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The top ten reasons to "shop small" on Small Business Saturday

There hasn’t been a lot of good news in the small-business sector recently. The self-employed are getting hammered by insurance premium increases under the healthcare law, and they are trying to keep their doors open in a challenging economic environment.…

Bulger parents speak of pain over Venables release

Denise Fergus stands with her husband Stuart as she speaks to the press after addressing a parole hearing for Jon Venables by video link from Crosby on May 22, 2013. The parents of the murdered two-year-old toddler expressed their anguish…

What small business owners want you to know

During National Small Business Week, politicians and bureaucrats give a lot of lip service to small business. But you might wonder what the small-business community itself might say if they themselves had the podium this week. Here’s what I think…

The new Grenada — an island paradise and astonishing medical research hub

(PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE AUTHOR) PreviousNext St. George’s, Grenada – Many Americans may know about the Caribbean island of Grenada only if they remember the 1983 US military operation, when…

Why is the NLRB targeting small business?

According to politicians and practitioners on both sides of the aisle, there is a war being waged on practically everyone in America—women, men, working moms, stay-at-home moms, not to mention the perpetual mugging of the “99 percent.” We’ll leave it…