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🔒Canton’s Roaring Brook Nature Center’s $725K redo

Canton’s Roaring Brook Nature Center is preparing in late summer to start a $725,000 renovation that also will expand the facility’s square footage by more than a third.

🔒Silver, Petrucelli & Associates earns CT Preservation Award

Hamden architectural firm Silver, Petrucelli & Associates recently won a merit award from the Connecticut Trust for...

🔒Maffucci’s newest downtown restaurant due May 15

Celebrity chef-entrepreneur Rob Maffucci is preparing to debut his new downtown Hartford restaurant concept just blocks from his former Vito's By The Park eatery.

🔒Governor yields on taxes, inviting more of the same

Connecticut residents who remember the enactment of the state income tax in 1991 can only laugh ruefully as state government's revenue collapses again, this time largely on account of falling receipts from the income tax. Twenty-six years ago the tax's advocates declared that the income tax would stabilize revenue and be much more reliable than other taxes. But now receipts from other taxes are holding up far better than those from the income tax.
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🔒Aurora Women and Girls Foundation hosts forum in Hartford

The Aurora Women and Girls Foundation, based in West Hartford, recently hosted a Building Futures for Women...

🔒Higher income taxes won’t solve CT’s problems

Alas, Connecticut's fiscal crisis has reached a new low, bringing the state and its policymakers closer to the day of reckoning.

🔒Why customers won’t buy from you

Salespeople are always alert for “buying signals,” those indications that the customer is ready to say “yes.” When this happens, the savvy salesperson knows it's time to stop talking and ask for the order.

🔒Tech industry fuels patent activity amid challenging environment

Q&A talks with Michael Cantor, co-managing partner of Hartford-based Cantor Colburn LLP, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the country.
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🔒Manufacturing exec: CT unaffordable for young workers

Capping a week in which the state's projected two-year deficit jumped from $3.6 billion to around $5 billion — raising concerns that the legislature may raise income taxes — a senior executive at Farmington manufacturer Trumpf Inc. delivered what could only be seen as a strong message to Connecticut lawmakers.

🔒Quinnipiac University President Awarded First-Ever Edward Netter Award

John Lahey, president of Quinnipiac University, was honored at the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy's Anniversary Gala...

🔒‘Science Cafes’ spark collaborative research

The ovarian cancer treatment research Dr. Pramod Srivastava is doing at UConn Health represents the kind of collaboration and convergence of scientists that the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at UConn (CICATS) supports and which it believes can advance new ways of thinking and discoveries.

🔒Niche ‘health-tech’ sector seeks to become CT hub

When Farmington-based Diameter Health's software was combing through a health system's electronic medical records recently, it found that the hospital incorrectly labeled penicillin as pain medicine.
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🔒Farmington Bank donates to nonprofits during financial literacy month

To commemorate National Financial Literacy moth, the Farmington Bank Community Foundation made donations to the Connecticut Association...

🔒9 steps to better problem solving

“Stop Guessing — The 9 Behaviors of Great Problem Solvers by Nat Greene (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, $19.95).When we...

🔒UConn doc’s vaccine aims to fight ovarian cancer

UConn Health's Dr. Pramod Srivastava has opened a clinical trial for a personalized vaccine against ovarian cancer that he hopes proves its safety and effectiveness, sets the stage for commercial development and lays the groundwork for treating other cancers.

🔒Eversource Foundation supports summer school enrichment

The Eversource Foundation recently donated $2,500 to support Ädelbrook's summer programming. Ädelbrook provides a seven week extended...
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