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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.