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Positive Futures: Lisa Rivers (DOT) & David Lee (CTTransit)

Today Positive Futures explores issues in transportation with Lisa Rivers, Transit Manager with the Dept of Transportation, and David Lee, General Manager with CT Transit.

This 30 minutes is packed with information about the bus system, including newly available accessibility features, accessing travel training and the mobility ombudsmen and new technologies that bring bus information to your phone.

Some links and contacts discussed today:

 

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Ruth Hovey

Ruth Hovey

Carroll Burton Case

Carroll Burton Case

Humbert Francis Cofrancesco

Humbert Francis Cofrancesco

Lawrence Thomas Hager

Lawrence Thomas Hager

Cristobal Rodriguez – Hildalgo

Cristobal Rodriguez – Hildalgo

Letter of Sherman Green Oct 11, 1917

Letter of Sherman Green Oct 11, 1917

Chandler letter to his parents, October 1917, “Somewhere in France”

Chandler letter to his parents, October 1917, “Somewhere in France”

Chandler letter to his parents, October 27, 1917, Southampton, England

Chandler letter to his parents, October 27, 1917, Southampton, England

Chandler letter to his parents, November 3, 1917, “Somewhere in France”

Chandler letter to his parents, November 3, 1917, “Somewhere in France”

Positive Futures: Sharon Denson, CTBLN

Sharon Denson, Executive Director, Connecticut Business Leadership Network
Sharon Denson, Executive Director, Connecticut Business Leadership Network

Sharon Denson, Executive Director of Connecticut Business Leadership Network, returns to Positive Futures to talk with Steve about perspectives of employers and their desires and concerns about diversifying.

The Connecticut Business Leadership Network is growing coalition of Connecticut employers that are working together to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities.

For more information about CTBLN, follow the link below:

Connecticut Explored- Spring 2017

Connecticut Explored- Spring '17 cover

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Spring 2017 articles:

  • Remembering World War I
  • The Connecticut National Guard on the Mexican Border
  • Letting Slip the Dogs of War
  • Connecticut Pioneers Built the U.S. Navy’s First Airship
  • SPECIAL SECTION: Connecticut State Library—Connecticut in World War I
  • The Bonus Marchers
  • Ruth Hovey, Hartford Hero
  • The 102nd Regiment on the Western Front
  • Aviation Pioneer Benjamin Foulois
  • Site Lines: Connecticut’s World War I Memorials.