Business Grants in the News
19-Nov-2008
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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