February 9, 2009 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Movers & Shakers

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Greenberg Blasts AIG For Hartford Steam Deal | Former CEO says taxpayers stand to lose from troubled insurer’s hurried, low-ball asset sales

Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, the banished CEO of American International Group, is still waiting for answers why the...

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Health Net Helped Red Cross During Cold Snap

A donation from Health Net helped support Red Cross shelters across Connecticut in January during several days...

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Of Note

• Connecticut Light and Power (CL&P) announced that Suffield High School is the winner of “Live Green —...

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Foodshare Reaches Milestone

Foodshare reached a new milestone last year. “Over 12 million pounds of food has been received by...

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Good For Workers

Editor’s Note: Organized labor’s top legislative goal this year is passage of the federal Employee Free Choice...

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EFCA Is Flawed

Editor's Note: Organized labor's top legislative goal this year is passage of the federal Employee Free Choice...

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Mayor Eddie And Crime

How hard can it be to write newspaper columns, when the local mayor congratulates himself for a...

Economy & Labor

Bill Seeks Background Checks, Licenses For Trash Haulers

In an effort to root out organized crime in the state’s trash hauling industry, Attorney General Richard...

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Union Concessions

After months of pointing at the problem, Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the state legislature now have...

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Ex-Town Manager Begins Anew Running City Shelter

Owen Quinn has moved his career back to Hartford from the suburbs to help some of the...

Manufacturing

Cash-Hungry Biotechs Counting On Stimulus

With worried eyes on shrinking cash reserves, Connecticut’s biotech companies are looking to the proposed federal stimulus...

Manufacturing

NU Gains Key Support For Its Canadian Project

Two key public officials in Connecticut have endorsed a plan by Northeast Utilities and NStar to build...

Economy & Labor

Rell Takes A Stand

Gov. M. Jodi Rell offered a bare-bones budget last week that would slash 800 state jobs, raise...

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A Good Start

Gov. M. Jodi Rell’s plan to scale back Connecticut’s bloated government to bridge a projected three-year $10...

Economy & Labor

State Contracts

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

Small Business

Foundation Wins Corporate Support Award

Lincoln Financial Foundation was presented the “2008 Corporate Support Award” at the Easter Seals Greater Hartford Rehabilitation...

Economy & Labor

‘Overcome Evil With Good’ | Drew Crandall, executive director, Northeast Christians atWork

What does being Christian (or Jewish or Muslim) have to do with the bottom line? ...

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Saint Francis Installs Next Generation Pet/CT Scanner

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center now offers the Siemens PET/CT scanner, which combines state-of-the-art Positron Emission...

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Capital Workforce Partners

Mission: We leverage public and private resources to produce skilled workers for a competitive regional economy. ...

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Your Ideas Are More Valuable In These Times

Four centuries ago when French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes made his famous statement, “I think, therefore...

Economy & Labor

Occupancy Rates Dip At Area Hotels | Steep declines in Q4 are linked to financial crisis

Hotel occupancy rates for the Hartford region declined 3.8 percent in 2008, as the faltering economy undercut...

Economy & Labor

Businesses Can Learn A Lot From The Ox

What do the Chinese New Year, President Barack Obama, and your success have in common? An ox....

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Insurers Want Connecticut To Join Compact

Insurance industry lobbyists are pushing hard for Connecticut to join 32 others states in an interstate compact...

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CVS To Anchor Center In Manchester

During this deep economic slump, it would be easy for commercial property owners, tenants, lenders and community...

Economy & Labor

Islam Claims He’s Found Financing

You wouldn’t know it from looking at the outside of Broadcast House, but demolition teams have been...

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Lieberman Visits Enfield CTWorks Center

U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman recently visited the Enfield CTWorks Center, which is comprised of the state Department...

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