May 14, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Cupid’s Arrow | How a Hartford native found his dream Web job

As an Internet actor, Nelson Castro played a sadistic Easter bunny, a dancing gorilla and a diaper-clad,...

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Why, Oh Why, Is My Lawyer’s Bill So High?

You just received the bill from the lawyers you retained on the new deal your company just...

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Movers & Shakers — May 14, 2007

Stephanie A. Simmons was appointed senior catering sales manager at the Marriott Hartford Downtown. Previously, Simmons was...

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Dinner De Light

At the organization’s 30th anniversary dinner, Operation Fuel in Bloomfield honored Connecticut Light & Power, Yankee Gas...

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Gap Widens For What Insurers, Uninsured Pay

The uninsured pay nearly three times more for hospital services than health insurers pay, and the gap...

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Retail Reigns

Retail follows rooftops. That’s the mantra that downtown Hartford developers keep trotting out to explain the lack...

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Fed’s Hands-Off Policy Could Last All Year

Federal Reserve policymakers increasingly appear poised to keep interest rates untouched for all of 2007 as they...

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A Preschool Payback? | Educating a highly trained work force starts early

What do two of the state’s top business leaders, John Rathgeber, president and CEO of the Connecticut...

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Make Sure To Measure Your Trade Show ROI

We’re less than one month from the CT XPO at the Connecticut Convention Center. Many of you...

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Of Note — May 14, 2007

OF NOTE • Citizens Financial Group Inc. was selected as the number one company on the Dave Thomas...

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Connecticut Shut Out Of Insurance Compact Standards

Last year, the insurance industry warned that that if Connecticut didn’t pass a law allowing it to...

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Companies Are Blooming In ‘Boom-Field’

In the six years since buying a small manufacturing business there, Scott Gillette has watched the northern...

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Turned On To Law

Brad Mondschein knew that he wanted to be a lawyer since his freshman year at Union College...

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Loud And Clear

The Connecticut Broadcasters Association donated $1,000 to the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, in support...

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Auto Body Shops Cross State Lines Against Insurers | Vow to join fight in alleged steering efforts

While enjoying dinner at a Friendly’s restaurant with his daughter and her friends from college, William P....

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Out Of The Park

Bank of America donated the baseball equipment to help start the Boys and Girls Clubs Rookie Baseball...

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State Contracts — May 14, 2007

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

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Contractors Working To Keep Trade Info From Public

Like the rest of us, the business community is happy to hold state government accountable for the...

Manufacturing

Manufacturing Value Rises Even As Employment Drops

Fred V. Carstensen is an economics professor at the University of Connecticut and director of UConn’s Connecticut...

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Blanket The Scene

The Hartford office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) donated 50 blankets to the Aetna Foundation Children’s Center at Saint...

Manufacturing

Sikorsky Project To Help Copters Land Safely | Sandstorms pose pivotal danger

Defense contractors are trying to solve one of the military’s most dangerous problems in desert warfare: helicopters...

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Coming Fashionably Late To The Party

When it comes to presidential politics, there may be something to not starting too early.The candidates in...

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Wide Receiving

Pat Summerall, Hall of Fame sportscaster and former New York Giants placekicker, spoke at The Open Hearth’s...

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For A Reluctant Ad Man, Letter Led To TV Job

When Tony Cashman was growing up in West Hartford, he played on the same youth baseball team...

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Non-Profit Breaks Area Fundraising Record | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation raises $1.3M at Promise Ball

It was a night to remember. The local Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation reached the impossible dream; it...

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What’s Hurting Banks? Their Own Branches | Too much expansion, too little growth is hurting community banks’ bottom lines

In November of 2005, Simsbury Bank & Trust opened a new branch in Canton. Located just west...

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Connecticut Innovations Bars Guilmartin | Former CI director’s role in failed Waterbury project prompts requirement in Plainfield wood gasification plant contract

Connecticut Innovations Inc., a quasi-public agency that administers a state fund’s investments in renewable energy projects, has...

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