Hartford Courant columnist Rick Green notes that UBS, the signature company that has been visible for years for hundreds of thousands of drivers passing by on Interstate 95, is considering pulling high-paying jobs out of Stamford.
The company moved to lower Fairfield County after receiving a huge package of tax credits from then-Gov. Lowell P. Weicker, who worked with Republican Mayor Stanley Esposito to lure the company to a site north of I-95 and near the Stamford train station.
Gov. Dannel Malloy, who became Stamford's mayor in 1995 after Weicker had cut the deal and left office, now says that "no one employer has ever made that big a difference that we should be so worried or caught up'' in his hometown.