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Heritage Names New CFO

Lisa Haglund, president and CEO of Heritage Ministries, announced that Paul DeSantis has been named chief financial officer of the organization. DeSantis comes to Heritage with a qualified background including nearly two decades in health care and financial management, most recently serving as ...

Add Rent To Rising Costs Hitting Small Businesses

NEW YORK — The rent has come due for America’s small businesses and at a very inopportune time. Landlords were lenient about rent payments during the first two years of the pandemic. Now, many are asking for back rent, and some are raising the current rent as well. Meanwhile, most of the ...

Detroit Targets Old Industry Sites To Improve Neighborhoods

DETROIT — One of the first things 84-year-old Mahalie Wilson sees when she steps out of her home on Detroit’s east side is the brick, steel and concrete skeleton of the long-vacant Packard plant that looms over the neighborhood. Built in the early 1900s and still churning out high-end ...

State Job Recovery Still Lagging Behind Rest Of Country

A recent study by The Empire Center shows that New York still lags behind most of the nation in terms of recovering jobs lost at the start of the pandemic. Last week, the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank reviewed the most recent state and federal seasonally adjusted employment data. It ...

Are 4-Day Work Weeks Future Of Full-Time?

A four-day workweek sounds appealing to workers. Possibly alarming to employers. A bill introduced in the California legislature earlier this year proposed a regular pay rate for 32 hours of work per week, with overtime kicking in after that. The measure stalled in committee for a lack of ...

Kathryn Colvin Receives Spirit Of Caring Award

Kathryn Colvin, an Edward Jones financial advisor in Lakewood, recently received the firm’s Spirit of Caring Award designed to recognize those financial advisors who exemplify the values, culture and spirit of giving back. The award is given to one financial advisor in each of the firm’s ...