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A ‘Gentleman’s C’ for Science
Report: State’s science curriculum no better than mediocreHARTFORD — A national public-education think tank has given Connecticut’s science curriculum a C in its report, “The State of Scienc...
Malloy: Let Unlicensed Workers Dispense Meds
Rule change could save $28M a year, advocates say
HARTFORD — Under Connecticut law, a home health aide can spend all day caring for you, but if you need help taking your pills, you'll need a ...
Energy Project Gets $225M Boost
PLAINFIELD — Construction on a new renewable energy project in the state got a boost of $225 million in funding.
Science Applications International Corp . and Carlyle Energy Mezzanine Opportuni...
Comfort Food for Lean Times
NEW HAVEN — It took a while, but the vacant building at Elm and Park streets finally has been filled. The corner location bordering the Yale campus turned out to be an ideal spot for Box 63,...
PerkinElmer Cuts Jobs, Outsources
SHELTON — Medical manufacturer PerkinElmer confirmed reports that it would lay off 75 workers at its Shelton facility and transfer the jobs to sites in Singapore and England, shifting producti...
SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - The Grove
From The Grove flows a ‘river’ of innovation and collaboration
The times certainly are a-changin’, and the way we view and conduct business is, too.
Whether it’s the evolving outlook of newer ...
BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - Al Subbloie
Tangoe’s Al Subbloie has lived the ups and downs of building technology companies from scratch. He prefers the ups, thank you very much
We should all have a year like Tangoe Inc., the Orange-...
CITIZEN OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - Robert Alvine
Business leader, entrepreneur, philanthropist, volunteer extraordinaire — Bob Alvine has seen and done it all
If you ask Bob Alv...
FOUNDERS AWARD 2011/12 - Hy’s Limousine Worldwide Transportation
Limo firm has lived the Hy life for more than six decades
Like father, like son?
Yes…eventually.
Matthew Levine joined the famil...
CORPORATE CITIZEN OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - Higher One
How the Elm City’s tech prodigy folded philanthropy into its core mission
Last spring, the IT department at Higher One was ale...
LEGACY AWARD 2011/12 - Hamden Hall Country Day School
Hamden Hall celebrates a centennial of molding young people into lifelong learners
It’s hardly unusual for a school to recruit...
MINORITY BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - Roberta Hoskie
From a single modest real-estate deal Roberta Hoskie has built a thriving multifaceted business
Everything ties together. And ...
Dems Push Minimum Wage Hike
HARTFORD — Minimum wage workers in Connecticut could be getting a bigger weekly paycheck starting this summer if State Rep. C...
New Haven Register To Close Plant - Print At Hartford Courant, Sell Buidling, Move Downtown
NEW HAVEN -- Shortly after Business New Haven reported on plans by the New Haven Register to restructure and relocate its new...
GREEN GUIDE 2012
Resources for Connecticut Companies Going "Green"
CT CleanEnergyOptions
ctcleanenergyoptions.com
Part of the state Department of...
2011 AIA/CT DESIGN AWARDS - Awesome Architecture
Celebrating the accomplishments of Connecticut architects and architectural projectsEach year the Connecticut chapter of the ...
BNH January 2012 Digital Issue
AIA Awards
CID Awards
Green Guide
CT Hackers
Register Newsroom to Downtown
New laws for 2012
Intern Troubles
Tangoe Dances with ProfitLine
ORANGE — Software provider Tangoe recently acquired privately held company ProfitLine Inc ., a global provider of telecom expense...
Rosa’s Not in the Red
Working-class hero DeLauro among richest members of CongressNEW HAVEN — That staunch champion of the 99 percent is herself a ...
Register To Launch ‘Open’ Newsroom
Downtown office will invite reader inputNEW HAVEN — The New Haven Register is preparing to follow the Torrington’s Register Citi...
Alexion To Buy Mass. Drugmaker
CHESHIRE — Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. says it will spend $1.1 billion to acquire Enobia Pharma Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., a...
iMedX Continues Acquisition Streak
SHELTON — Healthcare software and transcription company iMedX has acquired another medical transcription company, Houston-based...
