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Endowments seek to bolster their local pedigrees
Tax breaks and reasonable contributions might open wallets
By KATHY KAHN

Want to share quality time with the kids? One way likely one you haven’t thought of is by starting an endowment through your local community foundation.

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Malpractice insurance scalds doctors
For neurosurgeons, it’s well into six figures
BY LYNN WOODS

Dr. Michael Rosenberg, a plastic surgeon based in Mount Kisco and the 2008 president-elect of the Medical Society of the State of New York, pays $65,000 a year in malpractice liability insurance premiums. The doctor, who belongs to an eight-physician reconstructive surgery practice, said the cost of premiums prevents the group from investing in needed expansions and improvements.

Second Careers

West Point librarian is the sum of her experiences
BY KATHY KAHN

If you’ve ever been to a planning board public hearing, you know how heated the debate over changes to the familiar landscape can be. Planners, architects, engineers and the public can go head-to-head through the wee morning hours. Such was life for Laura Mosher, a technician for the Orange County engineering and surveying firm Lanc & Tully.

For some pols, business backgrounds prove a plus
By ALEXANDER SOULE

Asked how his previous experience best prepared him for his second career, and Greg Ball responds it was the time he was stranded alone in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains for a few days of survival training.

Going public
Politicians talk about minding their business
By ALEXANDER SOULE

Ask Dan Debicella whether, given one last job before retirement, he would become governor or chief executive officer of his employer PepsiCo, and he takes only an extra moment to respond.

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