HARTFORD - While many campaigns were taking a breather Monday from the long hours of the political party conventions, Democrat Ned Lamont came to the capital city to talk about job creation with a group of young professionals.
About a dozen attendees gathered around long tables to kick around ideas about how to improve Connecticut's image among some that it is merely a stopping point between New York and Boston. The group gathered at the University of Hartford, which is about halfway between Albany and Providence.
"All my friends are headed to D.C., New York or San Francisco,'' said Meg Evans, a 22-year-old senior at Yale University who has lived in Connecticut virtually her whole life. "That's a big pull.''
Many of her friends, she said, actually live in Manhattan and make the reverse commute to work in Stamford.
"If you go to those train stations in Fairfield County, there are as many people coming in as going out,'' Lamont responded.