HBJ's Bordonaro Brings One Home from Milwaukee

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Congrats to Greg Bordonaro, a reporter at the Hartford Business Journal; he won a  first place award from the Alliance of Area Business Publication at a ceremony on Saturday night in Milwaukee. HBJ was up against business journals from across the country. Here’s his winning entry:

States are usually secretive about announcing economic development initiatives until they are ready for the big announcement. So, when reporter Greg Bordonaro found that the top state development official had plans to ramp up the quasi-public firm, Connecticut Innovations, to make major investments in the tech sector to create jobs, he knew it was big news. Months later, he was right, when the state made Connecticut Innovations the center of a multi-million-dollar jobs initiative.