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CEO Pay For 2012 In State, Country Part Of Broken System
The Hartford CourantThe AFL-CIO launched its annual database of CEO pay Monday, showing the average 2012 pay of CEOs at companies on the Standard & Poor's 500 index was $12.3-million, or 354 times more than the average American worker earned. The average of those S&P 500...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Cigna Corporation, Praxair Incorporated, AFL-CIO, CEO Pay
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Connecticut's Few Remaining Ski Areas Adapt To Warmer Winters But Face Gloomy Future
The Hartford CourantThe future of skiing in Connecticut may be as obvious as yet another warm day in December. Canadian climate change researchers have a bleak prediction for ski areas in southern New England: Within a few decades, slight changes in temperature may make it...Tags: Southington, Science and Technology, Ecosystems, Weather, Environmental Issues
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Memories Of A Favorite Tree Come Crashing Down
The Hartford CourantWhether you grew up in the city or out in the country, most everyone has a memory of their favorite tree. For me, it was the sugar maple in my front yard where a rusty nail that once held a syrup bucket stuck out and a large branch angled up like a... -
Use Caution On Trails And In Parks This Weekend
The Hartford CourantWhenever I am out in the woods, I always think I'm going to become one of those victims of fate or Murphy's Law. There is a tree leaning over the trail up ahead, so when I walk under it, the tree will fall on my head. Or the rickety, old trail bridge...Tags: Natural Resources, Middletown, Forestry and Timber, Manchester, Environmental Issues
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Exploring A Vernal Pool
The Hartford CourantIn the age before cable television, video games and the Internet my routine was pretty much the same. Wake up, get dressed, eat breakfast and go explore the natural world. Sure, there was school, sports and well, you know, girls – but nothing...Tags: Jams and Jellies, Middletown, Satellite and Cable Service, Water Restrictions, Television Industry
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In Middlefield, Future Access To Mattabesset Trail In Question
The Hartford CourantFew places are more beautiful after an ice storm than Beseck Mountain, an 800-foot-high traprock ridge that separates Middlefield from Wallingford and Meriden. The February sun illuminated the trees along the top of the ridge Thursday. Below, the apple,...Tags: Rentals, Meriden, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Colorado, Wyoming
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Visit Spring Waterfalls Across The State
The Hartford CourantAfter more than two months of winter wonderland lockdown, March is here along with melting snow and some hefty rains that are causing streams and rivers to go out of their banks and putting a little thunder into area waterfalls. Of course, there are...Tags: Vermont, Land Resources, Bodies of Water, Migration, Cheshire
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Air Line Railroad Is Alive And Well
It was like I was a child again and Christmas, Easter and the morning after losing a tooth had all been rolled into one. What event could possibly bring me back to those glorious days of anticipation and excitement? A trip across the old Air Line...Tags: Railway Transportation, Education, Transportation, Apples, Metal and Mineral
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Learn About Geocaching At Connecticut's Outdoor Gear Expo
The Hartford CourantOver the 12 years of writing about our natural world I've become this expert in all things outdoors. Or so people think. I've received questions about hiking boots, global positioning systems, geocaching, letterboxing - you name it, people have asked....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Auction Service, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Adventures In A Snowstorm
The Hartford CourantI hadn't had this much fun since the days my mom put Baggies over my feet, stuck them into boots twice my size and sent me out into the great outdoors with multiple clothing layers to navigate through the snowdrifts of yore. Years later, I was out in the...Tags: Gaming, Television, Entertainment
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Hitting The Higby Heights
I don't usually suffer from acrophobia – otherwise known as a fear of heights. That was until I ventured along the Metacomet Ridge, which extends 100 miles through central Connecticut from Long Island Sound into Massachusetts before stopping a...Tags: Vermont, Massachusetts, Bodies of Water, Long Island Sound, Charity
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Some Amish find safety triangles too blingy
Nation NowAmish safety triangles: A Kentucky lawmaker has introduced a bill that seeks to find a workaround for an ultraconservative Amish branch that is bucking state law by refusing to affix orange safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies on the grounds that...
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