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Small Business
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Monday, December 1, 2008
New tax rules add to anxiety
Business |
December 1, 2008
Small-business owners are having a tough time trying to figure out the best year-end tax strategies for 2008 as the global financial meltdown turns conventional planning wisdom on its head. Read more
Restoring flow of credit to firms
Business |
December 1, 2008
The credit crunch looks like an espresso machine. Read more
Monday, November 24, 2008
Painting her way out of a corner
Business |
November 24, 2008
Painting a jungle mural from a kit in the bedroom of her new twin grandchildren was giving the artist in Patricia Newton a pain in the neck. Read more
Small vendors to offer policy agenda
Business |
November 24, 2008
A “top 11” list doesn’t have the zing of a “top 10,” but that’s how many items were squeezed onto the wish list voted on last week by small-business owners and others who met to decide how California can refuel its economic engine of 3.2 million small firms. Read more
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Purse strings tighten at Bob Baker’s Marionette Theater
California | Local |
November 22, 2008
From the outside, the low-slung, white concrete building huddled underneath the Beverly Boulevard bridge looked like any other building in its industrial area just west of downtown, adorned with razor wire and a forbidding exterior. Read more
Groovy, not granny
Home & Garden |
November 22, 2008
Erika Kern is not quite Martha Stewart. Read more
Monday, November 17, 2008
Making a dime on thrifty diners
Business |
November 17, 2008
Restaurateurs across the nation are conducting focus groups, cooking up promotional campaigns and generally struggling in vain to get their old diners to start eating out again. Read more
Monday, November 10, 2008
Starting up is getting harder to do
Business |
November 10, 2008
A trio of new reports provides more evidence that small businesses, considered by many to be an engine of economic growth, could have a tough time pulling the country back to prosperity. Read more
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Surfboard maker paddles on
California | Local |
November 5, 2008
Eyeing the foam plank in front of him, Guy Okazaki envisions the lines and angles that help a surfboard glide across the face of a wave. Read more
Monday, November 3, 2008
Building a new career as the boss
Business |
November 3, 2008
After spending years climbing the corporate ladder at national credit card issuer MBNA Corp., Craig Lewis decided he wasn’t going to be content unless he could run his own company. Read more
State to air small businesses’ policy ideas
Business |
November 3, 2008
Later this month, Gov. Read more
Monday, October 27, 2008
Small-firm contract tally may be inflated, SBA says
Business |
October 27, 2008
The federal government last year fell just shy of its goal of giving small businesses almost a quarter of its contracts, but the Small Business Administration warned that error-filled data submitted by agencies might have falsely inflated the government’s numbers. Read more
Firm’s growth is boxed in
Business |
October 27, 2008
The back wall at the Melrose Avenue shop Fancifull Gift Baskets is dominated by a giant organizational chart detailing who does what in dozens of jobs across seven divisions and 21 departments. Read more
Monday, October 20, 2008
Take steps to ride out tough times
Business |
October 20, 2008
If you owe money to Tom Anderson’s employee-recruiting company, don’t expect to take your time paying. Read more
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Iraqi has a soft spot for tradition
World |
October 16, 2008
Mohammed Fawzi Radhi makes his living putting people to sleep. Read more
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Big chains a headache for small drugstores
Business |
October 8, 2008
The pharmacy business in Southern California is cutthroat. Read more
Monday, October 6, 2008
Taxes due? The IRS may OK a payment plan
Business |
October 6, 2008
A day of reckoning is approaching for some small-business owners: Oct. Read more
Credit-hungry firms have options
Business |
October 6, 2008
The Contos family knows the bitter taste of the credit crunch. Read more
Monday, September 29, 2008
Money stress puts strain on small firms’ employees
Business |
September 29, 2008
Robert Fellman can see it on his employees’ faces: the fear, stress and discomfort that come from a difficult, even scary, economic climate. Read more
Re-tuning her music firm
Business |
September 29, 2008
After almost a decade of harmony, the market for Ida Larsen’s song kits has hit a sour note. Read more
