Chris is the president and CEO of the CBIA. He and a group of more than 50 business and industry organizations are pushing for Gov. Lamont to veto the new Employer Gag Rule recently passed by the state legislator.
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Ken Girardin
The Executive Director for Public Policy for the Yankee Institute, Ken joins me to do a post-mortem of the recently concluded legislative session.
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Eric Gjede
Eric is the vice president of public policy for the Connecticut Business and Industry Association. He joins me to discuss recent legislation and the direction legislators are taking the state.
Professor Silver, the Alan Abelson Endowed Professor of Business Journalism and Financial Communications at Quinnipiac University, joins me to give her analysis of the Elon Musk Twitter acquisition and the potential collapse of Netflix.
Dereck is Founder and CEO of S.i. Systems ULC, one of the largest professional services companies in Canada. He is also the author In Defence of Wealth: A Modest Rebuttal to the Charge the Rich Are Bad for Society. We discuss the Disney self-governing debate.
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Ashley Zane
Ashley is Government Affairs Associate at CBIA, a business advocacy group. We discuss the impact of legislation that is being debated in Hartford, including the new SEBAC agreement that is rapidly nearing approval by the state legislature.
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Kenneth Rapoza
Ken is an industry analyst for the Coalition for a Prosperous America, former staff correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and a senior contributor to Forbes, covering China since 2011.
We get Ken’s take on anti-dumping and trade deals that are holding American manufacturing jobs hostage.
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Chef Andrew Gruel
Chef Gruel is the founder, CEO and executive chef for Slapfish, a seafood restaurant chain. Today we discuss the new challenges facing the restaurant industry as it tries to recover from the damage caused by the reaction to the pandemic.
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Ashley Zane
Government Affairs Analyst for the CBIA Ashly Zane joins me to discuss her testimony at recent hearings to support the manufacturing apprenticeship tax credit and expanding the Chelsea loan program.
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Scott Dolch
We catch up with the executive director of the Connecticut Restaurant Association and get an update on the state of the industry.