Connecticut-based firm to outfit pope
It’s not every day the pope’s representatives call to request a custom chair. So when the staff at Tiger Lily’s, a Greenwich interior design studio and custom workroom, were approached to make the...
View ArticleMost Connecticut hospitals face readmission penalties
All but one of Connecticut’s acute-care hospitals will lose Medicare reimbursement in 2015-16 as a penalty for high readmissions of discharged patients, new federal data show. The penalties against 28...
View ArticleDon’t back up moving van just yet. Fewer Connecticut residents moving, but...
Fewer Connecticut residents now expect to move out of the state in the next five years, according to the results of the 2015 Connecticut Consumer Confidence Survey released today by InformCT, covering...
View ArticleConnecticut Insurance Department orders lower health insurance rate hikes
The Connecticut Insurance Department on Saturday sliced the proposed 2016 rate hikes made by nearly all health insurance providers, and in some cases, lowering the rates below current levels. However,...
View ArticleMajor movie provider and Netflix cut ties
Netflix subscribers will notice that some recently released Hollywood blockbusters will disappear from the on-demand line-up soon. The company has announced it is ending its relationship with Epix, the...
View ArticleIt’s not just Hartford. Murder rates rising in cities across U.S.A.
MILWAUKEE — Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders after years of declines, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as this city. With the summer not yet over, 104...
View ArticleMost New England murders in Hartford
Two people slain in Hartford on Tuesday has placed Connecticut’s capital city in a place no community ever wants: having the most homicides in New England. Hartford has now edged Boston after two more...
View ArticleButt what? Connecticut has U.S.A.’s 4th highest cigarette tax, on road to...
Connecticut’s cigarette tax, $3.40 per pack, is the 4th highest in the nation. State cigarette tax rates vary widely, ranging from 17 cents per pack in Missouri to $4.35 in New York, according to a...
View ArticleHigh cost of insurance and repairs makes Connecticut 15th worst state for...
Connecticut is among the 15 worst states for drivers, according to a new report by Bankrate.com, which identified high repair and insurance costs as major drawbacks for Nutmeg State drivers....
View ArticleMall planned for ‘The Rent’
EAST HARTFORD- More shopping options will soon arrive in the Hartford area. On Tuesday, Horizon Group Properties, a Michigan-based owner and developer of factory outlet shopping centers, presented a...
View ArticleWhat we always knew about Greater Hartford and Stamford roadways
This story appeared on the website ctbythenumbers.info – A new study by the American Highway Users Alliance identifies America’s 50 worst bottlenecks and finds that the very worst bottleneck, as...
View ArticleUnlikely to get into Black Friday fight in Connecticut
The chances of getting into a fight at a retail outlet on Black Friday in Connecticut are unlikely, according to a study. But if you live in Arkansas, well…that’s another story all together. Click...
View ArticleConnecticut business swap: A liquor store for a book store?
Now here is a trade that has many people talking in the southern part of Connecticut; a liquor store is about to replace a book store, as reported on the website CT-Boom. According to The Hour, the...
View ArticleA Bridgeport chef says thanks to the police for saving his life
Sometimes we are just plain lucky that a police officer stops us. In the case of a Bridgeport chef, he says such an encounter saved his life, according to a story in the Connecticut Post. Michel...
View ArticleBack up the van: baby boomers and millennials leaving Connecticut in droves
To many this story comes as no surprise, but the Hartford Courant portrayed the stark reality in a lead story… For increasing numbers of native Connecticut Millennials, “home for the holidays” doesn’t...
View ArticleBlumenthal to take stand for free speech online
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s Monday press conferences usually come off as self serving, but this time he may have hit the right not… HARTFORD – U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal is using Cyber Monday to...
View ArticleWill taxpayers be hit with the move to mandate seat belts on school buses?
It seems a reasonable question, during these tough economic times, doesn’t it? Who’s going to pay for it? But the move is on to mandate seat belts in Connecticut, according to a story in the New...
View ArticleWho knew the big problem was jaywalking?
Who knew the big problem Hartford faced was jaywalking? Apparently the crackdown is on, according to WFSB TV-e. (WFSB) HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) – It is a common practice among many people, even though it...
View ArticleWest Hartford teen turns into social media star
Welcome to the 21st Century, where the path to media stardom no longer follows the usual route. Take West Hartford teenager Kyle Exum. Not only has he become an Internet sensation on Vine, a video...
View ArticleConnecticut hospitals turn up the heat on state
The war between Connecticut hospitals and the Malloy administration over the budget, not only continues on a controversial path, the story is making news even in Tacoma, Washington. That city’s...
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