Texas Gov. Rick Perry arrived in Hartford on Monday, looking to make his pitch for why Connecticut companies should move to the Lone Star State.
Perry rolled up in front on Max Downtown a few minutes before noon and his staff said as many as 40 companies were invited to meet with him.
Connecticut Gov. [...]
@Gettinviggyreports that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will woo Connecticut business on Monday at the place where they do business — Max Downtown:
The courtship will take place at the Max Downtown, a Hartford restaurant mere blocks from the Capitol and the office of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, the face of [...]
On Wednesday, Courant reporter Denise Buffa talked to folks working on a Rob Reiner movie now being filmed in Fairfield. Here, she is talking to Reiner’s partner, Alan Greisman, on the set. He told her that Connecticut was chosen over Louisiana and New Mexico because of the 30 percent tax credit the state offers. [...]
The General Assembly quietly moved to suspend the state’s expensive tax credit program for movies filmed here. Except, for certain movie-making companies, as Wes Duplantier reports in today’s Courant.
The long-troubled Connecticut Studios project, it turns out, may have hit the jackpot thanks to a provision slipped into legislation approved [...]
Texas Gov. Rick Perry wants Connecticut’s jobs.
He will be in New York and Connecticut later this week. Perry’s office reports that:
The governor will host receptions in Connecticut and New York for some of the business leaders who contact the Governor’s Office through TexasWideOpenForBusiness.com while the ads are running.
These [...]
With the nation’s economy still sluggish and calls for budgets to get tighter in Washington and in Hartford, some in Connecticut’s Congressional delegation insist that the right answer is to spend more–especially on roads, bridges, railways and other projects in the Hartford area and throughout the state.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal pointed to last [...]
Even as wind and rain from Tropical Storm Andrea closes in on Hartford, most of Connecticut’s Congressional delegation and other transportation bigwigs are scheduled to to come to the state’s capital city to talk transportation in a Saturday forum.
The forum is planned for 10 a.m. at the Boathouse in Riverside Park near downtown Hartford. [...]
Below are the prepared remarks of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on the end of the 2013 regular legislative session. He spoke to a joint session of the House and Senate early Thursday morning in the House chamber:
Lt. Governor Wyman, Speaker Sharkey, President Williams, Leaders McKinney and Cafero, distinguished legislators. It’s always an honor [...]
After three hours of debate, the House gave approval Wednesday to the annual bond package Wednesday on the final day of the legislative session, sending the measure to Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
The House backed the measure in a vote of 99 to 43, mostly along party lines. The Senate approved the measure the [...]
Marketplace checks in with Kevin Segalla, president of the Connecticut Film Center. That’s Segalla below on the People’s Court set in a photo courtesy of Marketplace.
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