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New Hampshire Maker Gingerbread Amy Is Moving To Jamestown

New Hampshire artisan, Gingerbread Amy, is moving to Jamestown. Gingerbread Amy, also known as Amy Knapp, has run the Gingerbread Amy business in New Hampshire for more than 20 years teaching people how to make gingerbread houses. Knapp is also available for events and parties, and has ...

Retailers Scale Back Hiring As Worry About Slowdown Grows

NEW YORK — After going on a frenzied hiring spree for a year and a half to meet surging shopper demand, America’s retailers are starting to temper their recruiting. The changing mindset comes as companies confront a pullback in consumer spending, the prospect of an economic downturn and ...

Szwejbka Earns Marketing Credential

Matthew Szwejbka, AAE marketing and communications specialist at the Syracuse Regional Airport Authority, recently received the Accredited Airport Executive Designation. The final panel interview to receive this distinction was held June 5 at the 94th National Annual AAAE Conference and Expo ...

Why U.S. Inflation Is So High, When It May Ease

WASHINGTON — Inflation’s relentless surge didn’t merely persist in June. It accelerated. For the 12 months ending in June, the government’s consumer price index rocketed 9.1%, the fastest year-over-year jump since 1981. And that was nothing next to what energy prices did: Fueled by ...

Netflix Co-Founder Helps Startups

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Longtime Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is renowned for building a video streaming service that has transformed entertainment, but it probably wouldn’t have happened if not for his friendship with serial entrepreneur Marc Randolph. While brainstorming with Hastings in 1997, ...

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 ...