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Profit rises at KeyCorp in Q1

Net income from continuing operations attributable to common shareholders at KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) totaled $199 million, or 21 cents per share, in the first quarter. That’s up from $184 million, or 21 cents per share, in the first quarter of 2011. Key, based in Cleveland, has more than 1,000 branches in 14 states and assets […]

Businesses Should Use Credit Strategically as Recovery Gains Strength

The significant tightening of business credit brought by the recession has begun to lift, with a recent analysis of FDIC data by the Investigative Reporting Workshop finding five straight quarters of increasing overall commercial and industrial lending by banks.   As the credit squeeze eases with improving economic conditions, lenders remain cautious in their underwriting,

The case for performing bariatric surgery on government

According to my American Heritage dictionary, bariatrics is “… [t]he branch of medicine that deals with the causes, prevention, and treatment of obesity.” A recent study from Cornell University found that obesity among both children and adults is a national crisis, accounting for more than 20 percent of all U.S. health-care spending, twice the amount previously

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AIDS Community Resources offers new programs

SYRACUSE — AIDS Community Resources (ACR) added several new programs last year to its established set of services. And this year, the organization is traveling down a greener path. Although ACR already catered to the youth community through programs like the Teens AIDS Task Force and Q Center, in 2011 it established a Youth Services

This 2012 Presidential Campaign Is All About Women

Suppose you run for the White House. And, suppose one evening during the campaign you address 10,000 voters. Your advisers tell you that maybe 60 percent of them are women. What types of issues do you suppose you will choose to talk about with this group? And, do you suppose you might make sure a

Dangerous Labor Ambush Set for Struggling Small Employers

“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark,” baseball’s Yogi Berra once misquipped, “nobody’s going to stop them.”  Labor bosses must feel the same way about wage and salary workers who are avoiding union halls these days. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ latest union membership report, only 6.9 percent of

New program to provide training to domestic-violence survivors

SYRACUSE — Starting a business is an amazing opportunity for any woman, but it rises to another level for domestic-violence victims, says Joanne Lenweaver, director of the WISE Women’s Business Center. “Having this phenomenal opportunity offered to you and having the resources to actually see that this is a possibility,” Lenweaver says. “That you have

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