Business Grants in the News
10-Nov-2008

New Orleans panel to hold hearing on business grants (WWL-TV, Channel 4 New Orleans)
NEW ORLEANS -- A New Orleans' City Council committee plans to hold a hearing Wednesday on the original intent of legislation enacting an economic development fund.

Veterans Small Business Grants Awarded to Stimulate Business Development (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WASHINGTON----The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded more than $450,000 in Veterans Assistance and Services Grants to fund programs that promote business ownership for veterans and services to small businesses, including those dealing with deployment of key personnel overseas.

AP IMPACT: After US goes, Iraqi city faces vacuum (The State)
The two sides squared off in a brightly patterned tent big enough to hold about 100 angry Sunni Muslim clan chiefs, the Shiite Muslim police chief, two Shiite government officials and - overseeing all - one frustrated senior U.S. Army officer. In the Arab world, such tents are put up for weddings, wakes or tribal gatherings where the local sheik hears grievances. The "sheik" in this case is Lt. ...

AP IMPACT: After US goes, Iraqi city faces vacuum (The Charlotte Observer)
(By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer) The two sides squared off in a brightly patterned tent big enough to hold about 100 angry Sunni Muslim clan chiefs, the Shiite Muslim police chief, two Shiite government officials and - overseeing all - one frustrated senior U.S. Army officer. In the Arab world, such tents are put up for weddings, wakes or tribal gatherings where the local sheik hears ...

Florida governor's economic tour takes him to Tamarac (Sun-Sentinel)
As City Furniture employees waited excitedly on Friday for Gov. Charlie Crist to tour the furniture retailer's Tamarac headquarters in Broward County , showroom salesmen were hoping he would buy furniture.

When Turned Down For A Business Loan, Turn To A Business Grant (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The National Institute of Business Grants is encouraging entrepreneurs to look to business grants for financing, when turned down for a loan.

AP IMPACT: After US goes, Iraqi city faces vacuum (Las Vegas Sun)
Sun, Nov 9, 2008 (8:45 a.m.) The two sides squared off in a brightly patterned tent big enough to hold about 100 angry Sunni Muslim clan chiefs, the Shiite Muslim police chief, two Shiite government officials and _ overseeing all _ one frustrated senior U.S. Army officer.