November 14, 2016 EditionEdition

🔒CT Invention Convention recognizes 20 years of service

The Connecticut Invention Convention board of directors, chaired by its new President John O’Toole, presented outgoing President Marcelle Wood, of UConn’s School of Engineering, with a 20-year Service Award. Pictured […]

🔒Time to turn attention to budget, Hartford’s fiscal woes

With election season now over, it's time for state lawmakers to put aside campaign rhetoric and start tackling key issues that threaten the future prosperity of Greater Hartford and the state as a whole.

🔒Telecommuting in CT growing, despite Aetna’s high-profile departure

Aetna's recent decision to curtail telecommuting to improve employee collaboration and innovation shouldn't affect overall growth in the work-from-home approach in Connecticut, according to telework proponents.

🔒CONNSTEP hosts forum for local manufacturers

Owners and senior leaders of manufacturing companies around the state recently packed the Sheraton Hartford South in...
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🔒Nonprofit Profile: Goodwin College

St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center said it has been selected by its new parent company for...

🔒Energy challenges require comprehensive approach

At a recent energy forum hosted by The New England Council, Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO New England — our region's power grid operator — described New England's electric reliability this coming winter as “precarious.”

🔒Glastonbury businesses donate thousands of diapers and baby wipes

Three Glastonbury businesses delivered 21,000 diapers and 20,000 baby wipes to the Joan C. Dauber Food Bank...

🔒Bloomfield’s 132-unit luxury apartments bow

The Arbors at Brighton Park, a 132-unit luxury apartment community in Bloomfield, opened recently.
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🔒Donors buy Winterfest another year

Many crowdfunding campaigns fall short, but not Winterfest's.

🔒Congress should repeal the medical device tax

Congress typically levies excise taxes to discourage harmful behaviors such as smoking, alcohol consumption and gambling. While those may make strategic sense, it's puzzling when there is a decision to tax a positive behavior — that is, investment in research and development (R&D) to improve patient health. Yet, that's what happened with the enactment of the medical device tax in 2012.

🔒Can higher PILOT payments save Hartford?

A long-standing state program that reimburses cities and towns for tax-exempt properties could help solve the Capital City's fiscal crisis if lawmakers would fund it to statutory levels, according to Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin.

🔒Hartford’s Vito’s by the Park leaving 20-year home

Restaurateur Rob Maffucci is preparing to vacate the downtown Hartford location of his second-oldest eatery, Vito's by the Park, opting to move a third of a mile up the road to the Prudential building at 280 Trumbull St.
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🔒8 principles for starting a business after age 40

“Late-Blooming Entrepreneurs: 8 Principles for Starting a Business After Age 40” by Lynne Beverly Strang (White Chimney...

🔒Amazon’s $105M Windsor fulfilment center sale underscores demand for industrial properties

Greater Hartford's industrial real estate market has dominated most of the commercial realty sales activity through the first half of 2016, helped largely by the sale of Amazon's new distribution center in Windsor.

🔒Greater Hartford high-end homebuyers seek tennis courts, attractive amenities

Q&A talks to Bobbi Mathues, owner of Realty World Hometown in Simsbury, about Greater Hartford's high-end housing market.
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