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News, articles and information about small businesses, starting and owning and operating a small business, employment law, employment taxes, minimum wage. (Photo iTOWNS)
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South Florida ice cream parlor scoops Cash Mob
South Florida small businesses are about to be mobbed. Cash mobbed, that is. Cash Mob is a grass-roots movement in which a large group of customers converge on a locally owned and operated businesses to shop or dine. But most of all, it shows support for...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Business, Palm Beach County, Ice Cream, Foods and Beverages
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Saige Nicole's owner to receive national award
While recognition by the U.S. Small Business Administration as a national champion is nothing to sneeze about, the honor isn't what made Wendy Navarro tear up Monday. The Costa Mesa store owner got misty-eyed when talking about her 17-year-old daughter,...
Tags: Business, Human Interest
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PPL default electricity rates to go up
Rates for PPL Electric Utilities' default customers will inch up next month under a filing the company submitted Friday to state regulators. The new price for residential customers will be 7.993 cents a kilowatt-hour, up from the current 6.935. It...Tags: Allentown, Electricity Production and Distribution, PPL Corporation
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Md. to launch program to stimulate lending to small businesses
Maryland small businesses gripe that they can't get loans from banks. Lenders complain of a dearth of borrowers. Is there any way to get these two together? The state is going to try, under legislation expected to be signed into law today. Maryland will...Tags: Business, Banking, Science and Technology, Montgomery County (Maryland), Bank of America Corp.
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American capitalism on trial
WASHINGTON -- This election is being fought along the traditional skirmish line of capital versus labor. President Obama projects himself as the protector of workers and families who are preyed upon by greedy and wealthy capitalists. Mitt Romney...
Tags: Moody's Corporation, Bain Capital, LLC, Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, Companies and Corporations
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Suppliers to local small businesses see signs of gradual economic revival
arnoldp@herald-mail.comAmid the bags of ice, cases of two-ply toilet tissue and stacks of lumber being delivered to Washington County businesses, there are signs of economic revival, but uncertainty, too. Small businesses — more than 85 percent of the roughly 3,500...Tags: Business, Employees, Plant Openings, United States Census Bureau, Sales
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MEETINGS
SOUTH BEND The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County will present a member briefing from 8 to 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Chamber Briefing Center, Chamber of Commerce, 401 E. Colfax Ave., Suite 310. All Chamber members are invited to join the Chamber staff...Tags: Business, Naturopathic Medicine, Dale Miller, Health, Morris Park
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Small-business director: Lack of capital still hindering start-ups
Eunice Choi is regional director of the Small Business Development Center at the University of Central Florida, which offers free consulting services to businesses. She spoke with staff writer Sara K. Clarke about National Small Business Week (May 20-26)...
Tags: Business, Conservation, Environmental Issues, Economy, Business and Finance, Marketing
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LeMieux on MSNBC: no regrets for character attacks on Mack
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelSaying that a Connie Mack versus Bill Nelson U.S. Senate contest would be a character race that Mack cannot win, Mack's GOP rival George LeMieux said this morning he has no regrets about attacking Mack's character in the primary contest. Speaking to MSNBC... -
Tinley Park residents to save with new electricity provider
TribLocal - Tinley Park » NewsTinley Park residents should save on average $350 a year on their electric bills once the village’s new electricity aggregation program kicks in later this …... -
Little Professor Book Center writing its final chapter in Eldersburg
When Frank Spruill first looked into franchises more than 30 years ago, he found three options: fast food, automobiles or books. "It was a no brainer," Spruill laughed this past week, standing inside his Little Professor Book Center in Eldersburg....
Tags: Business, Sykesville, Sales
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Cascade Management Group principles pull back on incubator plans
cj.lovelace@herald-mail.comLess than two weeks after a company that announced plans to start a business incubator in Hagerstown met with city and financial representatives, one of its principles says the makeup of the group has changed and the project has been put on hold. Cascade...Tags: Pasadena (Anne Arundel, Maryland), Rentals, Corporate Officers, Collective Contract, Economy, Business and Finance
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