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When John Loury and Mike Sutton moved back from Buffalo to start their own analytics company, they had a business concept and an implementation strategy, but not much else for their enterprise. They didn’t even have desks. They’ve come a ...

Billionaire Tom Golisano says the tax assessment system in New York is badly broken and he hopes a class action suit can prompt an overhaul. But to do so, he needs taxpayers to join him in the fight, and he ...

With Sam’s Club stores in Greece and Henrietta set to close on Jan. 26, refunds of membership fees will be available online, by phone or in person at one of the stores. Sam’s Club, through it’s parent company Walmart, announced on ...

Richard “Dick” Kraft was so good on the basketball court at the College at Brockport some 60 years ago that the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association drafted him. While Mr. Kraft never made it to the NBA, he ...

On a day when Walmart announced an increase in starting wages plus bonuses to hourly employees, the warehouse club branch of the Sam Walton shopping conglomerate, Sam’s Club, began preparations to close dozens of locations, including both in the Rochester ...

Close to 1,500 volleyball players from across the United States will be competing in Rochester this weekend in the Molten Can-Am Volleyball Tournament, meaning hotels and restaurants will see a welcome early January spike in business. Hosted by Pace Bootlegger, ...

The new downtown campus for Monroe Community College has been named winner of the Project of the Year Award by the Genesee Valley Branch of the American Public Works Association, or APWA. The award, in the “structures greater than $75 ...

Imagine owning a furniture store in Greece and you were required by law to tax customers 14 percent while your competitor in Fairport was required to tax customers only 8 percent. Folks at Batavia Downs Gaming say that’s the precisely ...

The New York State Department of Transportation doesn't use the calendar to determine the start of winter. Folks with the DOT use a thermometer, and they've decided winter has arrived. Thus, the construction project around the interchange of Interstate 490 and state Route 390, as well as the Lyell Road overpass and intersection, is on hiatus. Work is expected to resume in late February or early March, depending on the forecast.

For a good four years, starting in 1999, Steve Metzger spent the majority of his workweeks bringing to fruition the terminal building at the Port of Rochester. As vice president and director of civil engineering for LaBella Associates, Metzger was ...

Nearly five months have passed since the celebration of the Nick Tahou’s garbage plate by the Rochester Red Wings at Frontier Field. Plates fever, however, lives on. The front-office brainstorm to rename their baseball team the Rochester Plates for a ...

ASM Research says it plans to lay off all 36 employees at its Batavia location at the end of March. The Fairfax, Va.-based firm specializes in information solutions integration and innovative technology solutions. In a Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification, ...

More is not necessarily better, but bigger is. That’s apparently the new corporate approach for Mark’s Pizzeria. The Rochester-based restaurant chain has lopped off more than a dozen locations in recent months while continuing to expand other stores to accommodate ...

TITLE Boxing Club, which opens sometime in January in Pittsford Square Plaza, has rolled out a membership special for law enforcement personnel. All  members of local police and sheriff agencies can get lifetime memberships for $1 a month at TITLE Boxing ...

Even after an $11.4 million loss on baseball wagering in November, a one-month record for legal betting on the sport, Nevada sports books still made money for the month, and have for 52 consecutive months. That’s one reason New Jersey, ...