As developers offer prices that state preservation programs can't match, Connecticut has lost nearly 1,000 farms and 65,000 acres of farmland in a decade — and farmers say rising taxes, energy costs and weak milk prices are making it harder to hold on.
Connecticut solar developers are racing to launch projects before a July 4 federal deadline, with businesses scrambling to qualify for a 30% tax credit set to expire under new rules that are reshaping the state's commercial renewable energy market.
Two and a half years after acquiring a Big Y-anchored shopping plaza in Ellington, a Manhattan-based investment group has recouped part of its acquisition cost through a $16 million mortgage.
Not long after the One Big Beautiful Bill was submitted to Congress in May, the phones at Ellington-based alternative energy company Earthlight Technologies began to light up.
The state Labor Department has issued stop work orders at 18 ShopRite, Stop and Shop, and Whole Foods locations in Connecticut after receiving wage complaints about the cleaning contractors.
The House voted unanimously Thursday to cancel or reduce $1 billion in bonding that would affect schools, infrastructure, and development projects across Connecticut.
Two members of the state Bond Commission this morning opposed providing $22 million in state bond funding to Bridgewater Associates, a Connecticut hedge fund that manages more than $130 billion.