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State Offered Development Deal To Makers Of Gun Used In Newtown Massacre
The Hartford CourantEight days before Adam Lanza used a Bushmaster AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to kill 26 children and women on Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, state officials offered the manufacturer of the gun a development deal to move its corporate...Tags: Government, Adam Lanza, Stamford, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Executive Branch
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First Five Manufacturer Working To Save Deal After Partnership Breaks Up
The Hartford CourantEight months ago, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and state and local officials hailed an international manufacturing partnership that would fill an old industrial building on State Street in North Haven while adding more than 400 jobs. The $97 million project...Tags: Australia, Joint Ventures, Waterbury, Dannel P. Malloy , Quebecor Inc.
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Osceola is left wondering, where's Colt?
To appreciate just how badly state and local officials want to lure well-paying jobs to Florida, consider the case of Colt's Manufacturing Co. In 2011, officials promised $1.6 million in incentives to the iconic gun company, as part of a deal to open...
Tags: Government, Politics, Local Government, Executive Branch, Rick Scott
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Taxpayers Should Know How Economic Development Dollars Are Spent
As a general rule, transparency in government is a good thing — and that includes public disclosure of how the state's economic development dollars are being spent. That's especially true when governors such as Connecticut's Dannel P. Malloy are...Tags: Government, Politics, Executive Branch, Economic Policy, Dannel P. Malloy
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Other states woo Maryland's gun manufacturers
As Maryland contemplates passing one of the nation's strictest gun laws, at least seven other states have courted its gun manufacturers, offering tax incentives and open arms elsewhere. The governor of Texas, West Virginia's House speaker and an Illinois...
Tags: Government, Elections, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Rushern Baker
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MetLife Moving 2,600 Workers To North Carolina
The Hartford Courant— MetLife will consolidate operations and shift jobs to North Carolina, where it will build two new campuses in a move aimed at saving hundreds of millions of dollars by 2016. An undisclosed number of jobs will be slashed in Bloomfield and other...Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, Personal Income, MetLife Incorporated, Economy, Business and Finance
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Key Lawmaker Says Requests To Double Size Of Incentives Exempt From Oversight Unlikely To Pass
The Hartford CourantThe co-chairman of the legislature's commerce committee said Wednesday that two requests by the Department of Economic and Community Development to double the size of incentive packages that are exempt from legislative oversight are unlikely to pass. But...Tags: Small Businesses, East Hartford, Business, L. Scott Frantz
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Tourism Panel Tells Businesses: Lobby Lawmakers To Preserve State Marketing Funds
The Hartford CourantLeaders of the state tourism office, a hotel lobbying group and a regional chamber of commerce urged about 50 listeners Wednesday to lobby legislators to preserve tourism marketing funding. Randy Fiveash, who heads the state tourism office, said the...Tags: Southbury, Tourism and Leisure, Stamford, Travel, Business Trips
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Defense Worries A Microcosm Of CT Economy
The Hartford CourantThere's good news and bad news for Connecticut in the Pentagon's spending strategy for the next several years, and that reflects what's happening in the state's economy overall. The bad news is that defense spending in the state will decline by about 10...Tags: U.S. Congress, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Connecticut Business and Industry Association, Connecticut Technology Council, Consumer Confidence
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Catherine R. Kane, government administrator
Catherine R. Kane, a Harford County government administrator who earlier had worked for the Baltimore County Department of Social Services, died Feb. 12 from colon cancer at her Bel Air home. She was 65.
"She really was an important part of Social...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William Donald Schaefer, Connecticut College, Science and Technology
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Connecticut May Be at the Forefront of a Storefront Arts Movement
It used to be sort of an artistic guerilla movement: Find an empty urban storefront, take it over (with or without the owner's permission), show the public your latest funky inspiration and create some excitement and color to liven up a sad city...
Tags: Government, Fine Artists, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Elections, West Hartford
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U.S. state and territory travel offices
States and many U.S. territories have tourism offices to help visitors. When requesting travel literature, be as specific as possible. Alabama: Alabama Tourism Department, 401 Adams Ave., Suite 126, P.O. Box 4927, Montgomery, AL 36103; (800) 252-2262 or...Tags: Hampshire, Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Trips and Vacations, Phoenix (Cook, Illinois)
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