Just read in another article that Hartford is one of many cities that is trying (or will be) to attract Amazon for their new HQ2....guess not being able to balance a budget and/or pay your outstanding debts does not bode well for a big company to want to locate there - not to mention CT’s oppressive taxes.
It doesn’t help when they offer tax breaks for big companies to re-locate; that just puts the extra road maintenance and such on the local “makers”. On top of that, the company is often required to employ a certain number of locals - regardless of whether or not those locals are employable.