July 12, 2021Edition

New prevailing wage legislation will ensure that Connecticut’s efforts to combat climate change will create jobs that pay family-sustaining wages and increase training opportunities for Connecticut’s marginalized residents.

The state has a six- to 12-month window to really leverage its advantages (high quality of life, relative affordability and educated workforce) and aggressively recruit companies, before major nearby cities like New York and Boston begin to really regain their luster. It would be nice to see some of that growth and new business activity reach Greater Hartford.

The 27-hole Goodwin Park Golf Course and 18-hole Keney Park Golf Club, which straddles the Hartford/Windsor line, have become the after-hours focus of Harold Sparrow, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Hartford.

Theaters and live performance venues are gearing up to officially reopen to audiences after more than a year of COVID-19-related restrictions.

A recent slew of cyberattacks targeting major employers is pushing companies of all sizes to ramp up their network defenses — and putting a renewed focus on a national shortage of cybersecurity workers, a problem industry figures say they’ve been grappling with for years.

Connecticut officials are largely trying to move away from direct and upfront incentives to businesses.

State lawmakers have rewarded bioscience companies with a boost in tax credits after what may be the broader industry’s most significant year in modern history.

On July 1, it became legal for adults in Connecticut to possess and use marijuana, but the nearly 300-page recreational cannabis law includes numerous restrictions on what actions employers can take against employees for using the drug at and/or outside of work.

When state lawmakers were debating cannabis legalization bills this year, social equity measures were front and center.

Many small companies plan to outsource business functions this year; that’s created a strong opportunity for firms like Glastonbury-based Accounting Resources Inc. (ARI), which was founded in 1988 to provide comprehensive accounting and bookkeeping services, including CFO-level services, to small- to medium-sized businesses and nonprofits.

Glastonbury financial services executive Jay Maffe first dipped his toe into the restaurant business two years ago, but he’s already decided to dive in.

The overseer of the XL Center is hoping Connecticut’s new sports betting law could spur a major investment that’s been otherwise hard to secure for the aging arena in the heart of downtown Hartford.

With two major offshore wind projects coming to Connecticut, economic development and other officials say they see an opening for in-state manufacturers to start producing for the growing wind industry.