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■ Reporter's Notebook: PG. 5
■ Week in Review: PG. 6
■ The List: PG. 11
■ Deal Watch: PG. 12
■ Nonprofit Notebook: PG. 17
■ Opinion & Commentary: PG. 36
Noble Energy
Ellington entrepreneur Michael W. Frisbie and his
business partner Abdul Tammo have ambitious
plans to use Connecticut as their base to build a
regional gasoline/food-service brand akin to
bigger, more familiar names as Cumberland Farms
and ExtraMart. PG. 3
Restoration Process
Paul Pita took his marketing and communications
company, The Pita Group, through what he called a
"restoration process" in the last few years. Find out
how it transformed his Rocky Hill firm. PG. 8
SPECIAL SECTION PGS. 21-34
Honoring Chief
Financial Officers
for their outstanding
performance and
commitment.
By Brad Kane
bkane@HartfordBusiness.com
B
y mid-2016, Connecticut should recover
all the jobs lost in the Great Recession.
Based on upticks this year in hiring
and a positive outlook heading into next year,
the state in the next 12 months will likely gain
back all the 119,000 jobs shed during the eco-
nomic downturn of 2008 to 2010.
That's the good news.
The bad news: That timetable would make
Connecticut one of the last states in the nation
to recover its job losses.
Slow jobs recovery
sends workers out of CT
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The top position sought by
in-state employers struggling
to fill jobs in Connecticut
is registered nurses.
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