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Net neutrality has been back in the news recently because of a California law and a Supreme Court decision. Net neutrality is the term for government rules that prevent big internet providers from discriminating based on the user, content, website, ...

Federal tax reforms passed in late 2017 drastically overhauled the national income tax system, and businesses and accountants are preparing to file taxes under the revamped scheme for the first time. The Tax Cuts and Job Act of 2017, approved ...

High profile data breaches and email hacks have brought awareness to the need for increased cybersecurity and data protection in recent years, and local industry leaders say the business is rapidly expanding with more and more companies realizing the importance ...

In a recent study on combating cybersecurity attacks, two-thirds of 3,866 information technology  professionals surveyed across the Americas, Europe and Asia said artificial intelligence tools could reduce false alerts and increase team effectiveness. Yet, only 25 percent of the respondents ...

For the last two decades, I’ve been laboring in the corporate “vineyards” with the object of promoting strong ethical cultures in the organizations that I’ve served. Much of this effort involved the development and implementation of internal controls designed to ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

We’ve all heard the saying, “jack of all trades, master of none.” This might be used to describe your neighborhood handyman who is often helping people out with various home improvement projects. When you have a serious home renovation, however, ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

“My team is being asked to fill out yet another “confidential” employee survey on engagement. Despite numerous email reminders, most of my team members plan to ignore it or refuse to fill it out, believing that their confidentiality won’t be ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

International Art Acquisitions is currently displaying an exhibit titled Cobalt Edge. The work features artist Marcella Gillenwater’s latest series, “Cobalt,” as seen above as a blue lyrical abstract form takes shape. On display through Nov. 30. internationalartacquisitions.com

Geva Theatre Center continues its 46th season with “Thurgood.” Written by George Stevens Jr. and directed by Lou Bellamy, it’s an inspiring story about Thurgood Marshall, the first African American to sit on the United States Supreme Court. Performances run ...

Nov. 8 marks the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht—or the “Night of Broken Glass”—the Nazi-led massacre considered to be the beginning of the Holocaust that claimed six million Jewish lives and other minorities throughout Germany and Austria. The Center for Holocaust ...

The Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra presents “Primo Piano & Russian Resonance” this weekend. Miri Yampolsky will be the guest soloist for the group’s performance of Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op. 43.” Yampolsky has traveled the world performing ...

On Stage at Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music is “The Tibetan Book of the Dead,” presented by Eastman Opera Theatre. The Tibetan Book of the Dead is a manual that’s traditionally read aloud to the dying and ...

Salute to Bernstein Two remarkable forces in the music industry come together when principal pops conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Jeff Tyzik conducts a program celebrating the Leonard Bernstein Centennial. Some of Bernstein’s most notable musical theater compositions will ...

Trombonist visits Bop Shop The Rita Collective is hosting an evening of collaborative music with trombonist Melissa Gardiner next week. The Rita Collective is a chamber group from Rochester that plays original and world music with a jazzy twist. The ...