November 12, 2007 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

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Pastor Puts Faith In Fixing Blighted Lots | Former night club reborn as church, day care

On Woodland Street in Hartford’s Upper Albany neighborhood, multi-story homes decay in the area between Homestead and...

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Nov. 12, 2007 — STATE CONTRACTS

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

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A Study For CEOs In How-Not-To

If you’re at Blockbuster, all the Oscar contenders are checked out, and you’re reduced to considering a...

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SOARING ON AIR

Praxair Inc. presented the New England Air Museum (NEAM) in Windsor Locks with a $12,500 grant. The...

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Marketers To Capitalize On Facebook Connections

Looking to turn its popularity with 50 million users into dollars, social-networking giant Facebook on Tuesday announced...

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A Flurry Of Fury

Thursday October 11, 2007, will not go down as a day to be proud of in the...

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Exhausted In Plainville

Plainville is an unfortunate name for a town so rich in unusual manufacturers, particularly those along Woodford...

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Wearing A Badge Of Cynicism

The dirty little secret of much state and local government is found not in any particular law...

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FUNDING THE FUTURE

First Investors donated $4,000 to the Career Services Fund of the Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU) Foundation....

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FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY

The Waterford Group Charitable Foundation donated $3,500 to Family Life Education Inc. to provide education and support...

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OF NOTE

• Leonard Leader, David Kesner and Michael Clear, trusts & estates lawyers at Wiggin and Dana in...

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Talk Radio Takes A Beat-ing | Latest ratings show music formats tops in Hartford

Listeners in the Hartford region are increasingly asking their radios to sing to them, not talk to...

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The Sales Tax Primer

There was good news for entrepreneurs last week, as Congress passed a seven-year moratorium on Internet taxes....

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Movers & Shakers

Smith Brothers Insurance in Glastonbury appointed Dave Hollenbaugh director of special accounts. Hollenbaugh most recently was agency...

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Aetna Chief One Of Four Black CEOs | Life at the top gets lonelier for black leaders in Fortune 500

It’s getting lonelier at the top for black CEOs. Only four blacks will be left running Fortune...

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NIGHT AMONG THE STARS

The Children’s Museum in West Hartford opened the Travelers Science dome with a ribbon cutting ceremony and...

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‘Cheese Lady’ Now In Higher Ed

If you have any burning questions concerning cheese, defer to the expertise of Judith Greiman. She’s currently...

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Ethics Agency Sets Different Standards For Self, Lobbyists

Data fuels the state’s initiative to monitor the legions of lobbyists who descend on Hartford. Whether it...

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Small Business Fail To Seize Online Biz

It seems like everyone has a Web site today. From corporate goliaths like Coca-Cola to the obsessed...

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A Foreclosure Eruption | Banking commissioner says nothing like it in state’s history

Connecticut’s perceived immunity to the nation’s housing market slump and credit crunch is over. Reports published last...

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HBJ Cheap Shot Was Merely Insulting Blather

To The Editor: Your recent editorial, (“Scrambled Signals,” October 29, 2007), insults the dignity of your readers...

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Connecticut Fails To Get In The Game

The state’s tax credit for filmmakers has been a big hit, wooing big and small film productions...

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Prepping For Service

Some people treat their pets like children. In other homes, kids and animals both vie for adult...

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Northern Suburbs Nabbing More Companies

Cheap rental rates and stretches of open land have drawn large companies to Hartford’s northern suburbs, filling...

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Five Elements For Building A Strong Sales Team

The sales team, more than any other functional area of the business, needs to work well. If...

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HARTFORD HOTEL HAS HEART

Forty associates from the Marriott Hartford Downtown in Hartford raised $3,070 and walked in the American Cancer...

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October’s Hefty Job Growth ‘Won’t Last,’ Economist Says | Unemployment rate holds stable, too

Better-than-expected job creation in October is cause for relief, but not celebration, as the economy remains on...

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Want The Best? Give Your Best

Acover story in Fortune Magazine way back in 1990 said that customers really only want three things:...

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