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Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
These are the top 10 NY counties for small businesses, according to SmartAsset
Dutchess, Ulster, Orange and Sullivan counties all made the top 10 in a ranking of the best counties for small business owners in the state compiled by the financial technology company SmartAsset. SmartAsset recently published its ranking of all counties in all 50 states and how they stack up when it comes to being a good place to be a small business. In New York, SmartAsset said Ulster County ranks as the third-best county for small business owners, followed by Dutchess County in sixth place, Orange County in eighth place and Sullivan County in ninth place. SmartAsset said it considered five factors to determine which counties were the best places for small business owners. Those factors were the percentage of people in a county with small business income; the percentage of total income coming from small businesses; the amount of tax a potential resident must pay on their income; the five-year change of small business ownership rate; and the five-year change of small business income. To determine how attractive a region is for small business owners, SmartAsset compared the number of tax returns that reported small business income to the total tax-filing population of the region. Next, they compared the total amount of small business income to the total income reported in each region. Then they measured the change in those variables over a five-year period. According to SmartAsset, small businesses are typically incorporated as pass-through entities, which means that the business owners pay income taxes on the company profits rather than the company itself paying income tax. More: REAL ID deadline is approaching. What to know, how to apply in mid-Hudson Valley Because of this, income taxes can play a major role in determining the financial success of a small business. To determine income tax burdens across counties, SmartAsset used the national median household income and then applied relevant deductions and exemptions before calculating federal, state and local income taxes for each location. Those five factors were then indexed and equally weighted to yield SmartAsset's Small Business Index. The places with the highest Small Business Index scores are the places that ranked highest in the study. Ulster County's index score was 50.3, followed by Dutchess County at 47, Orange County at 46.33 and Sullivan County at 45.52. Columbia County, which is just north of Dutchess County, ranked at the top of SmartAsset's list of all counties in the state, with an index score of 54.71. Columbia County Yates County Ulster County Greene County Suffolk County Dutchess County Seneca County Orange County Sullivan County Delaware County Miami-Dade, Florida. Gaines County, Texas. Bristol Bay, Alaska. Broward, Florida. Monroe, Florida. Sully, South Dakota. Collier, Florida. Hand, South Dakota. Hopkins, Texas. Young, Texas. Mike Randall covers breaking news for the Times Herald-Record and the Poughkeepsie Journal. Reach him at mrandall@ This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: These NY counties are the best for small businesses, SmartAsset ranks Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Dutchess County home listings asked for more money in February - see the current median price here
The median home in Dutchess County listed for $549,500 in February, up 1% from the previous month's $543,947, an analysis of data from shows. Compared to February 2024, the median home list price decreased 5.9% from $583,000. The statistics in this article only pertain to houses listed for sale in Dutchess County, not houses that were sold. Information on your local housing market, along with other useful community data, is available at Dutchess County's median home was 2,141 square feet, listed at $271 per square foot. The price per square foot of homes for sale is up 8.5% from February 2024. Listings in Dutchess County moved steadily, at a median 75 days listed compared to the February national median of 66 days on the market. In the previous month, homes had a median of 84 days on the market. Around 188 homes were newly listed on the market in February, a 10.5% decrease from 210 new listings in February 2024. The median home prices issued by may exclude many, or even most, of a market's homes. The price and volume represent only single-family homes, condominiums or townhomes. They include existing homes, but exclude most new construction as well as pending and contingent sales. Across the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area, median home prices rose to $766,889, slightly higher than a month earlier. The median home had 1,473 square feet, at a list price of $538 per square foot. In New York, median home prices were $659,974, a slight increase from January. The median New York home listed for sale had 1,559 square feet, with a price of $414 per square foot. Throughout the United States, the median home price was $412,000, a slight increase from the month prior. The median American home for sale was listed at 1,791 square feet, with a price of $227 per square foot. The median home list price used in this report represents the midway point of all the houses or units listed over the given period of time. Experts say the median offers a more accurate view of what's happening in a market than the average list price, which would mean taking the sum of all listing prices then dividing by the number of homes sold. The average can be skewed by one particularly low or high price. The USA TODAY Network is publishing localized versions of this story on its news sites across the country, generated with data from Please leave any feedback or corrections for this story here. This story was written by Ozge Terzioglu. This article originally appeared on Poughkeepsie Journal: Dutchess County home listings asked for more money in February - see the current median price here
USA Today
29-01-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Bill Burr slams Howie Mandel for surprising him with possible half-brother Billy Corgan
Bill Burr slams Howie Mandel for surprising him with possible half-brother Billy Corgan Show Caption Hide Caption Billy Corgan on NWA champion Matt Cardona and why he understands him NWA's Matt Cardona has had a lot to prove to the world of pro wrestling. Billy Corgan explains why Cardona is the best of his time yet still unappreciated. Miguel Fernandez and Phil Strum, Poughkeepsie Journal Bill Burr isn't happy with Howie Mandel. During a Monday appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show," the comedian, 56, slammed Mandel for surprising him with Billy Corgan during a recent podcast interview. Mandel framed the ambush as a family reunion, as Corgan previously theorized that Burr might be his half-brother. While Burr expressed annoyance in the original interview, fans were unsure whether he was mad or if he was only joking. On "The Rich Eisen Show," though, Burr suggested he definitely did not approve of Mandel's stunt. USA TODAY has reached out to representatives for Mandel for comment. "Howie did what he did because he is a Hollywood whore, and he doesn't care what happens," Burr said. "He could have said something, and he just brings up all that weirdness. ... I did not appreciate what Howie did. Not at all." Bill Burr, Billy Corgan address whether they're half-brothers Despite this, Burr said that Mandel is "hard to hate," joking, "How do you hate a germaphobe? He's not threatening." The comedian also noted he has no ill will toward Corgan, saying the Smashing Pumpkins guitarist is "fine." In November, Corgan appeared on the "Howie Mandel Does Stuff" podcast and revealed that about 10 years earlier, his stepmother told him that Burr "might be one of the children that your father sired in his days being a traveling musician." He suggested this could be possible because his dad "did once tell me that I had a half-brother named Bill, who was born around the same time as me." But he clarified that after sitting on it, he doesn't really think they're related. Still, when Burr appeared on "Howie Mandel Does Stuff" last week, the "America's Got Talent" judge surprised him during their interview by bringing out Corgan to sit next to him. This was the first time the two had met. Bill Burr declares cancel culture 'over,' Bill Maher says Louis C.K. was reprimanded 'enough' "I thought this would be great, to bring family together," Mandel said, and the podcast episode was titled "Family Reunion." As soon as Corgan entered, Burr seemed unhappy, asking, "Can this be edited out, or no?" He asked Corgan why he felt "the need" to bring up the idea that they could be half-brothers and told him, "Did you ever think the fact that I never told that story, that maybe you shouldn't?" Throughout the subsequent conversation, Burr spoke as if he and Corgan legitimately share the same father, although it was somewhat unclear if he was only playing along with that idea as a bit. "At some point, it did become funny to me that he had multiple families," Burr said, adding that "my dad told us he was a dentist" and "didn't do the whole musician thing." Burr also slammed Mandel during the episode, saying the host only cared about "ratings" and that the ambush was "rude," although he added, "I still love you, even though you did this." When Mandel continued to probe the two while playing emotional piano music, the comic asked, "Dude, you haven't gone far enough at this point?" Mandel eventually left the room entirely, leaving Burr and Corgan to talk as the piano music kept playing. Corgan was apparently not in on the stunt. He expressed surprise that Burr did not know he was coming on the show and said that Mandel "totally set me up."
