May 25, 2015 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Corporate Profile: Connecticut Water Service Inc.

Small Business

Hill finds business is alive in ‘death care’ industry

A gifted guitarist as a teenager, the stars were aligning for Howard Kenton Hill as graduation approached in 1986.

Banking & Finance

Norwich lender eyes Hartford County office

Chelsea Groton Bank, one of the nation's oldest remaining depositor-owned lenders, wants to expand for the first time its shoreline/eastern Connecticut footprint into Hartford County.

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Pratt & Whitney employees support Billings Forge profile

Members of Engineers without Borders and the Pratt & Whitney Newcomer's Club recently partnered to renovate a...

Health Care

Legislators weigh future of e-health exchange

Less than a year after the official death of a multimillion-dollar attempt to give Connecticut doctors and other caregivers a way to share patients' medical records electronically, lawmakers are grappling with how to move forward.

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Assessing the Connecticut Republic

Plato's Republic is a magnum opus of political thought. It was written 2,400 years ago at a time of political disarray in Athens, and includes Plato's blueprints for the institutions and systems he believed necessary for the creation and function of a “just” state or political entity.

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BJ’S Charitable Foundation donates to Reach Out And Read

Reach Out and Read recently received a $10,000 grant from the BJ's Charitable Foundation to purchase new...

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United Bank Foundation presents scholarships to graduating students

The United Bank Foundation Connecticut has awarded 35 scholarships totaling $65,000 to area high school and vocational...

Real Estate & Construction

NINA leads Asylum Hill’s quiet housing comeback

In the shadow of Aetna and The Hartford, Hartford's historic Asylum Hill neighborhood in recent years has quietly been undergoing a transformation.

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🔒Malloy’s symbolic electric vehicle gesture

Sometimes symbolic gestures have real-world impact.Connecticut motorists have been driving gasoline-powered cars for more than 100 years...

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Federal funds to help Lean out CT manufacturers

Q&A talks with Bonnie Del Conte, president of CONNSTEP, a Rocky Hill-based manufacturing consultant that recently secured federal funding to expand its lean training programs to more Connecticut companies.

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St Francis physician receives archbishop’s healthcare award

Dr. Daniel Diver, chief of the cardiology section at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, has been...

Legal & Courts

🔒Contract legal battles brew between OEMs, suppliers

A new battle is emerging between original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers, one in which suppliers must pay close attention to the contracts they sign.

Advertising, Media & Marketing

🔒Summer Green Guide publishes

Dive deep into the environmental law enforcement at the Connecticut Attorney General's Office, take a look back at 75 years of garbage at the Hartford Landfill, find out how to create fashionable items from trash, and check out the Mohegan Tribe's new ecofriendly venture in the Summer edition of the Connecticut Green Guide magazine.

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🔒The path from concept to investment

My friend Jeremy is passionate about what he does. He is in the field of psychology, and...

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🔒Four forces that will change business trends

“No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends” by Richard Dobbs, James Manyika and...

Nonprofits

🔒Nonprofit Profile: Community Mental Health Affiliates

Twelve Panera Breads in the Greater Hartford area recently donated $7,030 to Foodshare of Bloomfield through Panera's...

Manufacturing

🔒Report: CT ranks in bottom half of aerospace manufacturing attractiveness

Connecticut ranks 33rd in a new report measuring states' attractiveness for aerospace manufacturing — a mixed-bag position weighed down by the Nutmeg State's high wages, energy costs, and taxes, but bolstered by a strong supplier and skilled-labor base.

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