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St. Louis Cookie Stand Lawsuit Goes to Court (Update)

July 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Remember the story of sisters Caitlin and Abigail Mills, the St. Louis-area girls who were told to close their cookie stand by local bureaucrats who insisted they were violating city ordinances?  Well, the girls — 16 and 14, respectively — are back in the news and headed to court. On Thursday morning, according to attorneys [...]

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Mexican Trucks Inch Closer to U.S. Highways

April 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment

Independent American truckers are not happy about Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s announcement Friday that included details of a proposed, phased long-haul, cross-border trucking program between the United States and Mexico. “This is the wrong plan at the wrong time for numerous reasons,” said Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. “It’s [...]

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Presidents, Pensions and Energy Prices

March 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment

Every day, I receive news releases from organizations hoping I’ll pass along important news about their organizations to you, my readers.  Today, however, was one of those days when I simply had no time to write anything for immediate consumption.  As a result, I opted to share a few tidbits from my “news release” file.  [...]

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Carpenters’ District Council Campaign Against Dollar Tree Killing Another Small Business (Update)

August 18th, 2010 · 9 Comments

For more than a year now, the Carpenters’ District Council of Greater St. Louis and Vicinity has taken aim at Dollar Tree stores in nearly two-dozen shopping centers across the metro.  Why?  Because they’re miffed about the national discount retailer’s decision to use out-of-state labor to perform labor tasks at their stores. Though union members [...]

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Obama ‘Scaring Dickens Out of Small Businesses’

April 13th, 2010 · 1 Comment

An e-mail exchange took place last week between a St. Louis man who describes himself as “a long-time customer” of a large retail store chain and a representative of the company’s customer service department.  It began April 3 with a simple question: “Are you planning on bringing a (name of company) to the St. Louis [...]

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Is She Greedy? Small Business Owner Pays Employees $400K, Pays Herself 20 Cents an Hour (Update)

April 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Many people on the left like to paint business owners as greedy.  Sandy Richter owns Sandy’s Back Porch, a garden center and gift shop in Belleville, Ill., and she doesn’t fit that description. One person in a crowd of more than 500 who attended the at the Tea Party Express III rally Monday afternoon in [...]

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President Obama to Hold Banking Summit Monday

December 10th, 2009 · No Comments

President Barack Obama plans to hold a Banking Summit Monday, according to a Bloomberg report today. Among those participating in the event, said to be a forum for discussing the president’s proposals to boost small-business lending and overhaul industry regulations, will be executives from 12 banks, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase and others [...]

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