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January 23, 2017 EditionEdition

🔒Tax hikes not a budget-balancing solution

The debate over raising taxes in Connecticut will likely heat up in the weeks ahead as lawmakers begin to tackle billion-dollar deficits projected for each of the next two fiscal years.

🔒Progressive advocacy group says tax hikes must be part of CT budget fix

A progressive children's advocacy group is calling for a major tax increase to help solve the state's latest budget crisis, outlining more than $3 billion in revenue-raising options.

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Connecticut Education Association

The Farmington Bank Community Foundation recently provided a $7,500 grant to the Open Hearth Emergency Shelter for...

🔒Students visit historic Farmington Bank branch office

The staff of Farmington Bank's historic Main Street branch in Farmington recently hosted kindergarten students from Noah...
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🔒House Dems unveil economic development proposals

Two leading Democrats in the state House have introduced 10 bills aimed at encouraging job growth and economic development, including measures that expand eligibility for the angel investor tax credit program and create a small business hotline.

🔒Making the political case to save Hartford

The political case for regionalism has been a constant during the four decades I have lived in Connecticut. It has been advanced in two forms with superficial differences and a common denominator.

🔒Essential daily exercises to become more successful

“The Entrepreneur's Book of Actions — Essential Daily Exercises and Habits for Becoming Wealthier, Smarter and More...

🔒Middletown professional park sold for $1.525M

The Middlesex Professional Park medical-office complex on Saybrook Road in Middletown has a new owner who paid $1.525 million, brokers say.
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🔒FASB releases major update to not-for-profit reporting

Last August, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released the most significant overhaul of not-for-profit accounting and reporting in more than 20 years.

🔒‘First Five’ recipient sues R&D exec, competitor over poaching

German consumer products giant Henkel, which has its North American headquarters in Rocky Hill, has sued to stop a competitor from poaching a top research and development executive based in Connecticut, where the maker of Sunlight and All laundry detergents is expanding its footprint with the help of as much as $25 million in state incentives.

🔒Glastonbury insurance agency directs 50% of profits to charity

Chad Yonker, a former hedge fund manager, never intended to own an insurance agency. In fact, his first exposure to GoodWorks Insurance — the Glastonbury-based agency whose business model is designed to donate 50 percent of its annual profits to charity — was as an equity investor when the company launched in 2006.

🔒Hartford Hospital expansion targets high-tech training

Last month, contractors at Hartford Hospital were installing doors and making other finishing touches on a state-backed expansion of an already bustling high-tech medical training hub.
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🔒Girl Within luncheon raises $153K for young women, girls

Nearly 500 women and men came together at The Village for Families & Children's Girl Within Luncheon....

🔒Hagstrom turns furniture into worker recruiting tool

Josh Hagstrom grew up around office furniture, so it seems fitting that he would eventually pull up a chair in the industry.

🔒First Tee of CT Honors Board Members

The First Tee of Connecticut honored three board of directors who were founding members of the Connecticut chapter, at their year-end board meeting.

🔒Don’t leave potential customers wondering

“It's the third time they've called this week. I'm just too busy to deal with it. Hopefully they'll eventually give up.”
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🔒E-commerce keeps one N. Britain hardware store still thriving

Quiet as it's kept, a few years back Linda Rutkowski was wondering why her brother Arek was spending so much time in front of the computer at the family's New Britain business.

🔒CT Funeral Directors Association collects toys for families

Members of the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association continued their 11-year holiday tradition of collecting toys for the...
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