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Guns, Budget To Take Center Stage
The Hartford CourantThe New Year marks the start of the 2013 regular session of the General Assembly on Jan. 9 as well as the beginning of the second half of Gov. Dannel Malloy's term. Events have imposed an urgent expectation of serious action on the lawmakers. What to...Tags: Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Rentals, Politics, Stamford, Fairfield (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Right-to-Work Battle Inches Toward Connecticut
The Hartford CourantConnecticut in some ways resembles Michigan, a high-wage industrial state with about the same proportion of union membership as of 2011 -- 17.7 percent here, 18.3 percent there, compared with 11.8 percent for the nation. A year ago, heck, six weeks ago,...Tags: Politics, Employees, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Economic Policy
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Can Connecticut Afford to Hand Out $860 Million in Tax Incentives to Businesses Each Year?
A new analysis by the New York Times puts the national tab at more than $80 billion a year in state and local taxpayer handouts to businesses. Those include tax breaks, low-interest loans and outright cash giveaways to encourage companies to locate in a...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), Business, Politics, NBC (tv network), Stamford
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The Top 10 Connecticut Business Stories of 2012
The Hartford CourantIn some ways, 2012 was a carryover year from news of 2011, as the governor continued his aggressive economic development spending, United Technologies Corp. consummated a deal it announced in 2011, and the year's nastiest labor strike grew out of a 2011...Tags: Politics, Alexion Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Crime, Law and Justice, South Windsor, Economy, Business and Finance
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Busway Changing The Landscape
The Hartford CourantBehind the state Armory in Hartford, workers operate the backhoes and cranes that are carving a two-story retaining wall beside the Amtrak rail line. Roughly nine miles away, more crews are preparing a new off-ramp from Route 72 up to New Britain's...Tags: Newington, Rentals, Business, Baker Corp., Travel
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Puerto Ricans Debate Whether to Become the 51st State
The news from Puerto Rico after last November's elections could not have been more clear: "Puerto Rico Approves Statehood," crowed the Washington Post. "Puerto Ricans favor statehood for the first time," read the headline on CNN.com. So nothing seemed...
Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, United Nations, U.S. House of Representatives, Democratic Party
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Protein Sciences Will Make Vaccine In NY, Still Talking To Malloy
The Hartford CourantProtein Sciences Corp., the Meriden-based drug research and development firm with a long and colorful history in Connecticut, is investing millions of dollars in a new manufacturing facility for its flu vaccine — in Rockland County, N.Y. The...Tags: West Haven, Flu Vaccine, AIDS, Politics, Disease Prevention
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Governor's Budget Cuts To Address Deficit Affects Arts Groups
Hartford CourantGov. Dannel P. Malloy's $150 million in immediate cuts to deal with a looming deficit has an effect on many arts, cultural, heritage and tourism organizations. The governor cut a total of $1,038,742 from the Department of Economic and Communuity...Tags: Cultural Development, Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, Culture, Politics, Stamford
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New Northeast Utilities Should Stay A Player
For nearly two decades, Northeast Utilities has been an unusually strong and imaginative force in economic development in Connecticut and western Massachusetts. The company's economic development and community relations department had a small core of...Tags: Northeast Utilities, NStar, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Lobbying, Business
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Connecticut Ranks Last Among 50 States In Credit Quality Analysis By Hartford-based Conning Inc.
The Hartford CourantConnecticut took a "nose dive" to last place in a report assessing the credit quality of all 50 states released Tuesday by Conning, Inc., a Hartford-based asset manager that does financial research for insurers and institutional investors. The report...Tags: Ratings, Economy, Business and Finance, Personal Income, Credit Ratings, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Boukus Running For Ninth Term in 22nd District; Saunders Seeks To Oust Her
The Hartford CourantAfter a visit to the Connecticut Tool and Manufacturing plant, state Rep. Betty Boukus declared that the state government's drive to retain businesses and train young people for 21st-century manufacturing jobs is paying off. "These are hard times, and we...Tags: Business, New Britain, Politics, Parties and Movements, Punishment
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Could Waterbury Become the Center of Connecticut's Pot-Growing Universe?
Waterbury isn’t the first place in Connecticut you might associate with marijuana growing. After all, it’s a conservative little city known more for political corruption than the cultivation of high-class weed. (Both disgraced governor-...Tags: Politics, John Rowland, Executive Branch, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Chemical Industry
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