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🔒Doctors push value-based contracts, education

Hospitals and insurers face plenty of uncertainty as they try to discern how President Donald Trump’s promised repeal of Obamacare and other potential health policy changes will impact them.

🔒Noll pitches college planning as next major employer benefit

Pictures of Jeffrey Noll's wife, two sons and a dog adjoin the walls in his Spartan Farmington Avenue office in West Hartford.

🔒Tough lessons on why startups fail

“The Ultimate Start-Up Guide: Marketing Lessons, War Stories and Hard-Won Advice” by Tom Hogan and Carol Broadbent...

🔒Nonprofit Profile: The Connecticut Forum, Inc.

The Liberty Bank Foundation has awarded a $5,000 grant to the Klingberg Family Centers to support the...
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🔒Margolis has aggressive growth ambitions for FMi Chemical

Bob Margolis has known Harry Fine, owner of FMi Chemical Inc. in Bloomfield, for 25-plus years. So when Fine, a chemist whose company makes a silicone used primarily for seals in jet engines, needed someone to help lead and manage FMi's growth, he approached Margolis, who has a diverse background in everything from business development to ownership.

🔒New R&D credit provides startups payroll tax offset

The Protecting Americans from Tax Hike Act (PATH) of 2015 introduced many changes related to the research and development (R&D) tax program. One such improvement, known as the payroll tax offset, provides qualified small business startups the opportunity to elect to use R&D tax credits to offset payroll taxes, instead of waiting to use the credits to offset income taxes.

🔒Middletown’s Wilcox Apts. resold — this time for $7M

The 81-unit Wilcox Apartments complex in Middletown has been sold for the second time in five years in a $7 million deal, or $86,420 per unit.

🔒Talent recruitment key threat to CT’s financial-services industry

Q&A talks to James T. Brett, president & CEO of The New England Council, about the current and future state of Connecticut's financial-services sector.
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🔒YWCA Hartford Region receives Comcast Foundation grant

Representatives from the YWCA Hartford Region were recently joined by Comcast and local officials to celebrate a...

🔒Re-entry employment offers second chances, benefits community

Three and a half years ago, I was working in human resources for the Hartford Public Schools. My husband Jamie left his stable, corporate career to pursue his passion for cooking barbecue and needed to hire staff for the restaurant. I posted a help wanted advertisement with Hartford's adult education department and we hired Bear's first employee. Not long afterward, I met a woman at the gym and decided to hire her. These were our first two employees. Both had criminal records.

🔒CT’s poor fiscal health threatens quality of life

There is a memorable scene during “Godfather II,” one of the all-time great movies, in which the Cuban dictator Batista on the eve of his overthrow gives his farewell address at a swanky dinner in Havana. Even before he announces his imminent resignation, the crowd — sensing that revolution is at hand — uneasily starts to migrate toward the exits to head out and get on their boats or private planes to escape the impending coup.

🔒Webster Bank employees Go Red in February

Webster Bank employees recently participated in National Wear Red Day in support of Heart Month for the...
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🔒Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union celebrates new West Hartford location

The West Hartford Chamber of Commerce welcomed Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union to their new West Hartford...

🔒Private-sector hypocrisy on display at state Capitol

When government wants to intervene in the private sector by adding new regulations, businesses often interject that the free market ought to be left to its own devices.

🔒Community banks anxious for Dodd-Frank reforms

Connecticut community banks swept up seven years ago in the Dodd-Frank financial reforms are anxiously waiting to see what emerges from President Donald Trump's demand to review and reform the massive, intricate law, which local bankers say has been overly burdensome and costly.
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