Some businesses in our region have taken a hit because of the recent storms. At least one restaurant on the Westerly side of the Pawcatuck River has closed its doors. There is one good way to support those that are struggling to get back on their feet.
The most obvious is to patronize them. Two restaurants [...]
Tourism employs something like 140,000 people in our state, including many in the lodging industry. A tax measure pending before the state legislature would give us a hotel tax higher than Manhattan’s. Doing business in this state is costly enough already. What do you think?
Our state is blessed with an abundance of attractions that draws millions [...]
How would you rate the business climate in Connecticut? Is our state anti-business? A lot of business people would agree with that claim. There’s the tax structure, the high electric rates, an aging transportation system and a regulatory process that has been known to cause even the most mild mannered among us to be uncharacteristically boisterous, blunt even. [...]
Tourism is a vital part of our region’s economy, one that defines our area in a way that few other business sectors do. Click here to read about a Chamber event next Friday that will focus on this important subject.
Talk to people who visit eastern Connecticut, and those who relocate here, and you will hear [...]
Jim Reed, the popular radio personality on KOOL 101, summed it up best Friday morning when he said what many of us had been thinking: “What a week it’s been.”
Without question, it was one for the record books.
The images in our local media told a compelling story of people forced out of their homes, businesses [...]