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January 9, 2017 EditionEdition

🔒Farmington Bank employees donate business attire and shoes

Farmington Bank employees in Connecticut and Massachusetts donated over 400 articles of gently used clothing and shoes to benefit Dress for Success of Hartford, Dress for Success of Springfield and SuitUp Springfield. Farmington Bank exceeded its goal to collect 368 items representing its current number of employees. Pictured (from left) are: Sara Avatapalli; Marc Massimino; […]

🔒Top business lobbyist takes reins of CT CPA Society

Looking back on his 20 years at the helm of the Connecticut Society of CPAs, Art Renner realizes how much has changed in his industry. “When I got started [with the Society] in 1996, the internet was in its infancy,” Renner recalled. “Today, the volume and speed of information in our industry is light years different than back then.”

🔒The Obamacare debate isn’t over

The question of whether Republicans should repeal Obamacare appears settled. Vice President-elect Mike Pence was on Capitol Hill last week to rally his party's lawmakers. Later in the day, the Senate voted 51-48 to begin debate on a budget resolution that would help pave the way for repeal of President Obama's signature policy.

🔒CT attorneys, businesses seek legal payday with junk faxes

Ever get to work and find a stack of unsolicited advertisements waiting in the fax machine?
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🔒Hey Connecticut, Vermont ridgelines, meadows are not for sale

Why is a Vermont developer seeking to blast important ridgeline habitat to install seven 499-foot-tall industrial wind towers near a residential Vermont neighborhood? Why is this developer seeking to build his wind plant when no Vermont electric utility wants to buy his power?

🔒Unions must agree to benefits concessions

With limited choices on how to solve the state's billion-dollar budget deficits, legislators must ask state employee unions for salary and/or benefit concessions, rather than depend solely on budget cuts and tax increases to make ends meet.

🔒Nonprofit Profile: The Children’s Museum

Hartford Performs received a $2,000 grant from The Wireless Zone Foundation for Giving.Hartford Performs is a nonprofit...

🔒Keys to maintaining customer loyalty

“The Customer Loyalty Loop — Why People Buy, Buy More, and Buy Again” by Noah Fleming (Career...
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🔒Q&A: Lobbying firm expansion bridges partisan divide

Q&A talks to James Amann, former Democratic House Speaker of the General Assembly and co-founder and managing partner of International Government Strategies LLC (IGS), a Milford-based lobbying firm.

🔒Insurers, docs focus on fighting opioid epidemic

Bloomfield insurer Cigna hopes its latest assault on the opioid epidemic — encouraging doctors to sign a pledge to reduce opioid prescribing — proves an effective arrow in its quiver of strategies to reduce customers' opioid use by 25 percent over the next three years.

🔒USJ boosting business program with free master’s degree

In Connecticut's crowded business higher education field, the University of St. Joseph in West Hartford is looking for a way to stand out.

🔒Dealmaker Morizio one of region’s most prolific realty brokers

Nicholas Morizio has had a hand in the purchase or sale of some of the most recognizable commercial real estate in Greater Hartford and Connecticut through decades of hard work and relationships built face to face.
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🔒Four Local Comcast Leaders Saluted ByTelecom Trade Group

At the recent New England Women in Cable Telecommunications annual Evening of Excellence dinner and awards ceremony,...

🔒Voya volunteers assemble first-aid kits

Volunteers from Voya Financial recently assembled 1,000 first-aid kits at Americares headquarters as part of the nonprofit...

🔒Robinson+Cole staff volunteer with Junior Achievement

Robinson+Cole lawyers and staff members recently participated in Junior Achievement Day at Parkville Community School in Hartford....

🔒10 area multi-family properties fetch more than $20.4M

A portfolio of 10 Hartford area apartment-condominium communities with 384 units recently sold for more than $20.4 million, officials say.
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🔒CT’s largest lobbying firms led by women

Paddi LeShane did not follow the tried-and-true path to becoming a lobbyist by working for political candidates, but that didn't stop her from becoming a top female lobbyist in Connecticut.
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