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June 3, 2019Edition

🔒Businesses are not asking for a public health insurance option

Last week, I was happy to see Connecticut ranked No. 3 nationally in healthcare by U.S. News & World Report.

🔒CT isn’t so helpless in face of SEBAC contract

Everybody, including Gov. Ned Lamont, assumes that state government’s latest contract with the State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition, the infamous work of former Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General Assembly’s Democratic majority, prevents any changes in state government’s labor expenses for years to come.

Shluger’s Hartford Marathon makes a personal, community impact

Beth Shluger ran her very first Manchester Road Race in 1973, three years before women were even able to register for a bib number.

Price a pioneer in investment field diversity, and an ‘angel’ of giving

When JoAnn H. Price was president of the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) in the early 1990s, she expected to support, not lead, a new fund of funds that would seek to raise and then steer more institutional capital to ethnically and gender diverse investment professionals and their funds.
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Curiosity steered Kaman’s Keating from engineer to CEO

In an office full of artwork and awards, Neal Keating’s most treasured keepsake lies on the top shelf of a closet: a sheaf of yellowing papers torn from an easel pad.

Simsbury Bank’s Geitz puts ‘community’ in community banking

Martin J. Geitz loves the connections associated with running a community bank — from having a hand in all departments to providing a hand to local communities through loans, donations and volunteerism.

🔒Meet HBJ’s 2019 Lifetime Achievement Awards winners

Leaders who leave a lasting impression tend to be more than just good strategists. They inspire. They get the best out of their employees. They help grow their organizations. They’re innovators.

🔒Greater Hartford’s new economic plan contrasts ambitious vision with stark challenges

Greater Hartford’s economy faces monumental challenges in the years ahead, but that’s not stopping regional planners from targeting ambitious growth goals over the next half-decade.
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🔒CT companies at center of U.S. reshoring trend

New Britain’s Stanley Black & Decker is the latest U.S. manufacturer to reshore some of its operations, announcing late last month it will move production of its Craftsman wrenches from China back to the U.S.

🔒Smaller events remake Hartford’s convention calendar

Hartford’s convention business got a boost last month when several hundred visitors from the U.S., Europe and...

🔒Windsor Locks industrial-warehouse bldg. sold for $1.4M

A 52,973-square-foot Windsor Locks industrial-warehouse building has sold for $1.4 million.

🔒Realtors’ economist: CT’s housing scene not all grim

Lawrence Yun, the chief economist for the nation’s leading Realtor-member group, came to the Hartford Golf Club in late May, bearing a reassuring assessment of the Greater Hartford, Connecticut and U.S. housing markets and economies.
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🔒Art Feltman talks immigrant entrepreneurship, One World Market

Art Feltman of nonprofit International Hartford is gearing up for this summer's One World Market, an international food court and performance space meant to stimulate the local economy, and promote immigrant entrepreneurship.
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