specialty machinist BNB Manufacturing plans a $700,000, 13,200-square-foot addition to its production plant at 200 Price Road...

News

State Shouldn’t Cut Economic Drivers

It’s the economy. It’s job growth. Just before Thanksgiving, Gov. M. Jodi Rell sounded the alarms...

News

Tough Decisions Must Focus On Economy, Jobs

Connecticut’s state budget crisis is a very serious situation, but one that employers across the state view...

Politics & Policy

It’s Official

Connecticut Lt. Gov. Michael Fedele announced on Wednesday that he will seek the Republican nomination to run...

Nonprofits

ITNNorthCentralConnecticut

Mission: We believe that transportation is a link to independence, quality of life and social interaction. We...

Retail

Auto Sales Still Sputtering | Less competition, more used car sales, and service sustains local auto dealers

As U.S. auto sales sputter back after plunging to a three-decade low earlier this year, local car...

News

Grant Benefits Fire Department

East Hartford Mayor Melody Currey joined the town’s fire chief, John Oates, as executives from Smith Brothers...

News

Giving Circle Helps Local Groups

The Hartford Club Women’s Giving Circle presented two area groups with financial awards to help women and...

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