by Ryan McKeen
Last year, I was indifferent while the CT Legislature debated requiring restaurants to disclose nutritional information to patrons. Lazily, I bought the argument that people know that a bacon double cheeseburger is bad for them.
I figured the issue was worth revisiting here now that Congress has stepped in and passed federal legislation requiring [...]
by Ryan C. McKeen
I’ve had two contractors at my home that have fully complied with the existing Connecticut Home Improvement Act. That’s two out of many.
The truth is that the Connecticut Home Improvement Act requires full compliance by contractors with its many provisions.
This past session, the legislature passed and Governor Rell has signed a law [...]
The following situation comes up more often then you think.
A contractor performs services. Several months later, a homeowner notices a defect and calls the contractor to repair the work that was done months ago. The contractor comes out and performs the work and there’s a billing dispute.
Under Connecticut law, a contractor must file a mechanic’s [...]
This is a law blog, so it’s reasonable to ask why I’m writing about layoffs of the Hartford Courant.
The Hartford Courant Alumni blog covers the carnage.
The reason is that our state needs professional journalists. We need them to investigate, to expose, to inform, and to challenge us.
The blogosphere can’t replace professional journalism – it can only [...]
Credit-card companies continue to raise customer interest rates and fees despite a record-low target rate from the Federal Reserve and billions of dollars in bailout money that has been pumped in to the financial companies. Fox Business News.
Rates are rising all over the place even for customers with good credit.
Reading about rates increasing over 300%.
These [...]
by Ryan McKeen 1/29/2009
Yet even that number, economists said, may be just a cloud. The total number of businesses to start in Connecticut last year — 27,483 — is still 11 percent lower than the number of those that started up in 2007. The data were released Wednesday by Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz. [...]
Blawging is a marketing tool but perhaps more accurately it should be part of a marketing strategy.
It is no surprise that the candidate who mastered the internet ended up being elected president. The internet is the most powerful medium and it’s becoming more powerful. At no point in human history is it easier to connect and communicate [...]
I’ve written before about how the foreclosure crisis has impacted tenants in Connecticut.
The situation is sickening. I represented a 100 year old woman who lived alone in an apartment for close to 20 years and always paid her rent on time. She lived on the same street for over 40 years. Even at age 100, [...]
Connecticut Public Act 08-167 requires that anyone who collects social security numbers in the course of their businesses to publish a privacy protection policy that ensures the confidentiality of social security numbers, prohibits their unlawful disclosure and limits access to them.
This well-heeled town has become the first community on the East Coast to ban plastic shopping bags, a move hailed by proponents as a watershed moment that could lead to a wider change in consumer habits. David Funkhouser, The Hartford Courant, 9/5/2008
In law school, I read dozens of cases on how state’s are the laboratories [...]
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