As managing director of Hartford Stage, Michael Stotts said he thinks a lot about the competition his organization faces — and not just from cross-town venues like the Bushnell, but other facilities like XL Center and Infinity Hall, which are all chasing after the same entertainment dollars.
In the all-important battle for political advertising revenue, WFSB Channel 3 is the clear winner so far in this year's governor's race, outpacing the state's two other Hartford area TV networks by more than $2 million in gross revenues, according to a recent review of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) data by the Hartford Business Journal.
Occupancy of the first wave of converted downtown offices-to-apartments is about to start, with Brooklyn, N.Y., developer Yisroel Rabinowitz's 201 Ann Uccello property leading the way.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley says he wants to put the onus on state government to make regulations more timely and cost-effective for businesses.
There has been lots of talk on the campaign trail and among business advocates lately about the need for Connecticut to spend more on its transportation infrastructure, which most people would agree has been underfunded for years.
There may be no hotter tickets in Connecticut this fall when the UConn women's and men's basketball teams kick off their respective seasons Nov. 2 and Nov. 4 at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs by hoisting NCAA championship banners.
Bill Gates and the president of General Motors were having lunch. Gates boasted of the innovations his company had made. “If GM had kept up with technology the way Microsoft has, we'd all be driving $25 cars that get 1,000 m.p.g.”
Governor Malloy's latest economic development plan has buried its best part under another hundred million dollars in state government subsidies for particular businesses, subsidies that substitute government's judgment for the market's and pick winners and losers as a matter of political patronage.