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Several times during that miserable summer of 1968, Bobby Grich second-guessed his decision to pursue a professional baseball career rather than play quarterback at UCLA. And that was understandable, given his struggles. When you strike out 126 times in 113 ...

Publicly traded corporations all have one thing in common: ready access to funds from capital markets is their life’s blood. Financing via stocks and bonds provides firms the resources needed to innovate, grow and thrive. For the last decade or ...

Economic growth continued through the second quarter as a substantial decline in COVID cases and increase in vaccination rates have spurred reopening across the country. Current expectations for the second quarter real Gross Domestic Product are around 8%, which would signal an increase from first quarter’s ...

She rowed, rowed, rowed her boat vigorously rather than gently down the stream, teaming with crewmates to win Olympic gold in London in 2012 and in Rio de Janeiro four years later. And she very well could add a third ...

This is proving to be a gut-check year for digital marketers. The lifeblood of digital advertising has been highly targeted ads delivered to users whose behavioral and demographic data was collected en masse and often without consent. While this is ...

There were about 250 of them, ranging in ages from seven to 13, and they had come to Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park last week to learn a little football from the greatest quarterback in Buffalo Bills history. Jim Kelly ...

Following the enactment of the NY SHIELD Act in March 2020 and the recent trend of increased data privacy protections for New York residents, a bipartisan group of the New York Legislature introduced Assembly Bill 27 on January 6, 2021, which proposes ...

Buildings are energy intensive. Currently, space heating and hot water are directly carbon-intensive, burning natural gas or, where gas is not available, burning heating oil or propane. Building cooling systems run on electricity, which is indirectly carbon-intensive, because when everyone ...

If you haven’t heard the term “polywork” yet, chances are you will soon. It’s the recently coined term for having more than one job at the same time. Busy polyworkers have also been referred to as “multipotentialites” and “career slashers” who enjoy “portfolio careers.” (Slasher stands for the backslash in programmer/musician/landscaper, for example.)    Whatever you ...

What can I say — your rich Uncle (Sam) wants a cut of your financial well-being each and every year, and he’s quite serious about collecting his share. When and how he goes about doing so can take many forms, ...

As far back as the fourth grade, Andy Martino had dreamed about writing short stories and novels and starting his own newspaper. Around that same time, the precocious Fairport lad with the fertile imagination became smitten with baseball. That flame ...

“I’ve been posting a job for a key member of my team for several weeks. I followed up with several candidates and scheduled in-person interviews. But I’ve been shocked at how many have not shown up for the interviews. I changed my ...

In 1882, Mark Twain made a presentation at a meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford entitled “On the Decay of the Art of Lying” in which he observed: No fact is more firmly established than that lying ...

In recent years, we have noticed a trend that should concern investors. More and more financial advisors who have been barred from the securities industry are registering as insurance agents. Many of them continue to provide financial advice to unsuspecting individuals who have no knowledge ...

There are late nights and early mornings when John Steffenhagen becomes so immersed in his research that he loses track of time while venturing back in time. Like the other day when he was on his computer until just before ...