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Signs show small biz is improving
The evidence may not be a big economic report like gross domestic product or factory orders in a region, but small businesses have their own indicators that the economy is improving. Brown-bag...
Mar 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Oil prices rise on unexpected supply drop
NEW YORK — One day after the price of benchmark crude took the biggest one-day drop this year, it headed up again. Oil rose Wednesday after the Energy Information Administration reported that U....
Mar 22, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Afghan shooting suspect had shaky business dealings
CINCINNATI — The U.S. suspect in the slaughter of 16 villagers in Afghanistan has a trail of shaky financial dealings — from working in penny-stock boiler rooms that drew numerous client complaints...
Mar 21, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Zynga plans $400 million secondary stock offering
LOS ANGELES — Zynga, the maker of online games “FarmVille” and “Words With Friends,” on Wednesday said it will seek to raise $400 million in a secondary public stock offering and rejigger when empl...
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jobs
Electronics engineering technicians — Must have 10 years experience. Operate, test, maintain, repair unmanned/manned, servo-mechanical, electromechanical, and pneumatic controlled equipment. Job or...
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Heinz offers a 10-ounce pouch of its signature ketchup.
More foods going to pouch packaging
CHICAGO — Package food makers are thinking outside the bottle and can. More to the point, they’re increasingly partial to pouches. Kitchen staples from Campbell Soup Co. and H.J. Heinz Co. will ...
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Plant preparing for new Corvette
BOWLING GREEN — The General Motors plant in Bowling Green is in the midst of a $131 million expansion that will allow workers to begin making the next-generation Corvette. “It’s an almost entire...
Mar 18, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Region Briefs
Bill would pay interest on unemployment loan FRANKFORT — A bill approved by the House would let the state borrow money to pay interest on money it borrowed to provide unemployment insurance to K...
Mar 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Sales of coal license plates reach 50,000 FRANKFORT — Gov. Steve Beshear paid homage to the coal industry by marking a milestone in sales of special license plates. Some 50,000 of the black “...
Mar 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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ADAM SHULL | The Sun The dining room was busy Thursday night at Doe's Eat Place, 136 Broadway. A bill in the Kentucky House of Representatives proposes as much as a 3 percent tax on meals in towns such as Paducah.
New tax on the menu?
A bill in the state House of Representatives proposes a restaurant tax of up to 3 percent to tack on to each meal at eateries in Kentucky. HB 368, which is assigned to the House Appropriations a...
Mar 11, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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