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WWE ‘Digital Company of the Year’
STAMFORD — World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) finds itself champion in another arena — the 2011 Mashable Awards — which bestow...
Internships: Added Value or Legal Risk for Companies?
Before now Rich Meyers had never considered hiring an intern. The owner of Sterling Printing & Graphics in Milford says h...
ON THE RECORD - New Sheriff in Town
New management charts aggressive course to raise Bridgeport arena’s profileIn October Bridgeport’s Webster Bank Arena (former...
New Laws Promise Manufacturing Assistance
HARTFORD — New legislation promoting economic growth in Connecticut became effective January 1, including provisions for manu...
SMALL BUSINESS OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - The Grove
From The Grove flows a ‘river’ of innovation and collaboration
The times certainly are a-changin’, and the way we view and conduct business is, too.
Whether it’s the e...
Bespoke To Go Moroccan
NEW HAVEN — Bespoke Restaurant and Lounge, the popular College Street eatery known for its French-inspired cuisine and long-running property dispute with Yale Univer...
MINORITY BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - Roberta Hoskie
From a single modest real-estate deal Roberta Hoskie has built a thriving multifaceted business
Everything ties together. And you could say it was a few fateful decis...FOUNDERS AWARD 2011/12 - Hy’s Limousine Worldwide Transportation
Limo firm has lived the Hy life for more than six decades
Like father, like son?
Yes…eventually.
Matthew Levine joined the family business, Hy’s Limousine Worldwide Tra...
Real Estate - Leases
Sycamore Is the Way
BRANFORD –– RiteWay Crack Repair, LLC has leased 1,200 square feet of industrial space at 4 Sycamore Way . Joel Galvin of H. Pearce Commercial Real ...
R.I. Firm Buys Page Taft
GUILFORD — A Rhode Island real-estate firm has acquired the Page Taft real estate agency, expanding its Connecticut presence.
With the deal, Charlestown, R.I-based Ra...
2011 AIA/CT DESIGN AWARDS - Awesome Architecture
Celebrating the accomplishments of Connecticut architects and architectural projects
Each year the Connecticut chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA/CT...
Facelift for Tower East
NEW HAVEN — Contractors soon will be needed for renovation work at the city’s Tower East senior housing complex. The New Haven Jewish Federation Housing Corp ., which ...Minority Contract Audit
BRIDGEPORT — An independent law firm will conduct a review of and examine Bridgeport’s adherence to its minority-contracting ordinance, Mayor Bill Finch has announce...
Rosa’s Not in the Red
Working-class hero DeLauro among richest members of CongressNEW HAVEN — That staunch champion of the 99 percent is herself a member of the one percent.
That’s right: ...
It’s the Jobs, Stupid
But will Connecticut’s new ‘jobs bill’ actually put people back to work?
In August, during a visit to New Haven as part of his jobs tour, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy (pictu...CT Plays ‘Start Me Up’
Malloy plans initiative to encourage entrepreneurs
HARTFORD — While the hundreds of millions awarded to corporate giants like ESPN and UBS as part of his “First Five...
2011: The Year in Review in Marketing
A good early indicator of which way the economy is trending may be found in marketing budgets. And many early indicators point to a growth trajectory, according to ...
Devil’s Gear Recognized by Trade Publication
NEW HAVEN — Bicycling Magazine has named the Devil’s Gear Bike Shop one of the 100 best bicycle shops in the United States. In a September article headlined “On Hallowed...Curtis Goes ‘Green to Gold’
NEWTOWN —
Curtis Packaging
of Sandy Hook is cited in Daniel C. Esty’s and P.J. Simmons’ recently released
Green to Gold Business Playbook
as an exemplar of implementing ...
Social Media Powers UI
NEW HAVEN — In what it calls an effort to provide better and faster communications, the United Illuminating Co. (UI) has enhanced its social media presence. Customers,...
Malloy Seeks Vo-Tech School Upgrade
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy will propose legislation to make changes to the Connecticut Technical High School System (CTHSS) that will tailor programming to the needs of e...
Emcor’s Southern Exposure
NORWALK — Mechanical, electrical and construction services company Emcor Group has acquired Raleigh, N.C.-based Southern Industrial Constructors Inc . Southern, which ge...
