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Connecticut Can’t Help Itself, Amends Consumer Privacy Law Again
JD Supra - California
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June 16, 2025
On June 3, 2025, the Connecticut legislature passed a bill amending the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA). The amendment introduces a variety of changes, including a broadening of the CTDPA’s applicability, changed exemptions, new definitions...
L’Amy America Signs 27,461 SF Industrial Lease Renewal in Shelton, Connecticut
REBusinessOnline
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June 16, 2025
20SHELTON, CONN. — L’Amy America has signed a 27,461-square-foot industrial lease renewal in Shelton, located in southern Connecticut’s Fairfield County. The provider of eyewear products also signed a 5,016-square-foot lease for its new office...
Here’s what you can expect when the Connecticut Sun return to Boston this summer to play a game at TD Garden
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Beyond the success of bringing the WNBA to TD Garden last summer for the first time, selling out the arena, and walking out with a win, the entire experience was eye-opening to Connecticut Sun president Jennifer Rizzotti. Along with the game, the...
What You Need to Do During Your Next Trip to Connecticut
Travelbinger
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June 16, 2025
People who aren’t aware of all the fabulous things to see and do in Connecticut consider it a New England afterthought; it’s just somewhere to pass through on the way to Vermont or Maine. Sitting between the population centers of New York City and...
Ready, willing and maple? Kentucky economists say state’s syrup industry has rich potential
wkms - Kentucky
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June 16, 2025
In a side room of a Farmington, Kentucky barn sits a roaring fire underneath a large metal pan called an evaporator - warming the room with the steam it is releasing. During the peak of winter, this device is used to boil hundreds of gallons of...
Verogy and NJR Clean Energy Ventures break ground on Connecticut community solar project
Solar Power World
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June 16, 2025
Verogy, a West Hartford-based solar developer, and NJR Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), the renewable energy subsidiary of New Jersey Resources, today celebrated the groundbreaking of Glastonbury Solar One, a 3-MW community solar project located in...
Is the US undermining ‘Made in America’ apparel manufacturing?
Retail Dive
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If President Donald Trump’s trade war is meant to reshore apparel manufacturing, his immigration raids could make that difficult, if not impossible, by decimating the domestic workforce in the sector. During recent earnings calls, executives from...
Connecticut Hopes to Curb Auto Claims Arbitration by Shifting Cost to Insurers
Insurance Journal
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June 16, 2025
Connecticut lawmakers have passed a measure to shift the cost of auto insurance arbitration hearings between claimants and insurers over damage claims to the insurance industry. Currently the department of insurance absorbs the average $3,075 cost...
Employers classified under the Educational Services industry file 465 H-1B petitions in Connecticut throughout 2024
Constitution State News - Connecticut
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June 16, 2025
Ted H. Kim, Associate Director Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate for USCIS | https://www.naco.org/Ted H. Kim, Associate Director Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate for USCIS | https://www.naco.org/...
New Britain gets $2 million grant to clean-up industrial park
New Britain Herald - Connecticut
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NEW BRITAIN — A $2 million grant has been awarded to the city for abatement and clean-up activities at the New Britain Business Park located at 221 South St. “Old, polluted, blighted properties that have sat vacant for decades do nothing to...
Connecticut Closes Costly Workers’ Comp Loophole Opened by Court
Insurance Journal
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June 16, 2025
Connecticut lawmakers last month moved to plug what could have been a very costly loophole in workers’ compensation benefits that was created by a state Supreme Court decision in March. The lawmakers effectively invalidated the high court ruling...
2025 Family Biz Awards: 10. Titan Energy
Hartford Business Journal - Connecticut
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Titan Energy is an independent energy management consultancy group with in-depth knowledge of energy procurement, demand-side management, generation services, electric vehicle infrastructure, utility data management and dashboarding operating in...
Two Greater Hartford speculative warehouses hunt for tenants amid slowdown in industrial leasing
Hartford Business Journal - Connecticut
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Nearly a year after completing a 170,300-square-foot flex logistics building in Windsor, developers Luzern Associates, of Greenwich, and Boston-based Foxfield have yet to sign any tenants. They remain undeterred. In fact, the partners are so...
Eversource’s $2.4B sale of Aquarion will create a new nonprofit water authority in CT — Backers say the deal could save $350M long term; others fear it will increase consumer costs
Hartford Business Journal - Connecticut
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The Aquarion Water Authority’s (AWA) pending acquisition of Eversource-owned Aquarion Water Co. — which involves converting the company into a nonprofit, quasi-public entity — is expected to save at least $350 million over the first 10 years, once...
Stamford aims to become a hotbed for the fintech industry
Hartford Business Journal - Connecticut
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The city of Stamford has long been known to have a strong financial services sector — helped by its proximity to Manhattan — but its focus lately has been on growing its stable of financial technology companies. In recent years, a number of...
Financial industry veteran Amendola defects from national firm to form startup wealth advisory; here’s why it’s a trend
Hartford Business Journal - Connecticut
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Brett Amendola was a successful wealth advisor at a major financial firm in February 2023 when he and five colleagues defected to form a startup. Amendola left New York City-based National Financial Network, where he was a managing partner, to...
Connecticut sets aside $18.8 million to clean up contaminated land across the state
WTIC-TV - Connecticut
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June 14, 2025
The Brownfield funding will support the redevelopment of 23 properties in 19 towns and cities. Once completed, the sites could attract $218 million in investments. HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has announced the release of $18.8...
Career Seniors Bring Swahili, Ñandutí, Perseverance To Graduation
New Haven Independent - Connecticut
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June 16, 2025
Alina Rose Chen Photo President of the senior class and Valedictorian Bahati Mulungula poses for a photo with student council Treasurer Jasmine Quaye. “‘Elimu ni ufunguo wa maisha’: This is a Swahili phrase my dad always told me, meaning...
PAID POST: With rising temperatures come rising energy bills—learn what you can do to reduce electric use
The Connecticut Mirror
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June 15, 2025
Support trusted journalism in Connecticut. Join CT Mirror’s members today and make an impact. After a long, cold winter in Connecticut, summer weather is finally here and the return of those warm temperatures has many people turning on the fans...
Connecticut DOT To Address Tolland Bridge Project
Patch
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June 13, 2025
TOLLAND, CT — The Connecticut Department of Transportation has scheduled a virtual public information meeting on a project to replace a bridge on Industrial Park Road East later this month. The bridge — officially DOT Bridge No. 06975 — carries...