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	Alliance announces semifinalists in business contest by Kevin Tampone
	The Central Upstate Regional Alliance today announced the 10 semifinalists in the annual New York's Creative Core Emerging Business Competition. The contest seeks to honor the region's most innovative and growth-oriented companies. The top prize is $200,000.

	USDA program will guarantee loans for rural businesses by Eric Reinhardt
	The Rural Development Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has more than $50 million in economic-stimulus funding available to help small businesses. The funding is part of the agency's Business and Industry Loan Guarantee Program. The program is meant to create jobs and promote private investment in rural areas, according to the USDA.

	IDA bashes NYSEG parent for ceasing electrical upgrades by Eric Reinhardt
	New York State Electric & Gas Corp. (NYSEG) is cutting plans for electrical upgrades to the former Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, according to a statement today from the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency (IDA).

	NYSERDA awards grants for local energy projects by Eric Reinhardt
	St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center, Onondaga County, and the State University of New York Cortland (SUNY Cortland) are among several organizations awarded state funding for energy conservation projects. The cities of Binghamton and Elmira and Arnot Ogden Medical Center in Elmira also received funding.

	Maffei, Arcuri push for new investments in high-speed rail by Eric Reinhardt
	U.S. Reps. Daniel Maffei (D-DeWitt) and Michael Arcuri (D-Utica) last week sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood calling for additional federal support for high-speed rail projects in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley. LaHood offered to meet with the two representatives in the coming weeks to discuss the matter, according to a statement from Maffei's office.

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	Staff education key to CPS success
	LIVERPOOL — Usually, sister companies Contemporary Personnel Staffing, Inc. and Professionals, Inc. see their slowest revenue growth during the first quarter of the year. That’s not the case this year.

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Viewpoints

	Small Business Development Centers Provide Solutions in Tough Times
	Those operating small businesses today have seen some exciting and challenging changes in the marketplace that influence the way people live and do business. From the Internet to e-mail to blackberries and globalization, the business landscape is eve

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	Energy/Environment Alliance announces semifinalists in business contest
	The Central Upstate Regional Alliance today announced the 10 semifinalists in the annual New York's Creative Core Emerging Business Competition. The contest seeks to honor the region's most innovative and growth-oriented companies. The top prize is $200,000.

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From The Publisher

	Explaining “risk” to the White House
	Risk: “The possibility of suffering harm or loss.” (American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd edition) In his opinion piece in the March 5 issue, The Central New York Business Journal’s editor-in-chief, Adam Rombel, wrote about uncertainty in the business community. The result of this uncertainty is employers’ continuing reluctance to take risks.

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ROMBEL ON BUSINESS BLOG

	Shufflin' Off To Buffalo
	Tomorrow morning and afternoon, Syracuse University basketball fans will descend like locusts upon the New York State Thruway. Their destination: exit 50, as they shuffle off to Buffalo to follow their beloved Orange.

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VIEWPOINTS/OP-EDS

	The Velocity of Money and Your Business: Why It Matters
	On Feb. 19, the Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate from one-half to three-quarters of 1 percent. This change of one-quarter of a percentage point in the little-used primary credit window resulted in an immediate leap of the U.S. dollar to nine-month highs. Overnight, the value of the dollar rose 0.82 percent and 0.31 percent against the Euro and the Yen, respectively.

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On The Move

	PEOPLE ON THE MOVE - GB -3/15/20010
	ARCHITECTS Jeffery T. Smith, partner and architect at Chianis & Anderson Architects, PLLC, has been honored by the American Institute of Architects’ National Board of Directors as a Citizen Architect for his commitment to his community and to the architecture profession. Among his current positions, Smith serves on the Village of Owego Historic Preservation Commission and the City of Binghamton Commission on Architecture and Urban Design.

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Market Research

Top Ranks Lists
The 2010 Book of Lists electronic edition may be downloaded in Excel format. These 62 lists include key business information (when available) such as number of employees, revenue, products/services offered, and top executives for each company.

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