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The holidays are over. The feasting is done. You’ve looked at the scale and, once more, you’ve resolved to eat better, work out, cut down on drinking and quit several bad habits. As you contemplate opportunities to improve your personal ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz

“Three months ago, I interviewed for a management job that I was very interested in and I thought very qualified for. The interview seemed to go very well.  I followed up several times and did not hear back and then ...

Tagged with: Kathleen Driscoll Managers at Work

On Dec. 19, a 1,097-page “simplified tax code” was passed by both the House and Senate and signed into law on Dec. 22. The bill went into effect Jan. 1, with paycheck withholding changes likely starting in February. This article ...

Some of Sean McDermott’s predecessors attempted to distance themselves from it. They said they had nothing to do with creating it, acted as if they hadn’t inherited the football equivalent of a house with a gaping hole in the roof ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

The November employment report was lump of coal for Rochester area job seekers. Private sector employment in the six-county metro area declined by 2,800 or 0.6 percent from year-ago readings—the tenth time in the past eleven months that the job ...

One of the things I love most about my job is the education I receive. The people I interview and write about often teach me something not only about them but myself. Occasionally, the lessons are profound and go well ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

I get chills when a team member says Dixon Schwabl is their second family. And enormous pride when a coworker describes our culture as being like “one big family.” Nothing makes me happier, except my grandchildren’s bright smiles. Which brings ...

Tagged with: great workplaces Lauren Dixon

Santa isn’t the only one making a list and checking it twice to see who’s been naughty and nice. This jolly, old sports scribe with the round, little belly that shakes like a bowl full of jelly also has been ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

It’s that time of year. The time when columnists decide they should predict the future. They write a list of things that will happen in the next year with very little evidence or rationale. In the title of the column ...

Tagged with: Digital Marketing Karl Heberger

When most people think of insurance, they think of purchasing a policy to protect against the loss of their home or car. To an extent, this is accurate. But an insurance policy—at least a good insurance policy—is much more than ...

Tagged with: Corporate Finance James Barger

There was a late December game during the Buffalo Bills Super Bowl run when the stadium then known as Rich was packed with 80,000 people and several inches of snow that had fallen the night before. The wind-chill was so ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce was extremely pleased to receive 5-Star Accreditation from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last month. This top designation recognizes sound policies, effective organizational procedures, and a positive impact on the community. Local chambers are rated ...

Tagged with: On Business Robert Duffy

President Trump made a campaign promise to simplify the tax code. This promise may become a reality as the House approved the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Nov. 16, 2017 (House Bill) with the Senate approving its own version ...

Tagged with: Jeremy J. Wolk law

Rob Gronkowski had always been the one New England Patriots player Buffalo Bills fans could tolerate, even root for on occasion. And that was understandable because years earlier he had been one of them — a fun-loving, chicken-wing inhaling, blue-collar ...

Tagged with: On Sports Scott Pitoniak

On May 30, 2008, in Hartford, Connecticut, a horrific crime was caught on a police video camera. It recorded a 78-year-old man crossing a busy city street in broad daylight. As the man started to cross the street, two cars ...

Tagged with: Business Ethics Jim Nortz