Sham Death Penalty Is A Costly Luxury For State
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsThree years after his heinous crime, Steven Hayes received the death penalty sentence.
View ArticleIn Hartford, A Protest And A Movement
Social Enterprise Trust Looks To Build A New Corporate Way Get Business Mobile Text AlertsI was pleased to see that Hartford has finally joined the Occupy Wall Street movement, with a gathering...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street With Yale Economists
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsOccupy New Haven has its big launch today on the Elm City's green, but six Yale economists occupied Wall Street late Thursday, spurred by the protests across the nation.
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street With Yale Economists
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsOccupy New Haven has its big launch today on the Elm City's green, but six Yale economists occupied Wall Street late Thursday, spurred by the protests across the nation.
View ArticleSaving Jobs With The Kitchen Sink
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsWhat a week for jobs in Connecticut. On Tuesday, we spent $20 million to grab the world headquarters of NBC Sports Group to Stamford, a bargain by any measure, with a...
View ArticleA Bakery's Journey From Darkness To Light
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsIt was lunchtime at Nardi Breads Inc., but no one was thinking about eating in the dark, cold cavernous commercial bakery — not on the seventh day without power, the...
View ArticleNew CL&P Customers Waiting In The Dark Too, Perhaps Another Week
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsCordia Murphy picked a fine day to sign a lease for part of a house in Stamford, the Saturday before Halloween. She moved in two days later with her 2-year-old daughter...
View ArticleEnding Its Brief Foray Into Wireless Phone, Cox Shows Class
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsIt seemed like a natural fit when Cox Communications Inc. jumped into the wireless business this past spring. The cable companies were already selling Internet access and...
View ArticleMaking Sense Of The Busway's Huge Cost
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsThe federal government upped its support for the 9.4-mile New Britain-to-Hartford busway to $455 million on Monday, at almost the same moment when members of the...
View ArticleFear Rises Among Workers As Colt Expands In Florida, Warns of Layoffs At Home
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsDecember has brought an explosive mix of news for workers at the Colt firearms plant in West Hartford, who had a good year but are suddenly feeling less secure with...
View ArticleA Power Outage Nightmare
After Botched Restoration, Bethany Man Charged With Threatening Get Business Mobile Text AlertsAsk John Schurman what he learned in the wake of the Halloween nor'easter and he just might offer some...
View ArticleCL&P Makes Good With Bethany Man Arrested For Threatening
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsJohn Schurman, still smarting from the ordeal he endured when power crews sent 220 volts through his house after the Halloween blackout, received a surprise visitor at...
View ArticleA High-Finance Guru Takes On a High-Risk Job For Malloy
Claire Leonardi To Massively Ramp Up State's Tech Investment Get Business Mobile Text AlertsIt looks like just another political appointment, a well-connected person heading a high-profile state agency...
View ArticleA Way Forward In The NU-NSTAR Deal
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsIt seems almost anticlimactic now that Connecticut regulators have finally started holding hearings this week on the Northeast Utilities-NSTAR merger.
View ArticleGuida Family Sells Dairy Company But Says Nothing Else Will Change
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsGuida's Milk has prided itself on local family ownership for decades, as its competitors consolidate into national and regional powerhouses.
View ArticleGuida Family Sells Dairy Company But Says Nothing Else Will Change
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsGuida's Milk has prided itself on local family ownership for decades, as its competitors consolidate into national and regional powerhouses.
View ArticleAn Auctioneer's Mailing Saves Grote & Weigel
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsAdam Kramer and his colleagues at Rachael's Food Corp. nearly leaped out of their seats on Valentine's Day last week when a mailer from an auction house arrived at their...
View ArticleA Mob Mentality Gets To TicketNetwork
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsIn Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities," a mob goes after Sherman McCoy, the rich, white, Wall Street trader, when it looks like he's going to get away with a...
View ArticleNU, State Officials Preparing To Announce A Deal For Giant NSTAR Merger
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsThe last hurdle of the last hurdle in Northeast Utilities' expansion dream is about to be cleared, perhaps as soon as today.
View ArticleBuying A $50 Million Beer For Small Business
Get Business Mobile Text AlertsCurt Cameron chuckled when he read a press release this week announcing a state grant of $81,672 for a craft beer-maker in Bloomfield.
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