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Jim Gordon

Kingston names Main Street manager

Jun-26-09, 02:08 PM

Business owner and activist is named to take-charge slot in state’s first capital.

Mass-transit operators see increase in ridership

Jun-01-08, 07:00 PM

Transportation experts have long pondered what it would take to get Americans to abandon their cars in favor of mass transit.

Credit unions merge

Oct-05-08, 07:00 PM

Valley Central Federal Credit Union announced it will merge with Hudson Heritage Federal Credit Union.

Dada economics

The art of capitalism

Apr-13-08, 07:00 PM

Joseph Catania

Sustaining Italian cuisine

Nov-02-08, 07:00 PM

Often, work and play compete for attention, but for some lucky business folk, passion and profit complement each other almost like the facts of an airtight court case, or the ingredients in a delicious Italian meal.



New machine promises jobs in Kingston

May-22-09, 03:32 PM

Armor Dynamics is installing a California-made, armor panel machine and expanding.

IBM weighs $36M investment in plant

May-11-08, 07:00 PM

IBM Corp. is considering investing $36 million in its Poughkeepsie facility.

The out-of-towners

New York City conventions head north

Oct-26-08, 07:00 PM

The idea of a drive through bucolic scenery is a nice carrot for conventioneers to leave Manhattan, but the real payoff comes at the end of the road when the bill comes to about half the lettuce of the Big Apple.

The no-sale specter

Retailers brace for ‘unique challenges ahead’

Nov-09-08, 07:00 PM

Forget Halloween.



Mac, the medics and me

Jul-10-09, 03:11 PM

If today is Tuesday, this must be the cardiologist’s office.

Tackling the Einstein conundrum

Inventors can be second-rate at business

Feb-01-09, 07:00 PM

While it might be too sweeping to say that ingenuity without entrepreneurial savvy equals bankruptcy, certainly lots of good ideas fail on the market because their inventors are not as good at business as they are at science.

Tasty Rhinebeck

May-11-08, 07:00 PM

A day of food and drink benefits hospital.

Ulster preens for business

‘We must think outside the box’

Jan-25-09, 07:00 PM

Ulster County government can help stoke its economy in very concrete ways.

Location key to region’s residential real estate market resilience

Apr-06-08, 07:00 PM

Even as hope emerges, so too do concerns subprime mortgage problems may yet deepen and further dampen the market.

New plan for Tech City

Massive Ulster site is given direction

Apr-12-09, 07:00 PM

A new master plan has been unveiled for the 260-acre Tech City complex in Ulster County.

About that storage tank …

Highland company battles stealth contamination

Aug-17-08, 07:00 PM

C2G Environmental Consultants LLC has the capacity to lift out and replace 20,000 gallon fuel tanks.

Frosty the businessman

Staycations keep snowy resorts busy

Jan-11-09, 07:00 PM

A wintry economy is not translating to bleak times for winter tourist destinations, according to a trio of attractions in the Hudson Valley, all of whom say so far they are holding up well, but all of whom are also taking proactive approaches to attract patrons.  

IBM and state in $90M talks

Jul-07-08, 07:00 PM

State officials and IBM Corp. are working on a deal to invest $90 million in state aid to spur more than $2 billion in private-sector investment over five years at IBM facilities in East Fishkill and Albany, seeking to retain and possibly expand the number of high-tech jobs at the IBM semiconductor facility in East Fishkill, and perhaps to boost IBM’s presence at the College of Nanoscale Engineering in Albany.

All aboard

Apr-06-08, 07:00 PM

Rails grow in popularity.

Seamus O’Shea

A world of music and green energy

Mar-08-09, 07:00 PM

Seamus O’Shea has a passion for making good energy, whether from renewable and non-polluting sources or from playing the bass guitar.