by Joelyn Leon | Jan 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
State Comptroller Sean Scanlon announced legislation on Monday that would target companies that are under investigation for wage theft by empowering his office to cut off payments for state contracts. The bill would create a system in which the comptroller would be...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Joined by members of the legislature’s Labor Committee and representatives of organized labor for a news conference in the Legislative Office Building, Scanlon said the bill, if approved, would allow his office to take action against companies and contractors who are...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Programs that carve out participation goals for traditionally underrepresented workers on federal construction contracts may be under fire, but they’re not dead yet. That was the take from an attorney who focuses on these kinds of government initiatives after...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A proposed development with a hotel, restaurants and retail at the corner of Bridgeport Avenue and Long Hill Cross Road now includes housing. Crown Point Associates — owned by Jim Botti, Jr. and his brothers Travis and Trevor Botti — presented the updated plans to the...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Plans to build 112 units of housing at the site of a former health and rehabilitation center will be the subject of a Town Council public hearing on Tuesday. It’s the latest housing development proposal to come West Hartford’s way, which has so far been...
by Joelyn Leon | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
City officials have been discussing the 125-foot West Main Street bridge, built in 1888 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, for a quarter century – most intensely in the last half-dozen years. The bridge is so deteriorated that it has been closed...
