Craft: Why Making Things Matters
Carving birds? Knitting sweaters? Paper cutting? Blowing glass? If you're a crafts person, paid or unpaid, please call and tell us what it adds to your life.
View ArticleAmericans Love Local Business, But Do They Spend Accordingly?
It’s the holiday season, meaning it’s time for Americans to hit the stores for Christmas sales and New Year's bargains. This November and December, millions of shoppers will peruse the aisles of...
View ArticleClaire Leonardi Leaves Connecticut Innovations
The head of Connecticut Innovations, Claire Leonardi, has announced her resignation from the quasi-state agency. Leonardi has led Connecticut’s technology investment arm for almost three years.
View ArticleMichael Price Says Goodbye to Goodspeed
It doesn't really even make any sense what has happened at the Goodspeed Opera House every since Michael Price took over the late 1960s. East Haddam, which is conveniently located near absolutely...
View ArticleThe Wheelhouse: Inauguration Edition
It’s inauguration day in Connecticut! And it’s also Wednesday...and that means The Wheelhouse, our weekly news roundtable. How convenient is that?
View ArticleFood Trucks, Share The Lane. Food Bikes Are Merging Into The Business
When upscale food trucks roared into popularity a few years ago, the folks running them praised their rolling operations as far cheaper and simpler to launch than a bricks-and-mortar restaurant.Now,...
View ArticleDancin' in the Moonlight: Connecticut Dance Halls
This hour, we talk about two Connecticut dance halls, each springing from the vision of two very different men who took their respective dance halls down very different paths. One's dream soared,...
View ArticleNew England Brewing Company Decides to Rename Gandhi-Bot Beer
A Connecticut brewery says it will no longer use the name and likeness of Mohandas Gandhi on one of its beers following complaints that the marketing was offensive.
View ArticleConnecticut's Favorite Farmers' Market Enters Its Final Season
The well-known Coventry Regional Farmers' Market is heading into its final summer season, beginning on May 31 and running every Sunday until October. While local businesses and vendors are sad to see...
View ArticleBack9Network Suspends Operations Over Capital "Shortfall"
The Back9Network, a cable and Internet-based network devoted to golfing that opened in Hartford with state assistance nearly two years ago, has suspended operations. Without elaborating Monday, Back9...
View ArticleGoats Seized as Cornwall Farm Operator Faces Animal Cruelty Charges
A Cornwall farm operator, accused of mistreating dairy goats, has been arrested on animal cruelty charges. Tara Bryson, who operates Butterfield Farm Co. with her boyfriend, Michael Hearl, was arrested...
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Airbnb Starts Listing Homes In Cuba; Average Rate Is $43 A Night
Less than three months after the U.S. announced it will ease travel to Cuba, home rental site Airbnb is listing properties in the island nation. The average price for a room or home in Havana is...
View ArticleReport: Corporations Add to Small Biz Tax Bill
Connecticut should act to close loopholes that allow big corporations to pay less tax. That’s the recommendation of pressure group ConnPIRG, which says small businesses in the state pay thousands of...
View ArticleHartford Hosts Governors for Regional Energy Summit; the Local Implications...
Five out of six New England governors will meet in Hartford on Thursday for a closed-door energy roundtable. Together, they’ll work on developing a cooperative strategy to address some of the region’s...
View ArticleFederal Grants to UConn Faculty Suspended Over Financial Interest Disclosure
Two UConn professors who’ve been accused of misusing funds from the National Science Foundation didn’t fully read documentation that required them to disclose a conflict of interest, according to state...
View ArticleBusiness Closures Spike in Connecticut
Business closures were up sharply in Connecticut in the first quarter of this year. New data from the Secretary of the State’s office show that almost 3,300 companies closed their doors between January...
View ArticleGOP Lawmakers Hear Small Business Budget Woes
Small businesses owners descended on the Capitol to protest proposals for tax hikes in the Democrats’ draft budget. At a public hearing organized by Republican lawmakers, companies provided seven hours...
View ArticleBristol's "Art Squad" Finds New Way to Transform the City
The "cultural ninjas" are back at it, weeks after stealthily transforming five empty storefronts into beautiful, impromptu art installations. Now, Bristol's Art Squad is tackling abandoned properties.
View ArticleConnecticut Craft Beer: A New Industry is Brewing
To say Connecticut is known for its world class craft beers is not accurate-- at least not yet. But a bold band of merry (and quite innovative) beer brewers from cities all around are on a mission to...
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