Local businesses that surround the Presidents’ Plaza East and West Parking Lots, near El Paseo and Highway 111, are frustrated with the lack in parking. They say its deterred customers even more during this pandemic. Residents have also voiced their concerns saying there has been little-to-no parking available for months. The City of Palm Desert...Read More
The W.N.B.A. has raised $75 million from more than two dozen investors in a bid to revamp its business model as players call for expansion, higher salaries and better benefits. The funding includes investments from Nike, Condoleezza Rice, Laurene Powell Jobs, Pau Gasol, N.B.A. and W.N.B.A. team owners, and other sports and business figures. “We’re...Read More
Once an educator, a D.C. woman says she took a major leap to become a business owner and has never looked back. Angel Gregorio took the leap into owning a business when she opened The Spice Suite in D.C. (Courtesy SamJohnson3 Photography) This report is part of WTOP’s coverage of Black History Month. Read more...Read More
Feb 02, 2022, 9:21pmUpdated 55m ago By: News 12 Staff A Long Beach fitness instructor is searching for the person who hacked her business’s Instagram. Colette Lee Morales works at Core 95 and depends on the social media app to advertise her classes, several charities, coat drives and her hairstyling business. Morales says she clicked...Read More
Chelsea Kidd quit her job in 2021 to start SiteWell Solutions, a wellness consulting business focusing on remote workers. Source: Chelsea Kidd The “Great Resignation” has workers leaving their jobs in droves. Yet they aren’t all looking for a new company to work for — many have opted to go into business for themselves. In...Read More
Carolyn R. Wilson | For the Washington County News CHILHOWIE, Va. — The cool thing about Kayla and Chris Roe’s mobile café business isn’t just the food — it’s their kitchen on wheels that’s turning heads. The Chilhowie couple opened Lemon Bean & Co., a food truck business, last fall after their neighbor agreed to...Read More
___ Climate change a rising Fed concern as nominees face hearing WASHINGTON (AP) — How far the Federal Reserve can go to compel banks to consider the consequences of climate change in their lending policies could take center stage at a Senate hearing Thursday on the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin and two economists to...Read More
Most notably, they gutted the requirement that borrowers who wanted their loans forgiven maintain their prepandemic head counts. And they reduced the percentage of the loan that borrowers seeking forgiveness had to spend on payroll, to 60 percent from 75 percent. That allowed business owners to spend more of the money on rent, utilities and...Read More
The B&O Railroad Museum in Baltimore will show three movies focused on three different eras of Black history. “Amistad,” which is about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, will be shown at 3 p.m. Feb. 12 at the museum at 901 W. Pratt St. “Harriet,” about Underground Railroad conductor and freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, and “Selma,” which...Read More
The SBA’s Payment Protection Program was among the lifelines established to help struggling businesses during the height of the pandemic. ST PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota-based U.S. Attorney’s Office says a St. Paul man has pleaded guilty to charges of fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft in a scheme to defraud over $840,000 in...Read More
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