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As we adjust to life during, and after, the COVID-19 outbreak, families and businesses alike are faced with worrisome financial uncertainty. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order requiring that all “non-essential” workers in New York state remain at home and certain businesses ...

If you’ve attended Rochester Red Wings games at Frontier Field, you’ve probably seen and heard Tom Girot in action. Like big-birded baseball mascots Spikes and Mittsy, he’s impossible to miss. Sporting a rubbery, pointy Conehead headpiece inspired by an old ...

Corporations of all shapes and sizes are subject to millions, if not billions, of statutes, regulations, rules, directives, guidelines, decrees and executive orders. Given the pervasive and encyclopedic nature of legal mandates on corporations, one question business professionals may rightly ...

Peloton Interactive Inc., the popular fitness enterprise, came under scrutiny last holiday season for its commercial depicting a man gifting one of the company’s stationary bikes to his wife.  Before most could “work off” those festive foods consumed during the ...

In a matter of days, the coronavirus pandemic shifted to front and center in the public psyche. The first two weeks of March saw the crisis escalate from a newsworthy concern in a few global hotspots to a global pandemic. ...

Were these normal times, I’d be opining on a number of juicy sports topics this week. I’d be all over the blockbuster trade that brought wide receiver Stefon Diggs to Buffalo, giving quarterback Josh Allen the target that might make ...

Now more than ever, the combination of the current interest rate environment along with economic uncertainty calls for a more active approach to managing cash. In fact, while many companies have taken a passive approach while focused on growing their ...

I am extremely pleased that the Small Business Council of Rochester has decided to fully realign with Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce after operating as an independent membership organization under the Rochester Chamber affiliate umbrella for more than a decade.  The ...

“I’m on a new cross-departmental team that is working on an important new initiative in the company that has the potential to help improve company revenue long into the future. Unfortunately, one team member dominates every meeting, even to the point of trying ...

The spread of COVID-19, commonly known as coronavirus, is no longer under the radar and the impact is now going beyond just health concerns. Since the initial warning issued by the Chinese government in December, the virus by March 10 ...

The first event I ever covered as a Rochester sportswriter was a riveting 1984 high school basketball game between two area powerhouses. East High wound up nipping McQuaid Jesuit on some late free throws, but that’s not what I remember ...

The British medical journal the Lancet recently warned of the consequences of rising global temperatures. “Children are particularly vulnerable to the health risks of a changing climate,” noted Dr. Nick Watts, executive director of the Lancet Countdown. Co-author Dr. Stella ...

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in China and passage to multiple locations across six continents has captured everyone’s attention, and rightfully so as white-coated scientists proclaim a probable “global pandemic” and tell us to prepare for major disruptions in our lives. ...

The U.S. Department of Treasury has now finalized its rules on the Opportunity Zone program, which provides incentives for investments in low-income communities. The long-awaited final regulations were over a year in the making. They provide clarity on many issues ...

At the close of 2019, Congress quietly passed legislation known as the “SECURE Act” that makes significant changes in the rules for IRAs and other retirement plans. One effect of the legislation will be to subject some IRA distributions to ...