Real estate slowdown's toll, by the millions (Santa Fe New Mexican)
The downturn in Santa Fe real estate sales has hurt the local economy more than residents realize. It has resulted in almost $32 million dollars that "has not changed hands locally," said Alan Ball, who puts out a monthly newsletter that tracks the Santa Fe real estate market.
From a business patriarch, insight on the economy (The Sarasota Herald-Tribune)
Nathan Benderson, chairman of a major Manatee County-based commercial development company, offers perspective as a businessman, and someone who came of age during the Depression.
Fred Nance has crossed boundaries both real and symbolic (The Cleveland Plain Dealer)
Chris Stephens/The Plain DealerFred Nance watches over Cleveland from his perch in a corner office at Squire Sanders & Dempsey. Nance, who grew up on Cleveland's East Side and dreamed one day of becoming a lawyer, is one of the...
Businesses have options if they can't pay IRS (Louisville Courier-Journal)
A day of reckoning is approaching for some small-business owners: Wednesday, when those who got extensions of the deadline for filing 2007 tax returns must send in their completed forms -- and pay any tax they owe.
Deposits lift bank to $6.4M profit (Daily Press)
Loans to businesses and consumers fleeing large commercial banks contributed to TowneBank's strong quarter. As the U.S. financial system was becoming paralyzed by a sea of toxic assets in recent months, TowneBank increased its profits by 7 percent.
Brooklyn's Retail Boom (Gotham Gazette)
How does a thriving, growing locality retain the attractive, small, independent businesses that helped make it distinctive while permitting - even encouraging - the entry of large, inexpensive, national chain stores to serve customers' everyday needs?