Friday, January 8, 2010

Business leaders: ‘State headed down wrong path’ - The New Britain Herald (newbritainherald.com)

By: Scott Whipple Staff Writer
Posted by Frank Smith at 8.1.10

2 comments:

Taxpayer said...

Scott Whipple's column in today's New Britain Herald, [Business leaders:"State headed down wrong path"] is, must reading. Nowhere in Connecticut are the premises of this column more true than right here in the city of New Britain. A quote from the late Paul Tsongas, "Brennan said Paul Tsongas, the late Democratic Senator from Massachusetts, summed up the situation when he stated, “You can’t be pro-jobs and anti-business.”

Tell that to the Democrat controlled (by Sherwood and Trueworthy) New Britain Common Council.
Phil Sherwood and his Council followers are determined to block any positive effort forwarded by Mayor Tim Stewart in New Britain to bring New Britain out of the economic doldrums. They insult potential investors, falsely accuse (without even one iota of evidence) the City's auditors of fudging figures and saying that the City hid a $10 million deficit in its budgets. Why? Because they are more interested in partisan Democrat politics than they are in the well being of New Britain and its residents.

Another quote, “Businesses are concerned about the growing anti-business sentiment in the legislature and have lost confidence in lawmakers’ ability to take actions that will stimulate the economy and increase business investment,” said Joe Brennan, CBIA’s senior vice president of public policy. “Only through investment can our companies remain competitive and keep our residents employed.”

Connecticut and its legislators are by and large, anti business and pro Democratic partisanship

January 9, 2010 at 7:48 PM
Anonymous said...

The Hartford Advocate Tuesday, December 29, 2009 edition with Rock 'n' Roll Reporter
Rick Guinness...

As with most stories, it helps to start at the beginning — not all the way to 1880 when The New Britain Herald's first issue appeared but to 1995. That year the Journal Register Company (JRC), a Pennsylvania-based newspaper chain, which owns the New Haven Register, purchased The Herald and promptly set about running it into the ground.

It also shifted The Herald's focus using its New Jersey papers as a model, the chain pushed New Britain Herald reporters to be more sensational, one-sided and aggressive — in a word, more tabloids – casting New Britain as Rock 'n' Roll City with its Award Winning Reporter Rick Guinness whose reporting style was a great tool for the Democratic political machine in New Britain.

Even today, The Herald employees happily badmouth the JRC as abusive and out of touch. It's no surprise that The Herald's circulation which stood at 33,000 when the JRC took over dropped to 7,000 by 2008.

When the JRC threatened to fold The Herald more than a dozen local politicians and officials gather together and sent letters to 16 media companies, imploring them to buy the endangered JRC papers, even offering them tax breaks, sweetheart loans and other economic incentives.

Scott Whipple's column in today's New Britain Herald, [Business leaders:"State headed down wrong path"] is must readings since Connecticut and its legislators are by and large, anti business and pro Democratic partisanship.

January 9, 2010 at 9:25 PM

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