South Meadows steps up online and print marketing. Billboards next?

Once besieged by a slew of problems — from illegal dumping to drug dealing and prostitution — South Meadows’ business owners are touting their cleaned up and improved neighborhood by launching a print and online marketing campaign.

DOL halts work at construction sites over workers’ compensation violations

State officials have issued stop work orders against more than 60 subcontractors at 30 construction sites across Connecticut in recent months in a bid to crack down on those that sidestep paying required workers’ compensation premiums and taxes.

Putting their best face forward, an increasing number of job candidates are applying for jobs by e-mailing prospective employers a video resume.

Vietnamese refugee starts mitered trim company

More than 30 years after narrowly surviving a wartime nightmare in Vietnam, Alan Vu is now living the American Dream.

In the third major shift among area auto dealers this summer, William Morande Sr. recently closed his Tolland Turnpike dealership, selling his Mazda franchise to Steve Carter and retaining a site worth more than $2 million.

U.S. Rep. Joseph D. Courtney, D-2nd District, is urging Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates not to rush the new selection decision on the $35 billion aerial refueling tanker program bids.

I once saw a handwritten note over a jar for tips: “If you fear change, leave it here.”

Inflation will likely ease in coming months, but price pressures are expected to stay elevated, keeping pressure on consumers, businesses and the Federal Reserve.

Bill McGurk’s very first job was like pulling teeth.

Trinity College is set to unveil its renovated and restored Long Walk in time for the return of students and the start of the fall semester.

Do as I say, not as I do. How many times have we heard - or practiced - that bit of advice?

Susan Andersen earned her college degree in health administration, but it was her involvement in a college phonathon that laid the groundwork for her career.

Employers and organized labor are gearing up for a titanic battle over proposed federal legislation to alter the way unions are formed and recognized by management.

In government, there are generally two ways for issues to find their way onto the agenda. They are either placed there by a politician looking to solve a problem or they are dropped on the table by general circumstances.

At the end of 2003, Congress passed the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, or FACT Act, which requires financial institutions and creditors to create and maintain written programs for identifying “patterns, practices, and specific forms of activity that indicate the possible existence of identity theft.”

Hartford needs an attitude. Sort of like Cohen.