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Rochester members of the United Auto Workers are on strike with thousands of others across the country, protesting lack of progress on a labor contract with General Motors. Dan Maloney, president of UAW Local 1097 in Rochester, said presidents from ...

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Seven finalists have been selected for the 2018 Ethie Award, an annual honor given to local businesses and organizations by the Rochester Area Business Ethics Foundation. The finalists, chosen by an independent panel of judges, are: Excellus BCBS, a nonprofit ...

The Oneida Indian Nation is slated to host their second Doing Business with the Oneida Nation conference on Friday, Oct. 4. The half-day conference, planned through the Nation’s Office of Economic Development, is poised at attracting businesses from across New ...

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor is no stranger to adversity, having grown up in housing projects amid poverty and hardship. Her father died when she was nine, leaving her mami to raise their two children alone. Yet her mami—who ...

The Rochester region’s largest health insurer has seen success using technology to connect its members with their health care teams and manage their health outside of the doctor’s office. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield introduced a mobile app in 2016. Since it ...

To help track the impact of downtown’s ongoing evolution, the RBJ asked three stakeholders for comments. Monday: Sharon Napier, founder and partner at Partners + Napier. Today: Sergio Esteban, CEO of LaBella Associates. Wednesday: Christopher Mannelli, executive director of Geva Theatre.  ...

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The Roc Holiday Village, Rochester Fringe Festival and Super City Rochester have all taken root in downtown Rochester in recent years, combining with other long-time attractions to create an expansive variety of entertainment and events in the city’s core downtown. ...

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Zweigle’s, Rochester’s homegrown meat manufacturer, plans to build a 29,000 square-foot expansion and create 33 new job after gaining state support of about $1 million in tax breaks and outright grants.  The expansion, due to be completed in late 2022, ...

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A $1.3 million gift from an alumnus of Rochester Institute of Technology and his wife will expand a relationship between the university and the Genesee Country Village & Museum.   The two institutions have been working together under a memorandum of ...

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A Rockland County-based real estate investment firm has bought eight apartment properties that were formerly owned and managed by developer Robert Morgan. Berkley Properties LLC of Nanuet earlier this month completed the purchase of Wedgewood West in Henrietta and Brockport ...

While almost 70 percent of family-owned businesses want to pass the company onto the next generation, only about 30 percent achieve that. And when it comes to the fourth generation, only about 3 percent make it that far. A symposium ...

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Joan Malley likes to say Harbor House of Rochester Inc. doesn’t do charity, it does “fair-ity.” That’s because the nonprofit—which offers temporary lodging to out-of-town individuals who have loved ones staying at area hospitals—charges just $30 per night, or whatever ...

To help track the impact of downtown’s ongoing evolution, the RBJ asked three stakeholders for comments. First up, Sharon Napier, founder and partner at Partners + Napier. Tuesday: Sergio Esteban, CEO of LaBella Associates; Wednesday: Christopher Mannelli, executive director of ...

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For lifelong Rochesterians, it may be easy to visualize what downtown will look like when its revitalization is complete, for it may have had a similar look and feel decades ago: Millennials heading out to a hip new restaurant, flanked ...

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In the wake of a lawsuit filed in the Monroe County Supreme court by the Rochester Police Locust Monday, the Police Accountability Board Alliance has spoken out, calling the petition “anti-democratic.” In the filing, the Locust Club, which serves as ...