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🔒CT manufacturing wages shrink despite more jobs

Connecticut’s manufacturing industry posted 1,000 new jobs in 2016, one of the first positive growth years the sector has experienced since the 1980s.

🔒Wade: Interstate insurance sales a challenge

Like many, Insurance Commissioner Katharine Wade isn't yet sure what impact President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at Obamacare could have on Connecticut's healthcare market.

🔒Why companies can’t get marketing right

Marketing rarely fails because of a lack of interest, ideas or even adequate resources. However, it always fails when it doesn't turn prospective buyers into believers.

🔒Coping strategies evolve as tourism advocates seek to restore funding

A move is afoot to restore regional tourism district funding, but in Connecticut's uncertain fiscal climate, attraction owners and tourism officials aren't relying on the state for support and have devised other ways to draw visitors.
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🔒Telephone Consumer Protection Act leads to frivolous lawsuits

Dear Editor:Your recent piece (“CT attorneys, businesses seek legal payday with junk faxes,” Jan. 9) highlights the...

🔒Wind is an important part of Vermont’s future

Dear Editor:Brian Dubie says he knows how Vermont communities feel about wind power in his Jan. 9...

🔒Onyx Moonshine’s journey to revive the American spirit

“Living Proof — Onyx Moonshine's Journey to Revive the American Spirit — Business Principles from the Mind...

🔒Cronin employees organize holiday food drive

Glastonbury marketing agency Cronin LLC donated nearly 3,000 items of non-perishable food equating to almost 2,000 pounds...
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🔒Comcast supports Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring program

Comcast recently donated $40,000 to Nutmeg Big Brothers Big Sisters for the “Beyond School Walls” mentoring program,...

🔒Mooney family reaps $1.25M from E. Hfd. property sale

An East Hartford industrial property that for more than a century housed a local family's freight-forwarding and household-moving operations has sold for $1.25 million, brokers say.

🔒City heads in right direction on pension shift

We know there are no silver bullets to solving the city of Hartford's fiscal crisis, but we applaud Mayor Luke Bronin and the city council for taking a small, if not symbolic, step to rein in long-term costs.

🔒CPA Society Names ‘New and Young Professionals to Watch’

The Connecticut Society of CPAs has announced its 2016 “New and Young Professionals to Watch,” a select...
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🔒CT manufacturer, architecture firm trade insights to stir innovation

Brent Robertson knows good ideas can come from unexpected places, which is partly why he put two clients — one in architecture, another in manufacturing — together to learn from each other.

🔒Farmington Bank hosts holiday store benefitting the Salvation Army

Farmington Bank's West Hartford center branch office recently hosted the WTIC Holiday Store benefitting the Salvation Army....

🔒From Guyana to Storrs, caring is key to building great communities

I am in the community-building business. I am driven by a desire to create places where people can trust and support one another in ways that allow each person to learn, grow and contribute to a common purpose.

🔒The Village for Families and Children

KNOX Inc. has received a $35,000 grant from the Lincoln Financial Foundation in support of its “Hartford...
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🔒Trump will be a joke, not a threat

The only thing funnier than the Trump administration's hostility to news organizations is the indignation of those organizations about it. For while news organizations are as imperfect as the Trump administration is, as long as liberty survives in the United States, the truth will prevail eventually, even when news organizations themselves are against it.
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