In tennis terms, it’s advantage Connecticut Open, New Haven and the state with Anne Worcester running the professional women’s tennis tournament and also overseeing city marketing.
While the legislature this session passed many bills, and left many more to rot on the House and Senate floors, it's unclear which proposals could be revived as lawmakers continue to negotiate a two-year budget that will eventually need to be approved in special session.
Hartford today stands at a tipping point: Bankruptcy? Revival? Or both? No matter what happens, a longstanding undercurrent of negative “alternate facts” and misperceptions affect the outcome. As a former suburban high school teacher, it shocked me that few of my students had ever been in Hartford. A bad sign; personal involvement in the city can turn these attitudes around.
In a victory for ticket-reselling companies, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has signed into law new requirements anticipated to boost sales in the secondary market — transactions facilitated through online exchanges like those run by South Windsor-based TicketNetwork, StubHub and others.
Most of us work at finding ways to do a better job, advance in a career, and become more successful. That's commendable, but we may differ on how to go about getting there. While most are straightforward, tackling one challenge after another, others do it differently and their actions leave marks that affect our success.
Like perennials blooming in the spring and leaves changing color in October, UConn Health held to its annual time-honored tradition last week of reporting a deficit.
Food trucks, long a staple of street fare in downtown Hartford, recently received approval to operate in the towns of Enfield and West Hartford, albeit on a restricted basis, partly in deference to brick-and-mortar restaurants.