OPINION: Restoring American Leadership
Without doubt, America’s global image has diminished in recent years. We once were preeminent as an international leader, but those days are no more. While the presidency of Donald Trump brought U.S. Read More
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OPINION: Cuomo Administration’s Interference With Nursing-Home Data Shows Proactive Malfeasance
The more information that comes out regarding the true nature of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic response, the more obvious it is that he has always valued his reputation over providing New Yorkers with the truth. Read More
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OPINION: Health-Budget Hearing Offers No Closure in Nursing-Home Cover-Up
[On Feb. 25], New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker was questioned regarding the Department of Health’s (DOH) budget and response to the COVID-19 outbreak. The budget hearing was design Read More
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OPINION: Our Country Rests on People Doing the Right Thing
As the events of the past few months have unfolded, I have often found myself wondering what our Founders would have made of it all. Impossible to know, of course, but they had plenty of insight to of Read More
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OPINION: Cuomo’s Call to Focus on Facts & Data are Hypocritical
He disregards both For months, we listened to Gov. Andrew Cuomo laud the importance of fact-based decision making and proclaim the values of objectivity and science. But “do as I say, not as I do” ha Read More
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CEO FOCUS: A New Future for I-81 and Central New York
Large-scale infrastructure projects are gaining national attention for their opportunity to spark growth and create jobs as the country seeks to recover from the economic crisis caused by COVID-19. Th Read More
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OPINION: Cuomo’s nursing-home coverup needs to be fully investigated
It has never been clearer that there must be a full and immediate investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing-home coverup and the circumstances surrounding the loss of 15,000 senior citizens to COVI Read More
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OPINION: Good Foreign Policy is Good Domestic Policy, and Vice-Versa
There was an interesting moment in Washington, D.C. at the end of January, on Antony Blinken’s first full day as secretary of state. Meeting with the press corps that covers the State Department, he c Read More
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OPINION: New York Legislature Should Keep the Middle-Class Tax Cut
I'm urging my colleagues in the New York Legislature to reject the proposal in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget that would delay middle-class tax cuts set to take effect this year. These tax cuts were enact Read More
Opinion
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OPINION: As New York Slips Further into Unrest, Democrats do Nothing to Make Streets Safer New York State’s criminal-justice system has deteriorated to dangerous levels. At the direction of Democrats in the state legislature and New York City, we have seen drastic changes to parole and bail Read More
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OPINION: U.S.-China Relationship is Essential, Challenging The relationship between the United States and China is the most important bilateral relationship in the world. When it goes smoothly, global tensions are low. When the relationship hits the rocks, te Read More
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OPINION: Budget Priorities that Will Break the Bank The process of developing the annual New York State Budget officially begins when the governor presents his spending proposal in late January. But the terms of negotiations become clearer once legisla Read More
Business Mentors
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VIEWPOINT: COVID Puts More Pressure on Already Stressed Nonprofits “In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path – the path of compassion, courage, understanding, and love.” — Amit Ray The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world in many ways. The frustr Read More
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Seven Great Ways to Create a Really Inclusive Workplace In a recent article in Harvard Business Review, Elisabeth Kelan writes about “gender fatigue,” which she describes as the phenomenon of people acknowledging that gender inequality exists in general, b Read More -
VIEWPOINT: The Work-From-Home Vs. Return-To-Office Debate What employees, bosses should consider Many Americans have been working from home full time for a year now since COVID-19 hit the U.S. And many prefer that arrangement to a traditional office. In a s Read More
People on the Move
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LESTER BURT LESTER BURT recently joined Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC as a senior manager in the firm’s audit and accounting department. He has more than 11 years of experience in public accounting. Burt’ Read More -
JENNIFER BRILLANTE JENNIFER BRILLANTE has been named partner at C & D Advertising. She has been with the firm for 10 years as VP of business development. Brillante has been instrumental in generating significant gro Read More -
BLAKE PENN BLAKE PENN recently joined Colgate University as its first chief information security officer (CISO) and director of information security. He previously served as information security policy and compl Read More