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Nearly 50 couples will renew their wedding vows before Friday night’s Rochester Red Wings game at Frontier Field. Mike and Marla Hamilton are bummed they won’t be able to participate in the ceremony because they’ll be out of town helping ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

As the number of cryptocurrencies available over the internet continues to grow, how they will be treated in courts and by regulators remains to be seen. History has shown that lawmakers, regulatory agencies and the judicial system are typically trailing ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law

“I’m new to managing this department and I’ve been getting increasingly frustrated with at least two ‘complainers’ on the team who mock everyone and complain about everything and everyone in their path. They generally do good work, but they are ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

Josh Allen currently is listed third on the Buffalo Bills quarterback depth chart behind starter AJ McCarron and backup Nathan Peterman. Of course, May depth charts are written in pencil, and there will be growing pressure to erase and rewrite ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.”—John Lennon When my first real-life prospective employer, Tobin’s Meat Packing, asked me why a white kid would want to work the maintenance graveyard shift with a crew that ...

Tagged with: Gerald Archibald Non-profit Management

The first several months of 2018 have given us plenty to worry about, from happenings in corporate America, to broader events involving monetary and foreign policy. After witnessing the Dow Jones Industrial Average fall over 10 percent, from Jan. 26 ...

When it was announced in the late 1970s that Syracuse University would be building a 50,000-seat domed stadium on campus, a bunch of us idealistic twenty-somethings advocated that our alma mater’s new sports playpen be named after Ernie Davis. Not ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

When you’re looking to fill a job opening, it makes sense to recruit and hire people you think will enjoy good chemistry and hit it off with your team members—people who share your core values and behave in similar ways. ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

We live in a world that is overcrowded and frankly cluttered with advertising and marketing messages. Yankelovich, a market research firm, has estimated that a person living in a modern U.S. city is exposed to over 5,000 advertising messages per ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

Lost in the tsunami of hype and hoopla that is the National Football League draft was word that the league is convening a summit next week to discuss the future of one of the game’s most exciting and violent plays—the ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Let’s start this discussion with a cautionary tale: Last year, a blog called “PopFront” posted an article entitled “Swiftly to the Right: Taylor subtly gets the lowercase kkk in formation.” The article accused country-turn-pop music singer Taylor Swift of supporting ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law

I was recently honored along with Monroe Community College President Anne Kress to have Gov. Andrew Cuomo select us as co-chairs of the ROC the Riverway advisory panel. Work is now underway by the group to develop a comprehensive plan ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

The investment industry is riddled with conflicts of interest. In a complex financial system with a wide array of financial professionals, intermediaries, products and services from which to choose, no one should be surprised that the best interests of the ...

Tagged with: David Peartree The Informed Investor

The first Buffalo Bills draft I covered back in 1985 was rather anticlimactic. The Bills already had signed Bruce Smith to a multiyear contract weeks before late NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle stepped to the podium to announce that Buffalo officially ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Organizations and their business managers love their data. And they are rolling in it. As we have covered in previous columns, there is no shortage—we live in a world of big data. Literally, every move we make creates another data ...

Tagged with: Jacqueline Mozrall