June 22, 2009 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

News

Exploring Tourism Trend Updates

The Greater Hartford Convention & Visitors Bureau and the Greater Springfield Convention & Visitors Bureau (GSCVB) teamed...

Small Business

New Health Coverage Mandates Costly To Small Business

State lawmakers passed nearly a dozen health-benefit mandates during the recent legislative session, making Connecticut among the...

Economy & Labor

Managing Creative People To Keep Juices Flowing

Chances are you know something about Walt Disney and his cartoons, characters and the fabulous amusement parks...

Small Business

A Big Idea For Small Loans

It was an ordinary day at the San Francisco offices of Kiva — the online community that...

News

Connecticut JumpStart Coalition Support

As part of National Youth Credit Union Week, Nutmeg State Federal Credit Union donated $1,000 to the...

News

Movers & Shakers

To submit items for Movers & Shakers, please email text and high-resolution photos to news@ hartfordbusiness.com....

Nonprofits

Riverfront Recapture

Mission: The goal of Riverfront Recapture is to restore public access to the Connecticut River in Hartford...

Banking & Finance

Planning Ahead

When it comes to its leadership positions, Rockville Bank certainly plans ahead. In government filings last week,...

Banking & Finance

State Takes Aim At Dubious Debt Negotiators

Connecticut is making it harder for unscrupulous debt negotiators who make grandiose claims that they’ll dramatically reduce...

News

Wellness Programs Targeted | Workplace wellness seen as key to lowering health care costs

Companies, desperate to slice fat from their budgets during this recession, increasingly are targeting workplace wellness programs....

News

Students Rewarded for Drunken Driving Awareness

Carter Mario Injury Lawyers hosted their 4th Annual “Arrive Alive” scholarship program. This year the law firm...

News

Child Welfare Often Trumps Religious Freedom

When I was suffering from a bout of writer’s block, the editor of the Hartford Business Journal...

News

Laughing for Mental Health

Community Mental Health Affiliates (CMHA) hosted “Laughing Matters: A Night of Comedy to Support Behavioral Health Services.”...

Economy & Labor

Protecting Diversity In Workplace | Attorney Dena Castricone, founder, CT Alliance for Business Opportunities

CABO — the CT Alliance for Business Opportunities — is a LGBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) chamber...

Economy & Labor

State Contracts

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

News

A Snow Days Solution

Snowstorms in Connecticut always produce rueful chuckles when the radio announces that the governor has told “inessential”...

Manufacturing

Air Show Business

The aerospace and jet-engine divisions of Hartford’s United Technologies Corp. said last week that they signed more...

News

To Reinvent Government, Take Another Tack

One thing is certain about the state budget crisis of 2009 — it will extend into 2010....

Economy & Labor

Roll The Credits? | Movie Studio Plan Hinges On Tax Incentive Debate

Hal Katersky has a simple business plan for his California-based real estate development company. He scours the...

News

Get It Right

Where’s the common sense with the state budget proposals being proposed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell and...

Banking & Finance

Shares In Mutual Fund Companies Soar

Wall Street has many fascinating proverbs, such as “Don’t catch a falling knife,” ‘’Let your winners run,”...

Nonprofits

People’s United Community Foundation Awards $2.2 Million

The People’s United Community Foundation announced that it has awarded $2.2 million to organizations in its service...

Economy & Labor

Career Choice Driven By Being Laid Off

Paul J. Boiano laughs when asked why he left a job in Manhattan to work for Innovative...

News

Of Note

• The New England Society for Healthcare Communications honored more than 40 hospitals, agencies and health care facilities...

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