P&W Powers the World
EAST HARTFORD — Pratt & Whitney has been awarded a $194.1 million long-lead contract to produce F135 engines to power the F-35 Lightning II fighter plane. The mone...
Energy Project Gets $225M Boost
PLAINFIELD — Construction on a new renewable energy project in the state got a boost of $225 million in funding.
Science Applications International Corp . and Carlyle E...
Malloy: Let Unlicensed Workers Dispense Meds
Rule change could save $28M a year, advocates say
HARTFORD — Under Connecticut law, a home health aide can spend all day caring for you, but if you need help taking y...
Fast Track for EMTs
NORTH HAVEN – Aspiring emergency medical technicians are invited to enroll in a course at Gateway Community College that will place them on the path to becoming EMTs b...
Jobs for Wounded Warriors
BLOOMFIELD — Cigna has announced it is now part of a national group of health care businesses and organizations committed to employing disabled veterans. The coalition...HCC’s Offers HC Career Path
BRIDGEPORT — Starting this month Housatonic Community College is offering two non-credit Patient Care Technician courses. The PCT Program, which adds another layer of s...
FOTL Taps Gerber Software
TOLLAND — Ubiquitous underwear and activewear maker Fruit of the Loom (FOTL) has picked the fruits of Gerber Technology — specifically the company’s YuniquePLM product l...
Nashville Picks on Sectra
SHELTON — Medical software company Sectra has signed a multi-year deal with Nashville General Hospital at Meharry.
The Tennessee hospital enlisted the company’s softwa...
Triplefy in MHT Spotlight
NEW HAVEN — Local startup company Triplefy was spotlighted on Massachusetts High Tech’s weekly Startup Watch on January 17.
The Startup Watch highlights five companies ...
$$$ For Antibiotics Research
NEW HAVEN — Antibiotics developer BioRelix Inc . has received a $500,000 investment from state technology authority Connecticut Innovations Inc . (CII)
BioRelix is develo...
INNOVATORS OF THE YEAR 2011/12 - Pickard Chilton
The architecture firm of Pickard Chilton specializes in imagining the unimaginable
Among the 100 or so architects who call New Haven home, the firm of Pickard Chilton...
Gender Gap Narrows in State
Largest cities show greatest distaff salary gains
The persistent gender gap in salaries, while mitigated from the “59 Cents” differential of the first feminist wave o...
Unemployment Rate Dips
WETHERSFIELD — In December Connecticut saw 600 more nonfarm jobs and the unemployment rate dropped 0.2 points compared with revised figures for the previous month, a...
Who's What, Where - February 2012
TD Bank has announced that Mark Crandall , the bank’s regional president for Massachusetts and Rhode Island, will lead the bank’s local leadership team in Connecticut ...
QU Biz Students Offer Tax Help
HAMDEN — Internal Revenue Service-certified student volunteers from Quinnipiac University will offer free tax preparation assistance to qualified taxpayers on Saturday...
College Endowments on the Rebound
Some state schools attain pre-recession valuesA number of small colleges have rebounded from the economic downturn that wrought havoc with endowments at many of the ...
Dems Push Minimum Wage Hike
HARTFORD — Minimum wage workers in Connecticut could be getting a bigger weekly paycheck starting this summer if State Rep. Christopher G. Donovan (D-84) of Meriden ...
UNH Revamps Exec MBA Program
New themes, new location on tap this spring
NEW HAVEN — The University of New Haven’s College of Business will offer a restructured Executive MBA (EMBA) program in sp...
LEGACY AWARD 2011/12 - Hamden Hall Country Day School
Hamden Hall celebrates a centennial of molding young people into lifelong learners
It’s hardly unusual for a school to recruit students based on their athletic gifts....
Top Execs to Team-Teach Biz at QU
HAMDEN — Four of the nation’s most prominent corporate executives are heading back to the college classroom.Robert Castrignano, principal of Sandler O’Neill + Partn...
'Achievement Gap’ Widens
NEW HAVEN — Results of the 2011 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) confirm that Connecticut continues to have the greatest achievement gap between low-...
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