People news: Dermody, Burke & Brown hires Nguyen
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC announced it has recently hired Uyen Nguyen, CPA as a manager in the auditing & accounting department in its Syracuse office. Read More
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Two health-care focused Syracuse law firms to merge
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Syracuse–based law firms Cohen Compagni Beckman Appler & Knoll, PLLC and Wood & Smith P.C., which both focus on health-care law, plan to merge, effective Jan. 1. Read More
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Four things we’ve learned about the 5-0 Syracuse Orange basketball team
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse Orange men’s basketball team has begun its 2017-2018 season with a perfect 5-0 record, winning each contest by an average of more than 17 points. Here are four things I think we have learned about the Orange. Read More
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KeyCorp boosts quarterly dividend by 11 percent
KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) — parent of KeyBank, the No. 2 bank ranked by deposit market share in the 16-county Central New York area — recently boosted its quarterly cash dividend by 11 percent to 10.5 cents per share of its common stock. Read More
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Crouse Health to start new program to help “at-risk” young men
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Crouse Health plans to start a new program that seeks to help young men with substance-abuse disorders who have been arrested for non-violent offenses. Read More
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State report shows mixed picture for CNY region unemployment rates in October
The unemployment rate in the Syracuse metro area remained unchanged at 4.6 percent in October, compared to a year ago. Read More
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Here are some recent tweets that came across the @cnybj Twitter feed, offering various business, career, personal, and digital/social-media tips. SBA @SBAgov 96% of the world’s population lives out Read More
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New York cheese production rises 10 percent in September from a year ago
New York dairy farms produced 77.4 million pounds of cheese (excluding cottage cheese) in September, up 10.1 percent from the year-ago period, but 0.5 percent below August’s production level, the USDA Read More
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Chemung Financial to pay fourth-quarter dividend of 26 cents a share
ELMIRA — Chemung Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: CHMG) announced that its board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of 26 cents per share. The banking company will pay the dividend on Jan. 2 Read More
Opinion
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OPINION: New York’s Changing Gun Laws: Here’s What You Need to Know Gun owners, outdoor sportsmen and women, and stores selling firearms and ammunition are now subjected to some troublesome procedures and protocols after new regulations went into effect on Sept. 13. Read More
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OPINION: Climate Change is an urgent, difficult challenge We can no longer pretend that climate change is just a theory or that it’s a problem for the future. From deadly fires in Hawaii to devastating floods in the Northeast to record heat waves across much of the country, we see constant reminders of what a warming climate can do. Read More
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OPINION: Recession soon? Unemployment jumps in the latest month The national unemployment rate reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) rose from 3.5 percent to 3.8 percent in August as an additional 514,000 Americans said they could not find work in the BLS’s household survey. Read More
Business Mentors
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VIEWPOINT: Study shows the VA is understating vet suicides A recent study by America’s Warrior Partnership found that veterans were committing suicide at an alarming rate of 44 per day, more than twice the Veterans Administration’s (VA) estimate of 17 suicides a day. Read More -
VIEWPOINT: A time of transformation for downtown Syracuse Downtown Syracuse is in a transformational moment. Reflecting on the last few years, I have watched our city reimagine its landscape into a thriving community with amazing places for people to explore and beautiful real estate for people to call home. Read More -
VIEWPOINT: Demystifying Market Research: Data-Driven Insights for Mid-Market Firms Leading a mid-market company has never been more challenging than it is today. Read More
People on the Move
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Schuyler Hospital Specialty Clinic adds new oncology, hematology providers MONTOUR FALLS, N.Y. — Schuyler Hospital, a unit of Cayuga Health, has added new providers to its Specialty Clinic from Cayuga Hematology and Oncology Associates, part of the Cayuga Cancer Center. Read More -
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City of Syracuse TONY WILLIAMS was recently appointed the new commissioner of Parks Recreation and Youth Programs for the City of Syracuse. Read More