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Business

Expedia CEO Talks Demand, Pricing

Online travel agency Expedia Group is benefitting as Americans continue to make up for trips they skipped during the worst of the pandemic, and Wall Street expects it to post a solidly profitable 2023 after a money-losing first quarter. The Seattle-based company has been restructuring ...

Packing Power

Students from the G.A. Accountability and Responsibility Program recently toured the Jamestown Container Company in Falconer. Daniel Becker, Jamestown Container plant superintendent, Dave Spitz, design manager, and Mike Blakey, design assistant, took time out of their schedules to explain ...

U.S. Consumer Price Growth Slows Slightly; Inflation Shows Signs Of Decline

WASHINGTON — Consumer prices in the United States cooled last month, rising just 0.1% from April to May and extending the past year’s steady easing of inflation. At the same time, some measures of underlying price pressures remained high. Measured year over year, inflation slowed to just ...

Brown To Lead Job Corps Academy Transition

On April 1, Cassadaga Job Corps Academy officially became part of Dynamic Educational Systems, Inc. after being operated by Career Systems Development Inc. for over 20 years. The man at the helm of the transition is Willie Brown, whose Job Corps career began back in 1988 as a residential ...

Besse Named JRC Director

The Jamestown Renaissance Corporation has named Frank Besse its new executive director. Before being appointed executive director, Besse served as the organization’s urban core director, where he focused on supporting downtown businesses and buildings. “Frank Besse’s promotion to the ...

Optimism Builds For Home Builders

LOS ANGELES — By almost any measure, the U.S. housing market has yet to emerge from a more than year-long slump. Through the first three months of 2023, sales of previously occupied U.S. homes are running 28% below the pace in the same quarter last year, while sales of new homes are down ...