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The Vacaville Reporter - Fri Dec 4, 4:08 am ET
Praise for small-business endeavors, volunteerism and gratitude for community support crowded the menu -- besides chicken and beef main dishes -- at the Spirit of Solano luncheon Thursday, which honored county businesses, business owners and their
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Anniston Star - Fri Dec 4, 4:06 am ET
The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) will offer one-on-one counseling for prospective and existing small-business owners at no charge.
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Anniston Star - Fri Dec 4, 4:06 am ET
The Jacksonville State University Small Business Development Center, the Small Business Administration, and the Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce will offer one-on-one counseling for prospective and existing small business owners at no charge Dec. 17 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the chamber office.
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Casper Journal - Fri Dec 4, 2:59 am ET
Small businesses will play an important role in the economic future of Wyoming.
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MSN Money - Thu Dec 3, 11:17 pm ET
In the next year, the IRS plans to look closely at small-business owners, the self-employed and those with overseas accounts. Here's how to be ready if an auditor comes knocking.
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The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 3, 7:01 pm ET
There is no government program that can substitute for a good job that pays well. A key function of government, however, is to create conditions that help businesses grow and hire new workers.
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Washington Post - Thu Dec 3, 6:40 pm ET
More than a dozen small-business owners offered anecdotes Thursday to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills about their struggles trying to stay afloat amid the worst economic downturn in generations. Seated around a rectangular table on the fifth...
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Lawrence Journal-World - Thu Dec 3, 3:59 pm ET
When President Barack Obama convenes a jobs summit today, he and all the brainstorming economists and CEOs, small business owners and labor leaders face a dire predicament.
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NPR - Thu Dec 3, 3:38 pm ET
After a half-day brainstorming session with some of the nation's top CEOs, small-business leaders, union reps and economists, Obama said he'd heard many "exciting ideas and proposals." He said there were some ideas that could be put to work almost immediately and others that would become part of legislation for Congress to consider.
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WebCPA - Thu Dec 3, 2:25 pm ET
Leaders of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship have introduced legislation that would make permanent the $250,000 Section 179 expensing limits for small businesses created under the Recovery Act.
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PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Dec 3, 2:21 pm ET
For California's 3.4 million owners of small businesses, the risk of disability remains one of the most significant threats to not only their personal financial well being, but also their business's viability.
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Tallahassee Democrat - Thu Dec 3, 2:12 pm ET
Getting a small business loan now is extremely difficult. Many financial institutions — both community and national — are not making loans at all. For the few that do, the requirements are onerous with heavy collateral requirements and big down payments.
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Journal of Commerce Online - Thu Dec 3, 11:04 am ET
Potomac, MD (Dec 3, 2009) - Charles "Shorty" Whittington, President of Grammer Industries in Grammer, Indiana, and immediate past chairman of the American Trucking Associations, will be joining other CEOs, small business owners, labor leaders and non-profit executives in a forum at the White House today that will allow the President to hear ideas on how to continue growing the economy and ...
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Bennington Banner - Thu Dec 3, 11:00 am ET
BENNINGTON -- A small-business owner says he feels crushed that town officials are preventing him from reopening his automobile repair shop behind the Leonard-Holden Mill in space that housed a similar repair shop a few years ago.
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The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 3, 10:29 am ET
What's Your Reaction? As 130 business, labor and thought leaders converge on the White House today to discuss ways to create more jobs, the nation's main engine for job creation -- small businesses -- is stalled out.
