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Ostroff Associates Welcomes Transportation and Infrastructure Policy Leader Ron Epstein as a Senior Advisor
Ostroff Associates, New York State’s leading government relations firm, welcomes Ron Epstein as a Senior Advisor for Transportation and Infrastructure.
Cuomo Says Special Session Might be Necessary to Allocate Public Hospital Funding
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset uncompensated care until it can determine an equitable way to distribute the money. Those funds include money that was expected to be distributed last year and those allocated for the current fiscal year. The governor said that if Congress doesn’t the restore the funding by the end of the year, a special session of the state Legislature ...
Cuomo Says Special Session Might be Necessary to Allocate Public Hospital Funding
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday the state would be holding onto federal funding that helps offset uncompensated care until it can determine an equitable way to distribute the money. Those funds include money that was expected to be distributed last year and those allocated for the current fiscal year. The governor said that if Congress doesn’t the restore the funding by the end of the year, a special session of the state Legislature ...
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New York Wheel and Empire Outlets to Transform the St. George Waterfront
The New York Wheel, which was announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2012 and approved by the New York City Council in 2013, was supposed to be the largest Ferris wheel in the world at 630 feet. It has since been exceeded by the Ain Dubai Ferris wheel, which will reach 689 feet – and that’s assuming the New York City project comes to fruition. The Ferris wheel, which will be located in the St. George neighborhood ...
New York Wheel and Empire Outlets to Transform the St. George Waterfront
The New York Wheel, which was announced by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in 2012 and approved by the New York City Council in 2013, was supposed to be the largest Ferris wheel in the world at 630 feet. It has since been exceeded by the Ain Dubai Ferris wheel, which will reach 689 feet – and that’s assuming the New York City project comes to fruition. The Ferris wheel, which will be located in the St. George neighborhood ...
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Monolith Solar Names Seasoned Executive as New CEO
Mike Hickey, who has led some of the fastest-growing technology companies in the Albany, New York, area, has been named CEO of Monolith Solar, the solar panel installation company. The company has more than doubled its employee count this year to almost 150 people and has seen 300 percent revenue growth since 2014. Monolith Solar was founded by Steve Erby and Mark Fobare in 2009. Erby and Fobare ...
Monolith Solar Names Seasoned Executive as New CEO
Mike Hickey, who has led some of the fastest-growing technology companies in the Albany, New York, area, has been named CEO of Monolith Solar, the solar panel installation company. The company has more than doubled its employee count this year to almost 150 people and has seen 300 percent revenue growth since 2014. Monolith Solar was founded by Steve Erby and Mark Fobare in 2009. Erby and Fobare ...
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Don’t Just Build Transportation Infrastructure. Build it to Last.
A 100-year lifespan—it’s praise we associate with lucky senior citizens, but rarely with transportation assets such as bridges and highways. That’s partly because such projects have traditionally been built to last just 50 years owing to the limitations of materials and engineering techniques at the time of construction. For example, the Tappan Zee Bridge, which opened in 1955, was designed for a 50-year lifespan ...
Don’t Just Build Transportation Infrastructure. Build it to Last.
A 100-year lifespan—it’s praise we associate with lucky senior citizens, but rarely with transportation assets such as bridges and highways. That’s partly because such projects have traditionally been built to last just 50 years owing to the limitations of materials and engineering techniques at the time of construction. For example, the Tappan Zee Bridge, which opened in 1955, was designed for a 50-year lifespan ...
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Binghamton U. Tentacles Spread Wide Throughout the Community
Traffic on Vestal Parkway becomes a little more congested. Store checkout lines get longer. And the general population of Binghamton turns decidedly younger. Welcome to Binghamton University’s fall semester start. Classes begin Wednesday. New students moved into the dorms on Sunday; returning students on Monday after their three month break. Off-campus residents — an estimated 10,000 living in ...
Binghamton U. Tentacles Spread Wide Throughout the Community
Traffic on Vestal Parkway becomes a little more congested. Store checkout lines get longer. And the general population of Binghamton turns decidedly younger. Welcome to Binghamton University’s fall semester start. Classes begin Wednesday. New students moved into the dorms on Sunday; returning students on Monday after their three month break. Off-campus residents — an estimated 10,000 living in ...
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Walmart Foundation Grant for United Way’s Childhood Home Visitation Programs
The United Way of Greater Rochester will use a $150,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to enhance its early childhood home visitation program with the goal of helping 800 low income parents in the Rochester area this year. The United Way’s home visitation trilogy of programs — Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents as Teaches, and Building Healthy Children — helps new parents during the early stages of pregnancy through ...
Walmart Foundation Grant for United Way’s Childhood Home Visitation Programs
The United Way of Greater Rochester will use a $150,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation to enhance its early childhood home visitation program with the goal of helping 800 low income parents in the Rochester area this year. The United Way’s home visitation trilogy of programs — Nurse-Family Partnership, Parents as Teaches, and Building Healthy Children — helps new parents during the early stages of pregnancy through ...
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Exclusive: Empire Outlets to Hire More than 1,200 Through Workforce Program
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The city and owners of Empire Outlets have committed to hire more than 1,200 people to work at New York City’s first outlet center through a new workforce training program starting in September, the Advance has learned. Empire Outlets, which is owned by BFC Partners and Goldman Sachs, is expected to create more than 1,200 permanent jobs when it opens next spring. Following a ...
Exclusive: Empire Outlets to Hire More than 1,200 Through Workforce Program
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The city and owners of Empire Outlets have committed to hire more than 1,200 people to work at New York City’s first outlet center through a new workforce training program starting in September, the Advance has learned. Empire Outlets, which is owned by BFC Partners and Goldman Sachs, is expected to create more than 1,200 permanent jobs when it opens next spring. Following a ...
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The New York State Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development Reaches Milestone with 1 Million Hires Supported by the New York State Film Tax Credit Program
The Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development (MPTV) today announced a milestone with more than one million hires supported by the New York State Film Tax Credit Program since 2011. That number represents almost 80 percent of all jobs in the program since its inception in 2004. The more than one million hires were created by 1,156 productions that have participated in the Program and have ...
The New York State Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development Reaches Milestone with 1 Million Hires Supported by the New York State Film Tax Credit Program
The Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development (MPTV) today announced a milestone with more than one million hires supported by the New York State Film Tax Credit Program since 2011. That number represents almost 80 percent of all jobs in the program since its inception in 2004. The more than one million hires were created by 1,156 productions that have participated in the Program and have ...
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Wegmans to Start Delivery Service with Instacart in Syracuse and Upstate NY Cities
Wegmans announced today it will begin same-day delivery service in stores in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo starting in August. Wegmans has partnered with Instacart, a grocery delivery service based in San Francisco. The service allows some Wegmans customers- if they live in the store’s delivery area -to complete their grocery shopping online, and have their orders delivered to their doors in as little as an hour ...
Wegmans to Start Delivery Service with Instacart in Syracuse and Upstate NY Cities
Wegmans announced today it will begin same-day delivery service in stores in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo starting in August. Wegmans has partnered with Instacart, a grocery delivery service based in San Francisco. The service allows some Wegmans customers- if they live in the store’s delivery area -to complete their grocery shopping online, and have their orders delivered to their doors in as little as an hour ...
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