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Antiquing has long been one of Pat Stark’s favorite pastimes. “I like restoring a piece and watching it come back to life,’’ the Walworth resident once told me. “It’s like preserving history.” As we learned from Stark’s glory days as ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

One of the markers of wise parenting—and exemplary leadership —is learning when to be involved and when to be uninvolved. Many who read this column are aware of their own tendencies toward excess, both at home and at work. This ...

Tagged with: John Engels leadership

Over the course of 2018, tariffs and their economic impact dominated business headlines. What began as a handful of U.S.-imposed tariffs soon precipitated retaliatory tariffs from other countries. By the end of the third quarter, these combined tariffs had encompassed ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger

In anticipation of the 1992 release of a god-awful movie about Babe Ruth, starring John Goodman, I chatted with Nick Urzetta for a column about the time the Sultan of Swat made a barnstorming appearance in Rochester. Nick, who was ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Every Christmas season, we are invited to witness the deliberate slander of one of the world’s most famous businessmen: Ebenezer Scrooge. With each showing of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” poor Mr. Scrooge must endure this onslaught alone and without ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

On Nov. 14, more than 200 medical professionals representing 70 different organizations gathered at the 2018 Healthcare Innovations Conference to learn about some of the latest technologies in healthcare. Sponsored by Pandion Optimization Alliance, the full-day event at the Rochester ...

Tagged with: health Travis Heider

 I was sitting at my desk in the newsroom during the spring of 1991 when a clerk told me I had letter from the White House. My colleagues and I began chuckling. “Yeah, right,” I guffawed, figuring the clerk was ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

While I would love to give young entrepreneurs a single, failproof secret to business success, I can’t do that. But what I can do is tell them this: To succeed in any venture, you have to have an incredible belief ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

One year ago, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was signed into law. Its centerpiece was a permanent reduction of the corporate tax rate to a flat 21 percent. It also permanently repealed the corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT). ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger

Taxpayers that invest capital gains in Rochester real estate and businesses may be eligible for significant tax benefits under a new federal program. Opportunity Zones are low-income census tracts designated by the governor of each state to incentivize investment and ...

Tagged with: Josh Gewolb Taxing Matters

On Oct. 14, L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation announced their merger—one of the biggest yet among defense contractors. Since the announcement was made, there have been many speculations about what this merger would mean for the future of Rochester’s economy, ...

I was blown away the first time I interviewed Tim Green in the summer of 1982. I was covering Syracuse University football at the time, and Green had just arrived on campus from nearby Liverpool as the “savior” recruit who ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

For years, different federal appeals courts have grappled with the question of whether discharges to groundwater are regulated under the Clean Water Act (CWA). While the question remains unanswered, recent cases have come down on both sides of the issue ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law

The enduring popularity of mutual funds can be attributed, in part, to the fact that they provide investors with access to a professionally managed portfolio at a reasonable cost. In this third column in our series about investing in mutual ...

Tagged with: Patricia Foster The Informed Investor

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays—a chance to take a brief timeout from a career and a life that lately feels as if it’s zipping by as rapidly as a ball off the barrel of Aaron Judge’s bat. It’s ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak