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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This 1964 photo from Collins Aerospace, a unit of United Technologies that includes the former Hamilton Standard business, shows an early prototype of the liquid cooling garment that Hamilton invented in Windsor Locks to help prevent astronauts from overheating inside the space suit.

Dan Haar: Space industry looks back to Apollo 11, and forward

July 14, 2019

Gov. Ned Lamont spoke to reporters at Tribus Beer Company in Milford, Conn. on Monday June 24, 2019. He was joined by Democrat and Republican state lawmakers who applauded his signature on a bill increasing the amount of beer craft breweries can sell on site.

Dan Haar: Chaos is in Lamont’s style, not his staffing

July 10, 2019

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice-President Joe Biden, left, and Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., spar during the Democratic primary debate hosted by NBC News at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Thursday, June 27, 2019, in Miami. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is in the center. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Dan Haar: Blame Biden for his busing answers, not his ‘70s actions

July 1, 2019

FIFTH COURSE: Retired cow, mushroom, vegetable treacle. The bioFASHIONtech Summit on sustainable fashion, held in Stamford Monday, June 24, 2019, culminated in a dinner prepared and served by Douglas McMaster, founder and chef of Silo Restaurant of Brighton, England, billed as the world's first "zero-waste" restaurant.

Dan Haar: A sustainable, zero-waste feast in Stamford

June 26, 2019

Connecticut is losing another piece of its industrial heritage, this time an electrical components factory of Hubbell Inc. in Newtown, which employs 140 people. The Newtown plant on Prospect Drive, which opened in 1960, makes commercial and industrial wiring devices

Hubbell to close its largest Connecticut factory, in Newtown

June 25, 2019

President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut State Senate Martin Looney (center) speaks with Republican State Senator Len Fasano (back to camera) outside of the Governor William A. O'Neill Armory after the swearing in ceremony for Governor Ned Lamont in Hartford on January 9, 2019.

Dan Haar: Coaxing a Senate leader on tolls

June 21, 2019

In a project at the Stamford Town Center mall, a group called TILL, Today’s Industrial Living Landscapes, created a the bioFASHIONtech lab to develop ecological, bio-based methods of making clothing, in the spring of 2019.

Dan Haar: Jumpstarting the eco-clothing industry from a mall storefront

June 19, 2019

Rep. Gail Lavielle, R-Wilton, says the state budget for 2019-20 should not have increased spending at all.

Dan Haar: The $320M state spending hike — raises, health, education and pork

June 17, 2019

Mark Masselli, left, CEO of Community Health Center Inc., with Rep. Patricia Billie Miller, D-Stamford, after the Middletown-based group dedicated a community room at its new Stamford clinic in Miller's honor.

Rep. Miller’s honor comes from humility

June 15, 2019

Clayton Percy, chief operating officer and general manager of the Your CBD Store location in Milford, in the store with products. The store is one of nearly 400 franchised or affiliated with the Florida company Sunflora.

Dan Haar: National CBD retailer arrives with a soft sell

June 15, 2019

Uber driver accused of sexual assault in Fairfield

Fairfield legislators, Operation Hope complete annual Diaper

‘Diversity’ art show at Fairfield Library

Fairfield parties gear up for July 16 nominating meetings

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