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HOWES CAVE
Outlook 2013: Kintz Plastics lands contracts that formerly would go to Chinese firms
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
For nearly four decades, Kintz Plastics in Howes Cave has rolled with the economic punches that come from changes in industries that rely on thermoformed plastic parts.
SARATOGA
Outlook 2013: Excursion railway meets with quick success and growing popularity
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
The Saratoga & North Creek Railway received some unexpected national recognition when a man calling himself the Excited Train Guy posted a video on YouTube.
Outlook 2013: Success of Mazzone family empire built on reputation
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
On a snowy morning just a few days after Christmas, Angelo Mazzone got a phone call.
Snow was falling heavily and steadily creating whiteout conditions that had cars slipping on slick roads and plows working in full force, barely clearing the roads before they were covered again. Employees across the region were calling in to work, warning their bosses they would probably be late.
Snow was falling heavily and steadily creating whiteout conditions that had cars slipping on slick roads and plows working in full force, barely clearing the roads before they were covered again. Employees across the region were calling in to work, warning their bosses they would probably be late.
Outlook 2013: Breweries and restaurants following consumers’ desire to buy local
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Restaurants want to give you beer made nearby, which in some cases means they’ll brew it themselves.
Outlook 2013: New restaurant’s signature ingredient all over menu
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Waffles are Linnaea DiNallo’s specialty — sweet waffles, savory waffles and even mashed potato waffles.
Outlook 2013: New neighborhoods will favor sneakers over cars
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
If you believe what regional planners are predicting, there will be an additional 60,000 people living in the Capital Region’s cities, towns and villages 30 years from now.
AMSTERDAM
Outlook 2013: St. Mary's looks to cut readmissions
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
When frail patients go right home not long after surgery, they run the risk of complications like infections, a situation that leads to more-costly readmissions.
SCHENECTADY
Outlook 2013: A mile here, a mile there adds up for Transfinder
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
While much of the business community was sweating the national recession, Tony Civitella was doing what he always does with his company: Calculating how to do things more efficiently.
HALFMOON
Outlook 2013: Apprenda offers companies an edge with speedy apps
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
As young software developers building a help desk system, three co-workers thought their jobs would be a lot easier if they could spend more time making software applications and less time deploying them, navigating red tape and making sure they had server space for each new application.
ALBANY
Outlook 2013: More babies squeezing organic food from pouches
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Baby food used to have an image as stable — and bland — as a jar of strained peas. And its target market was limited to, well … babies.
No more.
No more.
Outlook 2013: Smaller hardware stores use service to compete
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
How do small, locally owned hardware stores in the Capital Region stay in business despite the onslaught of big box stores?
WASHINGTON
Outlook 2013: At many companies, machines and software replacing humans
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Art Liscano knows he’s an endangered species in the job market: He’s a meter reader in Fresno, Calif. For 26 years, he’s driven from house to house, checking how much electricity Pacific Gas & Electric customers have used. But PG&E doesn’t need many people like Liscano making rounds anymore. Every day, the utility replaces 1,200 old-fashioned meters with digital versions that can collect information without human help, generate more accurate power bills, even send an alert if the power goes out.
WASHINGTON
Outlook 2013: Google backs efforts to help others through tech
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
Scott Harrison knows his charity has funded nearly 7,000 clean water projects in some of the poorest areas of the world in the past six years. How many of those wells are still flowing with drinking water months or years later, though? That’s a tough question to answer.
CHICAGO
Outlook 2013: Hospital ERs beginning to take reservations
Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013
People who arrive in the ER with less-pressing issues often have to wait for care, sometimes for hours. But when a minor complication sent Uner back to the emergency room at St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, Ill., he was able to make an appointment online and practically waltz right in.
CAPITAL REGION
Outlook 2012: Recovery will come slowly but surely, analyst says
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012
New York state is on track to regain more than 350,000 jobs lost during the recession, but full recovery will take longer than expected and is transforming the state’s economy, according to a labor market analyst with the state Department of Labor.
