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A consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic is a shift in consumer attitudes toward the operations of businesses and a greater priority placed by them in receiving services and products from those that put safety and sustainability ahead of other things. This ...

Not too long ago, the thought of doing something online that could be done face-to-face was not generally desirable. Pre-pandemic, online shopping may have already reached mass appeal, but most of us did not want to interact “personally” online. We ...

Just when 72-year-old sportswriter Lary Bump thought he had seen it all on the baseball diamond, he wound up witnessing things he’d never witnessed before. Like an 11-run first inning. And a four-base error. And 11 pitchers being used by ...

In so many ways COVID has turned out to be the great accelerator of trends we were seeing pre-pandemic — both good and bad. Certainly, the explosion of remote work is one of the biggest. What was a trend borne ...

Businesses have never had as much access to data as they do today. In the age of digital marketing, a massive amount of information is collected on everyone and everything connected to the Internet. The ease and scale with which ...

Wish I could tell Syracuse fans the Orange hit rock bottom with last week’s loss to a Liberty University team that seemingly joined the ranks of major college football just five minutes ago. But truth be told, things could get ...

   We lost two American icons in the third quarter of 2020: the Notorious RBG and John Lewis.  This column is dedicated to them and to all the good that they fought for throughout their lives. A longtime friend of ...

The No. 1 question we are hearing from investors is some variation on the theme: “How can the stock market being doing so well (at least on a relative basis) when the economy is struggling and there is so much ...

Economic data has been trending in a positive direction during the third quarter, after cratering during the second quarter. The latest official reading for second quarter GDP was an annualized drop of 31.7%, the largest ever recorded. The drop in ...

Dropping our children off at college the first day of their freshman year was a bittersweet, heart-wrenching experience. Within the cocktail of emotions, one sensation overwhelmed me each time: The feeling of hanging on with clenched fists and all my ...

If Alex Smith had his druthers, he would have scripted a different ending Sunday afternoon. Rather than a 30-10 loss in which he put up pedestrian numbers after entering the game just before halftime, he would have rallied his Washington ...

“Our senior leaders want us to have our teams do a six-hour online training program. I know that it’s necessary to cover this material – and doing it all at one time is the way it’s always been done — ...

When Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, many businesses were excited about the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and its promise of loan forgiveness. But, as companies received PPP loans and began using the proceeds, questions ...

Recently, U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jay Powell addressed the Jackson Hole Monetary Policy Symposium and announced a major policy shift in the Fed’s approach to managing inflation. In a speech titled “Navigating the Decade Ahead,” Powell highlighted a new ...

Extrapolating numbers can be an exercise in futility, but I couldn’t help myself. So, just for the fun of it, I got out my phone calculator and did some multiplication. If Josh Allen were to continue doing what he’s done ...