June 2, 2008 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Billboard Industry Seeking A Compromise With Rell

A battle between Gov. M. Jodi Rell and the state’s billboard industry appeared destined for a truce...

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To Start Your Business

Graduating from college or graduate school? Congratulations! What are you going to do now? Send out resumes?...

Manufacturing

‘Red Flag’ Rules For Banks Target Identity Theft

Banks have until November to implement new federal “red flag rules” aimed at curbing identity theft by...

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CB Richard Ellis Reports Two Sales Totaling $8M

CB Richard Ellis has announced the sale of two office buildings in Greater Hartford for a total...

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Farm Bill Likely To Help State’s Dairy Farmers

The $300 billion federal farm bill has its share of detractors — namely President George W. Bush...

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FUNDS FOR FIELD TRIPS

The Junior League of Hartford in Hartford presented a check for $1,000 to Girls Inc. The funds...

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Change Your Thoughts And Change Your Life

If what you see is what you get, what will you get? That all depends on what...

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Mass Transit, Mass Spending

It’s not so much that gas has now reached $4 a gallon. It’s that $5 a gallon...

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June 2, 2008 — Movers & Shakers

Neil G. Becker joined Pepe & Hazard in Hartford as counsel. Becker was previously in private practice...

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Which Is Worse: Meditation Or Airline Travel?

Know what I hate? Meditation. Admitting that isn’t easy, because lots of people I admire swear by...

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Tribe Cutting Workers As Foxwoods’ Sales Slip

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is cutting about 20 percent of its government work force through buyouts...

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A TOAST AT TUNXIS

The Wallace Barnes and Barbara Hackman Franklin Art Gallery was dedicated at a ceremony at Tunxis Community...

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Economic Driver

When the Connecticut Convention Center opened in Hartford three years ago this month, the staff got very...

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A New Path

A successful workplace creates an atmosphere of cooperation. It puts everyone — from the lowest paid worker...

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WWE’s McMahons Are In It For Love, Not Money

Notwithstanding this publication’s name, I sometimes browse SEC filings of companies outside the Hartford area. This is...

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Dead-End Car Wash Job To Governor’s Mansion?

James A. Amann has been juggling politics and private life since the fifth grade, when he balanced...

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Alpha Equity Management Teams With Praedium

Hartford-based Alpha Equity Management has announced a joint venture with Praedium Group of New York City to...

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CARE THROUGH COOKIES

Forensic Accounting Services in Glastonbury donated $500 to support the efforts of Assumption School Brownie Girl Scout...

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June 2, 2008 — State Contracts

Here are the latest bids for products and services received by the Connecticut Department of Administrative Services...

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Pratt Street Restaurant Put On Hold

The construction of a new restaurant on Pratt Street has been halted by city officials due to...

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Insurers Must Recruit From Generations X, Y

Let’s face it. Today’s society is always on the move, looking for the next best thing, easily...

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Are Commodities The Next Major Financial Bubble?

PotashCorp isn’t what you would call a glamour stock: It makes fertilizer. Nevertheless, the stock has soared...

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ING’s Windsor Headquarters Wins Governor’s ‘Green’ Award

Although its signature color is orange, ING is embracing another color: green. The company’s new 475,000- square-foot...

Manufacturing

Lydall Adds Energy Surcharge

Manchester-based Lydall Inc.’s Performance Materials division will institute an energy surcharge effective July 1 on all shipments...

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Hotel Guests Come First For New Hilton GM

After he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1980 with a degree in city planning and...

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KOOZA IN HARTFORD

The East Coast premiere of KOOZA, the newest show from Cirque du Soleil, was celebrated inside the...

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June 2, 2008 — OF NOTE

• Visual Concepts Inc. in Bloomfield won an American In-House Design Award from Graphic Design USA Magazine...

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Political Deals Paper Over ‘Irreconcilable Differences’

There are always going to be tensions in any governmental marriage. Take 874 million really, really ego-driven...

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YEAR END ROUNDUP

United Way of the Capital Area celebrated their successful year at an annual meeting. Pictured, from left,...

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Charter Oak College Partners With Business

Charter Oak State College, the state’s distance learning university, has launched a new corporate partnership program aimed...

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20-Year Pact Jacks Costs

For Connecticut lawmakers struggling to cope with the state’s mounting deficit, there is one skyrocketing expense they...

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Rell’s Options Narrow

As lawmakers attempt to reign in government spending to close a $68 million budget gap, they have...

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