Page 39 - Mark Mirko News Today

Manufacturers say loopholes in Buy American rules give overseas competitors the advantage Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant © Mark Mirko/Mark Mirko East Hartford, Ct. - 05/14/2021 - Horst Engineering employees work inside the new Horst Engineering facility in East Hartford. Photograph by Mark Mirko | mmirko@courant.com Neil Gilman, president of a Bozrah sports equipment manufacturer, shifted to making personal protective gear during the worst of COVID-19 last year and bid on a...

As part of its annual competition, the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists awarded the Courant the Stephen A. Collins Public Service Award for a collection of the newspaper’s coronavirus coverage titled “From deaths to lost jobs to health care, the coronavirus has changed our way of life in Connecticut.”

Tightened security notwithstanding, an eighth noose made its way onto an Amazon construction site in Windsor, Connecticut, this week, causing it to be shut down again.

Negotiators are pushing for a comprehensive budget deal in which Democratic legislators would back off from their high-profile push for major tax increases in exchange for multiple Democratic priorities.

Daily coronavirus updates: Lamont calls for Connecticut residents to travel, eat out, return to the office. Governor says its time to ‘get out of the damn house.’ Emily Brindley, Hartford Courant © Provided by Hartford Courant One week after Connecticut’s expansive reopening, Gov. Ned Lamont urged the state’s residents to return to the world — to travel, to eat out at restaurants, to work from the office. At a Wednesday press briefing at the Connecticut Convention Ce...

An ambitious plan to begin undoing decades of racial inequity by ushering in a wave of affordable housing in Woodbridge is likely to be dealt a serious blow next month, when town zoning commissioners are set to vote on a sharply scaled-back version of the proposal. The vast majority of Woodbridge, a largely white community, is made up of single-family homes. A tiny fraction of land permits ...

An attempt to spur racial equity through affordable housing in mainly white Woodbridge likely to be dealt a serious blow Eliza Fawcett, Hartford Courant © Mark Mirko/Mark Mirko Woodbridge, Ct. - 04/29/2021 - An aerial view looking to the northeast of a white, 2 story house on the corner of Orchard Road and Newton Road in Woodbridge shows the site of the Yale Law affordable housing proposal to develop the home into a 4-unit affordable housing development. Photograph by Mark Mi...

The city of Middletown is moving to revive a former industrial and commercial area along the Connecticut River with a mix of retail, entertainment, residential and public spaces.

Body of missing Connecticut mother found in woods, husband arrested Jessica Schladebeck The search for a missing Connecticut mother ended in tragedy after authorities discovered her remains in a wooded area and then arrested her husband for the brutal killing. Authorities on Friday found the “significantly decomposed body” of Jessica Edwards near the entrance to Hockanum River Linear Park, according to the Hartford Courant. South Windsor Police Spokesman Sgt. Mark Cleverdon ...

The tallest mural in Connecticut, a 100-foot image of a young woman watering flowers, has been painted at the corner of Ann Uccello and Pearl streets in Hartford.