Rules vary for kids flying solo
By Tom ParsonsDallas Morning NewsThe holidays are a popular time for kids to fly solo.Each airline has its own rules and fees for unaccompanied minors, so it’s a good idea to check the policies before...
View ArticleHow to blow whistle without blowing your career
Someone you work with is doing something unethical. What do you do about it?If you’re like most workers, you’ll ignore it about half the time. That’s what Joseph Grenny, co-author of “Crucial...
View ArticleCatch more followers on social media with honey
MINNEAPOLIS – On the Internet, snark reigns supreme – or so it seems.On social media, everyone wants to be the most clever. Twitter, in particular, with its 140-character limit, is tailor-made for the...
View ArticleSafety and savings for Cyber Monday
In today’s retail world, every day is Cyber Monday.Just ask any bricks-and-mortar retailer who laments their loss of market share to a website like Amazon.com, or takes steps to fight showrooming –...
View ArticleKey IDA panel OKs $8.4 million in tax breaks for Uniland project
A key panel of the Erie County Industrial Development Agency approved a set of tax breaks totaling $8.42 million for Uniland Development Co.’s proposed 12-story office and hotel tower in downtown...
View ArticleRefugees turn hard work into better future
Refugees from Burma and Nepal sort products for shipment at American Sales Co. in Lancaster.Over at Greatbatch Medical in Lancaster, an Eritrean forced to flee his country works as a welder.At...
View ArticleEx-Madoff finance chief testifies that fake trades were obvious in 1975
Bernard Madoff’s finance chief, who pleaded guilty to aiding his $17 billion fraud, said he could tell right away that fake trades were being used in customer accounts in 1975, when he joined the firm...
View ArticleFederal agency gives good marks to local Medicare Advantage plans
The Medicare Advantage plans offered by the region’s health insurance companies scored well in the latest ratings from the federal agency that oversees the Medicare program.Independent Health and...
View ArticleDrop in Black Friday spending worries retailers
The first spending decline on a Black Friday weekend since 2009 reinforced projections for a lackluster holiday, increasing chances retailers will extend the deep discounts already hurting their...
View Article‘Cross Border Huddle’ is binational effort to improve bridge...
Even as Sen. Charles E. Schumer pointed over his shoulder Monday to a long line of trucks crawling across the Peace Bridge, more than 100 business, government and economic development officials were...
View ArticleAmazon’s ‘delivery by drone’ plan outside the box
WASHINGTON – Amazon’s splashy announcement of its plan to revolutionize package delivery – via drone, naturally – has already started running into skepticism.The project was first reported by CBS’ “60...
View ArticleGlobal Tourism Institute proposed for Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A tourism mecca at the edge of one of the world’s most famous natural attractions.That’s the idea behind Niagara University’s plans to establish a center for high-tech innovation in...
View ArticleTwo entrepreneurs don’t nitpick over ‘ick’ issue when...
ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maybe it’s not the very worst call that you can get from your kid’s school, but it is a plenty bad one.Flunked out? No.Punched a student? Not that, either.Brought a pocket knife to...
View ArticleNew security guard – ‘evil twin’ of R2-D2 –...
NEW YORK – The night watchman of the future is 5 feet tall, weighs 300 pounds, looks a lot like R2-D2 – without the whimsy – and will cost just $6.25 an hour.Knightscope, a company in California, has...
View ArticleTops Markets returns to local ownership
For the first time in 22 years, Tops Markets is back in the hands of local owners.Six years to the day after Frank Curci returned to Buffalo to run the Tops supermarket chain for its new Wall Street...
View ArticleECIDA looks to San Diego for its next top executive, as board OKs Weathers
The former head of a world trade center in San Diego is in line to become the top executive at the Erie County Industrial Development Agency.Steven W. Weathers, who resigned Nov. 20 as president and...
View ArticleManufacturing index rises as plant orders grow
Manufacturing unexpectedly accelerated in November at the fastest pace in more than two years, pointing to a pickup in business spending that will help propel the U.S. economy in early 2014.The...
View ArticleTops Markets returns to local ownership
For the first time in 22 years, Tops Markets is back in the hands of local owners.Six years to the day after Frank Curci returned to Buffalo to run the Tops supermarket chain for its new Wall Street...
View ArticleOn the Record: Dec. 3, 2013
Hires/Promotions/Honors Roswell Park Cancer Institute promoted Kara Eaton-Weaver to executive director of its Patient/Family Experience Department and named Harl Tolbert director of technology...
View ArticleDeadline extended for submissions for best places to work in Western New York
The deadline to nominate your employer as one of the region’s top workplaces has been extended until Jan. 24.If you like your job, your colleagues, your bosses, we invite you to share that with the...
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