October 10, 2016 EditionEdition

🔒Nutmeg state financial credit union donates backpacks and school supplies

Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union has donated 50 backpacks filled with school supplies to children in Enfield. The supplies were donated to the nonprofit Educational Resources for Children that helps […]

🔒CT casinos focus on growing Millennial gaming experience

Move over Baby Boomers. Connecticut casinos are creating new spaces and embracing new games in an effort to pry open the wallets of Gen Xers and Millennials.

🔒Tips for tackling collective-bargaining negotiations

The campaign is over. The votes are in. Your employees have chosen to unionize. It's time to undertake the arduous task of building and maintaining a collective-bargaining agreement (CBA). What does this mean exactly? Where do you begin?

🔒Middletown digital retail marketer’s interactive experiences boost top brands

When Wearsafe co-founder David B. Benoit decided this spring to market his startup's mobile app-enabled panic button, a friend's recommendation led him to Middletown-based Reality Interactive.
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🔒CT gets on board with e-pay cards

Connecticut employers whose workers lack access to traditional deposit-banking and check-cashing services now have a paperless, electronic option to offer.

🔒Hartford’s Gillett Manor apts. sold for $2.4M

The 43-unit Gillett Manor apartments in Hartford's Asylum Hill neighborhood has sold for $2.4 million, brokers say.

🔒Nonprofits, municipalities, schools need to protect against cyberattacks

It has become an increasingly common occurrence to see data breaches at large multinational corporations that have put consumer's personal information at risk. In recent years businesses such as Anthem, Sony and Target have all been thrown into crisis thanks to hackers breaking into their systems, gaining access to protected information and causing widespread panic.

🔒Small business is no Sikorsky

We recently saw state lawmakers overwhelmingly approve a deal to entice Sikorsky Aircraft to remain in Connecticut valued at a dramatic $220 million. That's a lot of hard-earned taxpayer dollars to ensure that another large corporation does not depart Connecticut like General Electric did.
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🔒Foxwoods’ master plan could invest ‘hundreds of millions’

Big changes may be coming to the Foxwoods campus in Mashantucket.

🔒Strategies to solve your toughest problems at work

“Managing in the Gray — 5 Timeless Questions for Resolving Your Toughest Problems at Work” by Joseph...

🔒Amenta Emma Wins International Interior Design Award

Hartford's Amenta Emma Architects was selected as a winner at The International Interior Design Association's 2016 Healthcare...

🔒Caporaso’s teamwork mantra spurs growth at Clarus Commerce

Tom Caporaso likes what he sees in the new office for Clarus Commerce, the marketing-technology company that includes its flagship brand, FreeShipping.com.
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🔒Children’s Museum future relies on $25M fundraising effort

After nearly 60 years in a West Hartford building with mounting maintenance expenses and an uncertain lease, leaders of the Children's Museum say they will need to raise about $25 million over the next seven months to secure the institution's future.

🔒Farmington Bank sponsors Development Breakfast

Farmington Bank recently sponsored the town of Farmington Economic Development Commission's Breakfast Series held at the Farmington...

🔒Fractional ownership jet provider targets CT businesses, wealthy

Aer Lingus has received most of the attention lately at Bradley International Airport, but it hasn't been the only airliner trying to gain the attention — and business — of Hartford-area travelers.

🔒Vernon’s Tri-City Plaza seeks to extend $40M loan

A $40 million mortgage secured with Vernon's Tri-City Plaza Shopping Center has landed in special-servicing just weeks before it matures, while the borrower seeks a payment extension, a commercial-realty loan tracker says.
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🔒Nonprofit Profile: United Way of Connecticut

Led by UConn, a higher education alliance focused on expanding diversity in STEM fields has received $3.5...

🔒Larson’s $10B tunnel vision intriguing, but worrisome

Connecticut and Hartford in particular are in need of bold visions and Congressman John Larson's $10 billion plan to put I-84 and I-91 in tunnels to ease traffic congestion and open up Hartford to the Connecticut River, certainly qualifies.
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