June 4, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Manufacturing

Like Plastic But Better

The secret of how to build a bouncier ball may lie hidden in a small factory on...

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Successful Hiring Techniques

Help! My company is growing, and I need more people to help us grow. But finding the...

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Hartford Business Journal Wins Multiple Journalism Awards

The Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists lauded the Hartford Business Journal with 18 awards...

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Over The Bridge

The Bridge Family Center in West Hartford presented the Bridge Business Award to Blum Shapiro in recognition...

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Home Sales Could Take A Bigger Hit

Home sales and prices will fall more sharply than expected this year, due to troubles in the...

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VNAwards

VNA HealthCare hosted the fifth annual Nightingale Awards for Excellence in Nursing gala which honored 104 nurses...

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State Job Growth Finally Reaches Significant Pace

Edward Deak is an economics professor at Fairfield University and was formerly head of the department. He...

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High Profile Attorney Reprimanded

Noted criminal defense lawyer Michael Sherman has been reprimanded by a statewide bar grievance panel after admitting...

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As Session Ends, Lobbyists Report Raking In Millions

There is still a lot to be decided between now and midnight on Wednesday, when the gavel...

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A Sick Bill

In terms of job creation, Connecticut is a laggard. For years, we have trailed all the other...

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Home Price Relief Critical | State leaders say action needed immediately for high-density housing

Many of Connecticut’s native-born young professionals still live with mom and dad – often because they can’t...

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iCare Slammed For More Violations | Company’s fourth nursing home is cited

Nursing homes aren’t supposed to lose track of their patients. Nor are they supposed to delay notifying...

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Heart Patient Risk At Hospitals To Be Public

At 8:35 a.m. on Good Friday, paramedics raced Eugene Cummiskey into Yale-New Haven Hospital in a real-world...

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More Companies Outsource Shredding Needs

Remy Fenelus doesn’t do much shredding these days at his Remy’s Custom Design tailor shop. Much of...

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Cashmere Mafia Column Was Outrageous

To The Editor:Upon first read of Larry Cohen’s May 21 column, “The Cashmere Mafia,” my immediate reaction...

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Scientists Move To Law For Patent Work

In a span of seven years, Loretta Weathers moved from a plasma physics laboratory at MIT to...

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Of Note — June 4, 2007

OF NOTE • The Central Connecticut Association for Retarded Citizens recognized Kaestle Boos Associates of New Britain...

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Story Was A Smear Campaign

To The Editor:The Hartford Business Journal on May 14 published a story, originally run in the Manchester-based...

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Neither King Nor Queen

Connecticut House Speaker Jim Amann and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have a lot in common....

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State Contracts — June 4, 2007

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

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Latest Insurance Regulator Comes With Close Ties To The Industry

If he’s not at his desk on the sixth floor of the state Insurance Department, Thomas R....

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Cargo Net | How residential freight shipping could be a big boon for Bradley International

When Kiran Jain, director of marketing and route development at Bradley International Airport, needed to purchase curtains...

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Living His Father’s Dream: Becoming A College President

While growing up in a small mill town outside of Pittsburgh, Penn., Walter Harrison, president of the...

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Hatching New Talent

The University of Connecticut’s incubators aren’t just hatching chicks. Storrs, home of the University’s Technology Incubation Program...

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Coexistence

Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez, left, joins hands with Joshua King, right, vice president of The Hartford, which...

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Working Like A Genius

If you want to summarize architecture, all you need is a brick. Lay it flat and you...

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I Didn’t Get Paid For This

During one of my gigs as a corporate guy, I treated a cadre of international internal auditors...

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High Price Of Gas Not Seen As Obstacle To Tourism | Mystic still sees millions of potential visitors

Business owners and operators in eastern Connecticut say they’re not too worried that the high price of...

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Kids Moving From Private Health Plans To State Support | Many children insured in popular government program once had private insurance

As many as half the children who get health insurance through a popular government program have previously...

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