Small Business Grabs Attention in D.C.
Democrats and Republicans battle for the small-biz vote. Speaking from a sandwich shop yesterday in Edison, New Jersey, President Obama declared th... Read more
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The GOP's Stimulus Speciousness
In the waning hours of the GOP's unsuccessful effort to... Read more
The Specter Of Card Check Is Gone, For Now
The fight over the Employee Free Choice Act -- a.ka. "card check" -- appears to have ended bef... Read more
The Specter Of Card Check Is Gone, For Now
The fight over the Employee Free Choice Act -- a.ka. "card check" -- appears to have ended bef... Read more
How to Pick Good Resumes and the Wrong Way to Rebrand
How to look at resumes. Wading through an endless stack of resumes in this increasingly flooded job market? Glenn Kelman CEO of the onlin... Read more
Save Money or Make Money? Which Is Better?
At the moment, I'm glued to CNBC. These are such historic moments, with things changing so fast, that only real-time information will do. We've heard a lo... Read more
Earmarks: Get 'Em While They Last
Does your company need a leg up in the marketplace? Is the Navy's procurement officer giving your widgets the cold shoulder? Then act now -- it may not b... Read more
UPDATE: The Clock Still Ticks For Earmarks
Earlier this month, Rep. David Obey, the Democratic chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, sent his Republican colleagues a letter that forced a ... Read more
Live-Blogging the NFIB Summit: The GOP's Fading Fortunes
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And The Republican Economic Debate Winner is...Huckabee?
The Republican Economic Debate, held Tuesday afternoon in Dearborn, MI, was mostly a predictable contest -- almost as predictable as when the Democrats ta... Read more
Clip File: Republicans Warm Up To Climate Change
Al Gore's Nobel win may have some Republicans crying politics, but an ... Read more
The Granite State Race Isn't Set In Stone
A new survey of likely primary voters in New Hampshire reveals that the races in both parties are shifting -- though in different ways. Both the Democrati... Read more
Senate Advances Small Business Aid Package
The bill, which includes a $30-billion loan fund, is now all but guaranteed to pass. Read more
Senate Defeats Minimum Wage Hike
March 8, 2005 -- Efforts to attach minimum-wage increase proposals to legislation designed to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy law were d... Read more
Profiting from Politics
Whether John McCain or Barack Obama becomes the next president, a handful of entrepreneurs plan to enjoy -- and make money from -- this political season. Read more
Obama’s Big Gamble Over Small Business Job Growth
How can Obama have the biggest impact when he speaks to Congress about job creation Thursday evening? Read more
The Union Label
With Labor Day come and gone, union endorsements are piling up. So who's zoomin' who? Hillary Clinton collected two big endorsements last week, fr... Read more
Awash in Fed Dollars
Does Rosemary Barbour's American dream need a wake-up call? Last spring, the Bush campaign team tapped Barbour, a 37-year-old born and raised in G... Read more
Decision Iowa: An Entrepreneurs' Forum -- Part I
Is it just me, or do this year's Iowa Caucuses seem more important than ever? (It could just be me, I suppose: I'm from Iowa, so I'm biased, and I also ha... Read more
The Obama Administration: Now What?
Barack Obama campaigned on an agenda of change -- from increased financial oversight to health-care reform. But with an economic crisis that shows no signs o... Read more
Republicans Stall, Democrats Abandon Climate Bill
Climate bill, we hardly knew ye. I thought I'd have more time to gather my thoughts on the massive global warming legislation that the Senate Read more
Republicans Debate Climate; Moderator Loses (And Huckabee Surprises)
I'm still trying to sort out why I found the exchange on global warming in yesterday's Republican debate so surprising. Was it my imagination, or did the ... Read more
The Climate Begins To Change In The Senate
It is perhaps fitting that just a day after the Senate commenced debate on greenhouse gas cap-and-trade Read more
Federal Cash for Infrastructure Slow to Flow
A year and a half after Congress voted for $862 billion in stimulus funds, huge chunks of it are still waiting to be spent. Read more
House Race Sealed
Nov. 3, 2004 --While the presidential election still remains in limbo this morning, the House of Representatives' future has been sealed b... Read more
In This Election, NFIB Aims Its Fire Like A Sniper
You may be wondering where the National Federation of Independent Business has been hiding this election cycle. Normally... Read more
The Jobs Bill and You
Senate passes hiring incentives . A measure designed to provide financial incentives for companies to hire new employees looks set to pass the Senat... Read more
The Senate: Unstimulated, For Now
Senate Democrats were apparently repelled by Montana Senator (and Finance Committee chair) Max Baucus's audacious move to Read more
Bill Of Particulars: Richardson Details Health Plan
Claiming that "We cannot afford a healthcare system that doesn't cover every American -- the cost to our economy and the well-being of our people is just ... Read more
The New Labor Landscape
Speaking late last year, Chamber of Commerce labor lobbyist Randy Johnson saw the future, and it looked grim. The Democratic president-elect promised to r... Read more
Small Businesses Grapple with New Health Care Law
One important aspect of the legislation: Two part-timers count as one full-timer for the purposes of determining whether a business is required by law to pro... Read more
Obama's Big Speech
That speech today? Pretty much Read more
Up For Debate
Last night, two ridiculously rich rivals went at it, as the media relentlessly over hyped every machination, every physical nuance, every utterance, and e... Read more
McCain: Gov't Should Help Entrepreneurs -- By Getting Out of Their Way
John McCain is courting the negociocito vote. The only GOP candidate who agreed to debate on Univision in August spoke to the Hispanic Business E... Read more
A Senator's Exit Interview
As he prepares to leave Congress, Senator Bob Bennett of Utah reflects on his life in business and in politics. Read more
The Case for Election-Year Empiricism
A staple of any election year is the cacophony of newspaper endorsements, which for the most part tend to follow established political patterns. It comes ... Read more
Decision Iowa: The Aftermath
Anyone with even a trace of enthusiasm for politics had to be mesmerized by the proceedings in Iowa last night. Today, Senator Barack Obama arrived with a... Read more
Democrats Debate: Brave New Format, Same Old Answers
You would've had a hard time finding nuggets of specific interest to the small business community in last night's Read more
Iowa Entrepreneurs Decide (Or Not): None Of The Above?
Notwithstanding the fact that these days you can't walk down the street in Des Moines without running into one or another campaign entourage, our panelist... Read more
Health Care Reform, Oh My!
Our upcoming healthcare reform event certainly has people talking. The event, to be held on Read more
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