October 1, 2018 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

News

🔒Key questions CT’s gubernatorial candidates must address

Thank you candidates for seeking and accepting the nomination to be Connecticut's next governor.

Legal & Courts

🔒Prosecutors: Bloomfield fraudster lived high life as cryptocurrency venture crumbled

Homero Joshua Garza, former CEO of a now-defunct Bloomfield cryptocurrency company, will report to prison for a 21-month fraud sentence in January.

Economy & Labor

🔒Private sector must lead on workforce development

Workforce development is top of mind for most Connecticut employers. And rightfully so.The state's aging and shrinking...

Politics & Policy

🔒Larson: Business community support crucial to highway tunnel plan

Q&A talks with Congressman John Larson about his multibillion-dollar I-84/I-91 tunnel plan.

News

🔒Joel N. Lohr | President, Hartford Seminary

In an age when fewer Americans consider themselves affiliated with a religion, Joel N. Lohr says interfaith...

News

🔒Reliable and clean energy a key election issue

In HBJ's Sept. 17 article (“Could clean energy become an election issue?”) a survey by Greenberg Quinlan...

Politics & Policy

🔒Unaffiliated candidate Griebel seeks major role for private sector

R. Nelson “Oz” Griebel spent 17 years leading Hartford's regional business chamber, so it's perhaps no surprise that his gubernatorial campaign's main focus is private-sector growth.

Energy

🔒Utilities notch legal win in natural-gas fight

Eversource and Avangrid have notched a legal victory in their ongoing fight to discredit allegations that their...

News

🔒State-mandated retirement program wrong for CT

Despite what's being touted by advocates, including AARP, as a solution to a growing retirement-readiness problem, the state's controversial retirement mandate is not the answer.

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🔒Zipcar once again testing the waters in downtown Hartford

There's renewed energy behind a years-long effort to bring short-term car rental service Zipcar to downtown Hartford.

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Tolls, public-private partnerships, tariffs impact CT transportation

Q&A talks with Jennifer Carrier, a professional engineer recently hired to lead the Connecticut office of HNTB Corp., an architectural and civic engineering consulting and construction management firm.

News

🔒Pratt & Whitney employees help educate East Hartford students

Two-dozen Pratt & Whitney employees recently spent the day teaching the fundamentals of work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial...

News

🔒Yard Goats baseball team gives back to the community

The Yard Goats Foundation recently partnered with Hands on Hartford to purchase breakfast items and prepare and...

News

🔒Hoffman SummerWood Living Community donates school supplies

Hoffman SummerWood residents and staff conducted their fourth annual school supply drive to benefit a local Hartford...

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🔒Hartford embraces LimeBikes as urban-transportation option

Darin Rees would love to see the streets of Hartford turn green.

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