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When David Paul launched Bold & Gritty in 2020, his goal was to tell stories centered around Black men who were achieving their wildest dreams, and he wanted to use something familiar — coffee — as the vehicle to reach ...

According to Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor, nearly 80 percent of upstate New Yorkers live within 25 miles of the canal, including the historic villages of Pittsford and Fairport. A stroll along Main Street in both villages — exploring local ...

We are so proud to have hosted the ROC on Tech conference, which was held April 13th in the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center. This year’s conference was a total sellout, and we even managed to squeeze in ...

Welcome to Rochester, where there is no limit to what you can do — and no reason to do it anywhere else. After seemingly endless disruptions to every aspect of our lives over the past two years, Rochester residents and ...

Economic growth is expected to slow for the first quarter of 2022, with estimates for GDP currently hovering around 1% after finishing 2021 at 2.3%. If GDP estimates are correct, it will be our lowest quarterly reading since the second ...

It’s clear that employees have the power to successfully negotiate higher salaries and the flexibility to leave for another job should they grow restless or dissatisfied.

Social Jazz was created in 2021 with the intent of helping small business owners automate their social media to free up time to work on other parts of their business.

What do you need to stay safe in your family home, even if your home is getting to be too much? If it’s not possible to stay there, where do you want to live? Who can help you decide where ...

Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory. – Bill Russell, NBA Hall of Fame I was contacted by someone who asked for my thoughts on how to deal with a difficult co-worker. I asked what the person did ...

The journey of aging is rarely a smooth one. As older adults and their families face emotional, financial and health challenges they often find themselves struggling with difficult decisions they feel ill prepared to make. Most families “build the plane ...

The nation’s senior population is the largest and most diverse in history, according to the most recent census data from the U.S. Census Bureau. It makes sense, then, that the residential makeup of senior housing communities nationwide is more diverse ...

Contemporary discussions about the political impact of immigration in the U.S. are based on three seemingly immutable points.

Over the past decade, investors experienced a best-case scenario of relatively low inflation and strong investment returns from both stocks and bonds. A retirement portfolio could maintain or even grow in value, enabling a retiree to comfortably sustain a withdrawal ...

Financial plans differ based on individuals’ incomes, future goals, age and tolerance for risk, but often unconsidered in those plans is the impact of negative events – such as temporary loss of income or an unexpected medical expense – and ...

Ever since Russia commenced its “special military operation” (a/k/a war) in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the West has hit that nation with a unified slew of sanctions of amazing severity. In fact, no country — large or small — ...