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Many small businesses are seeking guidance as they brace for an anticipated economic downturn or recession.

If you need a tent or other party rental equipment within the next few months, you’ll want to place your order as soon as possible.

Here are ten tips small businesses can follow for a “bottom-up” approach to evaluating an income statement and planning for success.

There’s a massive effort underway to capitalize on the current momentum to improve the street level experience and create a more vibrant downtown Rochester.

The west side of the city in particular is humming with development and renovation. The Rochester Business Journal checked in on the status of three of the major projects going on in the city right now for updates:

No design is produced in a vacuum. A great design is composed of ideas drawn from a multitude of sources. In the building industry, design is often thought of as coming only from architects, interior designers and engineers but one often-overlooked principal element of design is the community’s input.

Among the mental health concerns that were exacerbated by COVID-19, one that impacts employers of all types and sizes shows no signs of slowing: employee burnout.

There can be outward signs that social media use is hurting mental health.

There was a time when Elizabeth Meeker, PsyD, the senior director of system and practice transformation for Coordinated Care Services, Inc. (CCSI), would ask a room full of mental health professionals if they had heard of trauma-informed care and nary a hand would raise.

When state lawmakers approved the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) in March 2021, one of the key provisions in the legislation called for the legal cannabis industry to benefit individuals and communities disproportionately impacted by prohibition policies and encourage their participation in the industry.

Since the Rochester Business Journal last looked at the status of regulations for recreational marijuana in New York in January 2022, momentum has begun in earnest to get the industry rolling and that pace will hasten in the months ahead.

Talk about the potential value of the legal cannabis market in New York and you’re talking big money — very big money.

Growth in digital banking accelerated during the COVID-19 lockdowns out of necessity — and with this comes a new set of challenges related to cybersecurity risk.

Unless you have an extension for your federal income tax return, your 2021 tax return should have been put to bed last month. That doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about taxes.

You have to go back to the mid-1970s to early 1980s to find inflation rates near where they have been lately, which makes it likely that this is the first time you’ve stood nose to nose with this economic bogeyman.