September 6, 2010 Edition - Hartford Business Journal

Banking & Finance

Employees Of The Hartford Brighten up Bushnell Park

A team of 32 volunteers from The Hartford planted flowers and shrubs and performed a range of...

Politics & Policy

When ‘Dad’ Is Also ‘Boss,’ The State Wants A Role

If justice is truly blind, and if we are all equal under the law, then every single...

Small Business

Check Out Your Local Public Library

When Ben Franklin founded the first public lending library in America in 1731, he probably had no...

Transportation

Local Firms Honored For Skirting Nature

Snakes, turtles, a cemetery and slimy salamanders. Oh, and lots of endangered grass. Mother Nature...

Transportation

TIGER Eludes CT Rail, Again

In February, Connecticut’s freight railroad industry held its breath — in vain — for $109 million in...

Legal & Courts

Of Note

Cigna CEO Named Honorary Chair Of Bike MS Event Two decades before he became president and...

Retail

Target Targets Quinnipiac For Its Retail Recruiting

Target Corp., the Minneapolis-based retail giant, is targeting the future leaders studying at Quinnipiac University in...

Nonprofits

Nonprofit Reinvents Idea Of A School Play

Micaela Connery was 15 when she became an entrepreneurial change maker. As a student at Conard...

News

Even In A Tough Economy, Innovator Is Keeping Busy

Most days, Gary van Deursen steps out of his Essex home and onto the rungs of his...

Nonprofits

UTC Relay For Life Raises $150,000

United Technologies Corp. sponsored the Relay For Life of East Hartford, a 12-hour walk-a-thon for the American...

Advertising, Media & Marketing

Businesses Play Role In Hartford Movie

From Oct. 2 -21, Marty Lang and Gary Ploski will shoot the independent film, Rising Star, in...

News

St. Francis Reinventing Itself | New Patient Tower, Suburban Strategy At Core Of Plan

When St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center officials began mapping out a strategic plan about a year...

News

Movers & Shakers

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Advertising, Media & Marketing

Leadership Separates Good Bosses From Bad

“Good Boss, Bad Boss — How to be the Best and Learn from the Worst” by Robert...

Hospitality & Tourism

Expansion of Gaming Likely a Threat to CT

Q&A talks gaming with Clyde W. Barrow, director of the Center for Policy Analysis at the University...

Politics & Policy

Labor Day 2010: Times Are Changing

Labor Day is one of those pivotal points on the calendar. Summer is ending; school is starting;...

Politics & Policy

OTHER VOICES

For years Connecticut state government has been funding itself by raiding the state employee pension fund,...

Banking & Finance

Aaron Johnson, CPA, talks taxes

Q&A talks with Aaron Johnson, CPA, of Borgida & Company PC in Manchester. Q: The new health...

Manufacturing

Maker Of Cleanroom Supplies Credits Online Strategy For Growth

When the phrases ‘East Berlin’ and ‘global trade’ appear in the same sentence, the word Germany is...

Legal & Courts

Donation Aids Military Personnel

Carter Mario, president and CEO of Carter Mario Injury Lawyers, recently donated $10,000 and 10,000 digital downloads...

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