Dan Haar, Columnist and Associate Editor

Dan HaarColumnist and Associate Editor

Dan Haar is Columnist and Associate Editor at Hearst Connecticut Media, writing about the intersection of business, public policy and politics and how the issues affect the people of Connecticut.

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Staff members at Community eConsults Network, a nonprofit company creating a platform for electronic medical consultations, meet at the newly opened technology building in Middletown for for Community Health Center Inc. and the Weitzman Institute, which spun off eConsults.

Dan Haar: Health center for the poor begets a telemedicine pioneer

February 15, 2019

Dan Haar: Lessons for CT as corporate giants stun NY, Boston

February 14, 2019

Dan Haar: Bring a new election in Stratford! Feehan’s chance was 42 percent

February 13, 2019

Dan Haar: Himes to Amazon — CT is the place to be

February 12, 2019

Nominations open for Hearst Top Workplaces 2019

February 10, 2019

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., held a town meeting-style Q&A at Yale on Sunday as a guest of the local chapter of Every Vote Counts. Bennet, who graduated from Yale Law School in 1993, is considering running for president.

Dan Haar: A CT son from Colorado eyes White House

February 10, 2019

FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2018 file photo, new residential apartment buildings, left, and an old warehouse, right, border the Anable Basin in Long Island City, in the Queens borough of New York. Amazon will not take advantage of a federal program offering massive tax breaks when it builds headquarters in New York City. The internet shopping giant told the New York City Council this week that it had no plans to directly benefit from the Opportunity Zone program offering cuts on federal capital gains taxes as a way to spur development in downtrodden areas.

Dan Haar: Lamont jumps in as Amazon plan for New York falters

February 8, 2019

Attorney General George Jepsen in his wood paneled Hartford office on Nov. 30, 2017. Jepsen, along with his former top deputy, Perry Zinn Rowthorn, has joined Shipman & Goodwin LLP in a new practice specializing in attorney general-related work.

Dan Haar: Jepsen not exactly ‘switching teams,’ Colin

February 7, 2019

(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 14, 2019, US President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he departs the White House in Washington, DC. - Trump had a message on January 22, 2019, for Democrats counting on him to relent in the Washington arm wrestle blocking funds to swaths of the government for a record 32 days: "No Cave!" Trump's defiant tweet again blamed congressional Democrats for the chaos, insisting he will not lift his shutdown on federal government funding unless they approve his $5.7 billion plan for more walls along the US-Mexican border. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images

Dan Haar: Paid leave will pass in CT with or without Trump’s support

February 6, 2019

Former Sen. Len Suzio, R-Meriden, second from right, in a den of liberals at a press conference calling for elimination of the residential third party electric supplier market. From left, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal; Tom Swan, director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group; Rep. Peter Tercyak, D-New Britain; Suzio; and Debra St. Germain, a Connecticut AARP volunteer.

Dan Haar: Electricity sellers pick wrong guy for a fight

February 5, 2019

4 Fairfield eateries failed January health inspections

Finance board approves $2.6M bonding for school capital projects

Fairfield artist’s brush has captured many images

Judge denies town’s request to return fill pile suit to court

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