Business Grants in the News
18-Nov-2008
Job creation incentives pushed (The Record)
Business leaders are pushing a new bill that would expand and enhance a law aimed at luring developers to create jobs in urban transit hubs.
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.
EDC Roundtables help strengthen local businesses Chamber Matters More business news at Tallahassee.com/BusinessMatters ... (Tallahassee Democrat)
Attracting high-profile companies to relocate to this area may receive all the headlines, but the bulk of the work to strengthen the region's economic base is focused on helping existing companies be more successful.
U.S. Troops on Frontline of Nation-Building in Iraq (St. Petersburg Times)
ISKANDARIYAH, Iraq ? 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.
News Briefs (The Russellville Courier)
Rummage sale this weekend The Lost Cherokee Nation will conduct a rummage sale beginning at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday in downtown Dover, across the street from PDQ. There will be lots of miscellaneous items. Proceeds will benefit the tribe and assist in funding tribal activities.
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