May 1, 2023Edition

Economy & Labor

🔒Summer’s approaching: Are you ready to welcome interns?

With Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start to summer, just a few weeks away, employers may be preparing to welcome summer interns into the workplace. What are the legal requirements that may impact the hiring or […]
Small Business

🔒Reinventing Junior Achievement: A strategic plan to better prepare CT’s future leaders

Impact. That is our aim at Junior Achievement of Southwest New England — to have an impact on...
Politics & Policy

🔒Bordonaro: Capping commercial property tax rate would help Hartford, but policy likely a non-starter

A bill introduced late in the legislative session that would create incentives for redevelopment of underutilized properties...
Banking & Finance

🔒Newly-formed Blockchain Association aims to make CT a leader in industry growth, regulation

With the recent checkered history of cryptocurrencies, investing time and energy into courting blockchain technology companies might...
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Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒With a new marketing chief, CT aims to refresh its brand this summer

Among residents surveyed for a new Connecticut marketing campaign scheduled to roll out this summer, nearly 70%...
Cannabis

🔒CT lawmakers consider allowing off-site cannabis sales at events, including concerts

Cannabis retailers could soon have the ability to sell products at marijuana-centric events and festivals, much like...
Economic Development

🔒Baltimore wood-frame producer Blueprint has major CT growth plans with new Windsor facility

A Baltimore-based company that produces wood-frame construction products is planning to build a 450,000-square-foot production facility in...
Hospitality & Tourism

🔒Municipalities embrace streamlined outdoor dining permitting process

Expanded outdoor dining – permitted through a state emergency act in 2020 – was a lifeline to...
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Small Business

🔒After years of declining membership, chambers of commerce eye post-pandemic recovery as some choose merger path

Central Connecticut’s 15 largest chambers of commerce since 2018 have recorded six consecutive years of declining membership,...
Small Business

🔒Small Business Person of the Year Nash embraces fast-paced world of entrepreneurship over corporate life

Dennis Nash took the big step in 2004, when he turned down a finance position with IBM...
Economic Development

🔒Small realty investor goes on buying spree in long-neglected Hartford commercial corridor

A family-owned real estate company recently chosen by Hartford officials to redevelop a fire-scarred, half-acre site on...
Economy & Labor

🔒No degree required? Employers discuss shift to skills-based hiring amid labor shortage

Employers are rethinking their job requirements, including relying less on candidates with traditional college degrees as a...
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Economic Development

🔒Robust pipeline of major developments could reshape East Hartford

After East Hartford bought the Church Corners Inn in downtown East Hartford early this year, workers found...
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