March 27, 2017 EditionEdition

News

🔒Day Pitney Named Law Firm of the Year by Family Wealth Report

Hartford’s Day Pitney LLP was named “Law Firm of the Year” by Family Wealth Report at its 2017 awards ceremony at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. In […]
Economy & Labor

🔒Manufacturing not the only CT sector lacking workers

Labor shortages in Connecticut's manufacturing sector have been well publicized in recent years.
Real Estate & Construction

🔒Bristol’s Brookside Apts.’ latest sale brings $7M

Bristol's 78-unit Brookside Apartments recently sold for $7 million, or $89,743 per unit, to an active New York landlord that has acquired other area multi-family properties lately, brokers say.
Economic Development

🔒Gov’t incentives need third-party oversight

State Comptroller Kevin Lembo is renewing his calls for better oversight of the state's economic incentives. He says the agency charged with handing out tax credits, grants and other perks shouldn't be determining their effectiveness, which is how the current system essentially works.
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News

🔒Ion Bank funds small business entrepreneurs

The Ion Bank Foundation has donated $10,000 to the Quinnipiac University School of Business, which will use...
Health Care

🔒HBJ launches healthcare magazine

Check out the first issue of the Hartford Business Journal's new healthcare magazine.
Education

🔒Q&A: Historical Society explores CT Inc.’s innovative roots

Q&A talks with Ilene Frank, chief curator of the Connecticut Historical Society.
News

🔒Simsbury Chamber of Commerce holds 9th annual Business Leaders Breakfast

The Simsbury Chamber of Commerce recently held its 9th annual Business Leaders Breakfast. The event was attended...
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Economy & Labor

🔒Higher rates lead to health plan market-share struggle

So far this year, Avon employee-benefits firm Robert Hensley & Associates has switched 75 percent of its small business customers to a new health insurance carrier.
News

🔒Simple steps to improve customer service

“Kaleidoscope — Delivering Innovative Service That Sparkles” by Chip R. Bell (Greenleaf Book Group Press, $15.95).Bell uses...
Energy

🔒The losing race against Tesla

Nationwide protests have erupted over the way in which corporate money, revolving-door lobbyists, and fake news are undermining our democracy in Washington. But Connecticut residents need not look beyond our state capitol to see how damaging these forces can be.
News

🔒Muccino copes with CT’s changing funeral industry

Robert Muccino Jr. recalls advice he received in mortuary school from a man who had been an embalmer in World War II. Muccino asked how he kept his work on the battlefront from getting to him.
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Economy & Labor

🔒Look no further than your own backyard for investing

Hartford recently was named one of our nation's “up-and-coming places to live” by a ranking of the 100 most heavily-populated metro areas of the country, according to quality of life, affordability and other parameters.
Education

🔒Nonprofit Profile: CT Conference of Independent Colleges

Cowen Tax Advisory Group of Hartford recently gave a $3,000 gift to CT Austim Speaks.United Way is...
Insurance

🔒The Hartford’s CEO Re-elected Chairman of Insurance association’s Board

Christopher J. Swift, chairman and CEO of The Hartford, was re-elected chairman of The American Insurance Association's...
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