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		<title>Small business owners react to Obama Health Care Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small business owners employee about 80% of the population!
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I am a restaurant owner, and I have had this restaurant for over 16 year. I have over 10 employees currently, some part-time, and some full time. It is not I don&#8217;t want to provide health care for my employee, I just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwabiz.wordpress.com&blog=3552564&post=576&subd=nwabiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starting up in an economic downturn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about starting a business or buying a business but you&#8217;re unsure of these &#8220;economic&#8221; times? Just look at the other Arkansas start ups that were born out of hard times in this article by David J. Sanders:
Starting up in an economic downturn

Only the strong survive economic downturns like the one we’re in now. And [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwabiz.wordpress.com&blog=3552564&post=574&subd=nwabiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chrysler gives heave-ho to 789 dealers, 8 in state</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chrysler LLC on Thursday told 789 of its new-vehicle dealers, including eight in Arkansas, that it will terminate their franchise agreements, forcing them to stop selling Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep products in less than four weeks.
Chrysler is breaking contracts with about a quarter of its 3,188 retail outlets nationally. It has 36 dealerships in Arkansas.
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		<title>What “darker side” of Dickson Street?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Fayetteville Flyer the community is discussing the recent coverage by 40/29 of the &#8220;Darker Side of Dickson Street&#8221; which you can read and watch here. Here is a clip from the article at FayettevilleFlyer.com written by Todd Gill:
40/29 News’ Tiffany Stewart recently was allowed to follow the Fayetteville Police Department as officers patrolled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwabiz.wordpress.com&blog=3552564&post=564&subd=nwabiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kris Allen:  &#8220;Heartless&#8221; (video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 15:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I realize this has little to do with business, but it does have something to do with putting Arkansas on the map nationally!
Arkansas&#8217;s own Kris Allen preforms an incredible rendition of Heartless on American Idol. Did he secure his spot in the top 2?
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		<title>From Unemployed to Employer: Providing more options at the NWA Job Fair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ray Ellen, Intermediary with CBI-Sunbelt in Lowell, AR
View this article at my Column on Newsvine!
On Monday, May 4th, 2009, CBI-Sunbelt attended the NWA Job Fair at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers, AR. It started at noon and lasted until seven that evening. As I walked back through the lobby at 11:45, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwabiz.wordpress.com&blog=3552564&post=554&subd=nwabiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deficit spending reaches 2 Trillion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is breaking news&#8230; There will be more information released today. I will try to update the sources as the information is released.
Sources:

5/12/09: Video1:  FOXBusiness.com
5/12/09: Congressional Budget Office Monthly Review &#8211; April: [pdf] [html]
5/11/09: USAToday: Budget Deficit to Top 1.8 Trillion
5/11/09: Video: Ron Paul on FoxBusiness with Dave Asman


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		<title>ANB Failure Proves Costly</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SPRINGDALE — The failure of Roger’s-based ANB Financial bank has cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. $819.4 million as of March 31, the agency said.
But in terms perhaps less tangible, the region has paid in lost jobs, vacant real estate and a host of charitable contributions lost when the bank ceased operations.
Federal regulators descended upon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwabiz.wordpress.com&blog=3552564&post=546&subd=nwabiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Arkansas&#8217; First Nanomanufacturing Plant Set to Open</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 17:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arkansas&#8217; first nanomanufacturing facility is set to open in Springdale.
Duralor LLC, a Springdale-based producer of high-performance coatings and coating processes for cutting tools and machine-wear parts, announced Tuesday that it will open a production and R&#38;D site May 29. The facility, located in the Springdale Technology Park, will also house NanoMech&#8217;s headquarters and joint research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwabiz.wordpress.com&blog=3552564&post=544&subd=nwabiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small businesses need tax breaks, access to credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 19:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anxiety pervades the small-business community of Texas and the rest of America. Owners are struggling to make payroll, to build inventory, to keep the doors open another day.
Over the past year, the mortality rate has accelerated, and you can see evidence of that on Main Street of any city or town across the country, where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nwabiz.wordpress.com&blog=3552564&post=539&subd=nwabiz&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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