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Tax Commission Proposal to Freeze Property Taxes Is a Great Start
Recently, the Tax Relief Commission led by former New York Gov. George Pataki and former Comptroller H. Carl McCall issued its recommendations to save New Yorkers $2 billion in taxes over the next three years. The commission recognized immediately that New York’s tax burden is too expensive for homeowners and is crippling the state’s economy, […]
Crunch’s Dolgon to receive 2014 CNYSME Crystal Ball Award
SYRACUSE — The Central New York Sales & Marketing Executives (CNYSME) has selected Howard Dolgon, owner, president, CEO and team governor of the Syracuse Crunch, as the winner of the 2014 Crystal Ball Award. The organization annually bestows the award to a local businessperson who has contributed to the sales and marketing profession and has
Taylor takes over as Bonadio’s Syracuse office managing partner
SYRACUSE — The Bonadio Group, which says it’s upstate New York’s largest independent accounting firm, has appointed Donald R. Taylor as managing partner in the firm’s Syracuse office. In his new role, Taylor is responsible for overseeing office operations and partner and employee relations, fostering client services, and growing new business opportunities, the firm
CTM: Not your father’s machine shop
FRANKFORT — Back in the days when an auto called Oldsmobile still roamed the earth, the above catch phrase was invented to rescue the brand. Despite featuring William Shatner as Captain Kirk, the advertising effort failed to save Oldsmobile. Nevertheless, the tag line became part of our pop culture. Fast forward to Frankfort, N.Y. and
Wells Fargo survey: small-business owners divided on increasing the minimum wage
Small-business owners are divided on whether the national minimum wage should be increased. That’s according to the most-recent Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index. In the survey, conducted Oct. 23-29, small-business owners were split between those who approve (47 percent) and those who disapprove (50 percent) of a law raising the national minimum wage to $9.50
Gaetano Construction: Poised to grow with “Nano Utica”
UTICA — “Nano Utica is a game-changer,” says Brian A. Gaetano, president of Charles A. Gaetano Construction Corporation, LLC. “This is like winning the Super Bowl,” he exclaims. Nano Utica, a moniker applied to the nanotechnology development under way in the Mohawk Valley, got a huge boost on Oct. 10 when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced
Buffalo–area fuel distributor eyes Syracuse region for growth
SYRACUSE — Tonawanda–based NOCO Inc., a lubricant and wholesale fuel distributor that has served the Syracuse market since the 1980s, is working to expand its presence and reach in the region. The firm hopes to launch residential electricity and natural-gas service and possibly even convenience stores. The 80-year-old company got its start delivering coal
Willow Run Foods uses natural-gas trucks to save money, reduce emissions
KIRKWOOD — Willow Run Foods, Inc., a Kirkwood–based food-distribution company, has added a group of compressed natural-gas (CNG) trucks to its fleet that seek to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and save the business money on diesel-fuel consumption. The firm announced, what it called, an “alternative-transportation project” in early September. The New York State Energy
Cornell study: hotels’ green efforts don’t help or hurt revenue
ITHACA — As hotels around the world work to improve their sustainability and reduce their carbon footprint, those efforts don’t appear to have an effect, either way, on their sales and bookings. That’s according to a new study from two professors at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration (SHA). Howard Chong, assistant professor of economics
Photovoltaic testing facility opens in Cortland
CORTLAND — A new solar-panel testing laboratory in Cortland, the only such facility in the Northeast, should help promote the growth of the solar-power industry as well as solar research and development, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) contends. NYERDA partnered with Intertek Group plc — a London–based, global testing company
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