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	IDA bashes NYSEG parent for ceasing electrical upgrades
	New York State Electric & Gas Corp. (NYSEG) is cutting plans for electrical upgrades to the former Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, according to a statement today from the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency (IDA).

	NYSERDA awards grants for local energy projects
	St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, Onondaga County, and the State University of New York Cortland (SUNY Cortland) are among several organizations awarded state funding for energy conservation projects. The cities of Binghamton and Elmira and Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira also received funding.

	Maffei, Arcuri push for new investments in high-speed rail
	U.S. Reps. Daniel Maffei (D-DeWitt) and Michael Arcuri (D-Utica) last week sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood calling for additional federal support for high-speed rail projects in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley. LaHood offered to meet with the two representatives in the coming weeks to discuss the matter, according to a statement from Maffei's office.

	Teen unemployment rises
	New employment data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows that New York's teens are having an increasingly hard time finding work. Though the state added an additional 15,000 teens to its population in the last five years, the percentage of those teens that have a job or are looking for work fell by 15 percent. The teen unemployment rate increased 92 percent over the past five years.

	Unshackle Upstate plans scorecards for lawmakers
	The business group Unshackle Upstate will take aim this year at lawmakers it believes aren't representing the interests of businesses and taxpayers. The organization plans to track the actions of every state legislator during the current session and issue scorecards based on their performance. The group also formed a political action committee (PAC) this year that is currently raising money with an eye toward actively participating in races this fall, said Brian Sampson, Unshackle Upstate executive director.

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Business Of The Week

	Staff education key to CPS success
	LIVERPOOL — Usually, sister companies Contemporary Personnel Staffing, Inc. and Professionals, Inc. see their slowest revenue growth during the first quarter of the year. That’s not the case this year.

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Viewpoints

	Small Business Development Centers Provide Solutions in Tough Times
	Those operating small businesses today have seen some exciting and challenging changes in the marketplace that influence the way people live and do business. From the Internet to e-mail to blackberries and globalization, the business landscape is eve

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	Health Care Rome Memorial Hospital awarded grant to upgrade wireless network
	The Rome Community Foundation has awarded Rome Memorial Hospital a grant of $40,000 for improvements to its wireless network for Internet access. The first phase of the wireless-infrastructure upgrade is underway, Bruce Peterson, chief information officer at Rome Memorial, said in a news release.

OPINIONS

From The Publisher

	Understanding health-care cost-drivers is the key to reform
	Everyone assumes that health-care costs in America are rising too rapidly. “On a per-capita basis, health-care spending increased by a factor of six between 1965 and 2005, after adjusting for inflation,” say Jason D. Fodeman and Robert A. Book, co-authors of a Heritage Foundation study entitled “Bending the Curve: What Really Drives Health Care Spending” (February 17, 2010).

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	Is the Jobs Picture Getting Any Clearer or Brighter?
	To say the job market has been slow to recover is a vast understatement. Even though the economy grew for the entire second half of last year — 2.2 percent in the third quarter and 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter — employers have continued to cut jobs and have been reluctant to hire.

VIEWPOINTS/OP-EDS

	How to Fly Safely With An Angel Investor
	The landscape for financing early-stage companies continues to evolve, as does the rest of our economic system. As venture-capital (VC) funds have grown in size over the past decade from the significant influx of money from institutional investors, so has their appetite and need to deploy greater amounts of capital. This sounds like a good thing at first for those of us wanting to raise money for startups.

On The Move

	PEOPLE ON THE MOVE - MV - 3/8/2010
	ACCOUNTING Dee Moerman has joined Daniel T. Dreimiller, CPA, P.C., as senior accountant. Moerman will be responsible for various accounting and income-tax services in all industries served by the firm. She is a certified QuickBooks adviser and has extensive experience with sales and payroll taxes. Prior to joining the firm, Moerman was a senior accountant in the small-business services department with ParenteBeard, LLC. She has 13 years public accounting experience.

Market Research

Top Ranks Lists
The 2010 Book of Lists electronic edition may be downloaded in Excel format. These 62 lists include key business information (when available) such as number of employees, revenue, products/services offered, and top executives for each company.

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