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InFocus Advisors begins operating Patricia D Spencer Agency

CLAY  —  InFocus Advisors, Inc. brought the operations of Patricia D Spencer Agency under its roof at the beginning of November. “To the best of my knowledge this is pretty unique,” says Dave Lavelle, president of InFocus Advisors and one of the insurance, investment, and group-benefit firm’s five partners. “You used to have a small, […]

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Upstate health-benefit costs rose 3.5 percent in 2012

Health-benefit costs increased less in upstate New York than they did nationally in 2012, according to recently released results of a survey from the human-resources consulting firm Mercer. Costs rose 3.5 percent in upstate New York to an average of $9,364 per employee, Mercer found in its National Survey of Employer-Sponsored Health Plans 2012, which

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Motherhood, apple pie, and school staffing

Growing up, I was taught that two things were sacrosanct — motherhood and apple pie. Education has added a third item: ever expanding, K-12 public-school staffing. In 1950, I was in the seventh grade when the clamor began to increase the number of teachers and reduce the ratio of pupils to teachers. The teaching “professionals”

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