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 […]
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.