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May 2, 2016 EditionEdition

🔒Camp Courant’s $1.7M facelift continues with new projects 

Camp Courant, the century-old suburban summer getaway for generations of Hartford's neediest and underprivileged, is preparing the next phase of upgrades as part of a $1.7 million renovation-expansion

🔒Bloomfield bottling plant opposition misguided

While GE's departure is the most salient example, two seemingly unrelated local events reveal the depth of an anti-business prejudice and its victims.

🔒CT could benefit from NY’s self-insurance restrictions

Connecticut might soon be overrun by New Yorkers — and their small businesses.

🔒Employers part of solution in closing income gap

Whether it's the national debate over a $15 minimum wage or attempts in Connecticut to fine companies that pay low wages or establish a public retirement savings plan, employee pay and benefits — or lack thereof — are constantly coming under scrutiny, particularly in a politically charged election year.
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🔒Small businesses urged to consider exporting for growth

As the District Director for the U.S. Department of Commerce, Anne Evans remains bullish about Connecticut, despite a recent report showing that the state's exports declined last year for the first time since 2009.

🔒Bill aims to strengthen student interest in manufacturing

State lawmakers are currently pondering a bill aimed at encouraging more middle and high school students to consider manufacturing careers.

🔒Coldwell Banker Sales Associate Ranked No. 1 in Sales

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage sales associate, Trish Murphy, affiliated with the company's Avon office, was recently ranked...

🔒Simple ‘smartcuts’ to achieve success easier

There are no shortcuts to success; but there are smartcuts that make success easier to achieve. Rob Fazio's 26 smartcuts are rooted in “See it, Say it, Start it.”
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🔒Beacon Prescriptions supports CMHA’s Run for Recovery

For the second consecutive year, Beacon Prescriptions of New Britain will be the lead sponsor of Community...

🔒Hartford’s budget-balancing options dwindle

As Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin and city councilors work this month to cement a budget for fiscal 2017, they won't have access to a key tool leaders have used in recent years to generate cash and plug deficits.

🔒CT employers face higher OSHA workplace-safety fines

OSHA penalties are slated to increase by as much as 80 percent in August. The fines have been frozen since 1990, but Congress authorized the increase late last year, allowing OSHA to apply 26 years of inflation to its penalty caps.

🔒Waltz shapes healthcare experiences

Kirsten Waltz's father was an orthopedic surgeon and her sister is a pediatrician — no wonder the architect has a passion for designing healthcare buildings.
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🔒West Hartford museum gets new vehicle

The Hoffman family and Auto Group donated a brand new van to The Children's Museum in West...

🔒Hunt takes helm of CT’s SBA office

Q&A talks with Anne Hunt, the new Connecticut district director of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

🔒11 honored during annual Women of Innovation awards

Eight professionals and three students were recently honored as category winners of the Connecticut Technology Council's 2016...
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