PROVIDENCE ? Adler Pollock & Sheehan PC, one of the largest law firms in Rhode Island, today announced a new partnership with the Minority Investment Development Corp. (MIDC) and the Rhode Island Coalition for Minority Investment (RICMI).
Business Briefing (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Sotto Wireless begins trials in North Carolina ... Work starts on Imperium biodiesel plan ... GlaxoSmithKline to lay off 80 in Bothell ... Insurance startup Torrent settles litigation ... DocuSign cuts nine, including sales executive ... Cascade Natural Gas on road to acquisition ... Red Hat to buy back $325 million in shares ... also, new top officers and shipping news.
BEE builds white business (Mail and Guardian)
South Africa seems to be so fixated on BEE that the unprecedented white economic empowerment taking place is either not noticed, simply assumed to be natural, or denied. The fact that it makes for an uncomfortable acronym probably doesn?t help either.
Va. worker wins grievance over blog (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A well-known conservative blogger has been awarded back pay after the Virginia Department of Business Assistance temporarily suspended him for postings that insulted Martinsville-area officials.
Duplin Wine Cellars Co-Founder to Keynote CED's Opportunity 2006 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
WILMINGTON, N.C.----The Council for Entrepreneurial Development announced today announced that David Fussell, Sr., co-founder of Duplin Wine Cellars, will join previously announced speakers Don DeBethizy, Ph.D., President and CEO of Targacept Inc., and John McConnell, former chairman and CEO of A4 Health Systems, in providing featured remarks at Opportunity 2006.
GOP official runs as ?not an insider? (Wapakoneta Daily News)
Ohioans need a fresh perspective in Columbus when it comes to running elections ? not the same old faces, says a GOP candidate for the highest elections post in the state.
Sharples: Income Tax Bill; First Reading (Scoop.co.nz)
This Bill is the final instalment of an income tax legislation tidy-up project. It is a mammoth Bill, indeed volumes of parts and clauses, transitional provisions, binding rulings and accrual determinations.
Urban entrepreneurs (Small Business Times)
The phones at the new Urban Entrepreneur Partnership (UEP) office in Milwaukee were just plugged in recently and already they are ringing off the hook.
Small business summit to start today (SABC News)
Today is the beginning of the Annual Small Business Summit promoting the voice of small business, a two-day summit that seeks improve the profile of the small business sector.
South Sound business people (The Olympian)
Tom DiDonna, R.N., education coordinator at Mason General Hospital, was recently asked to lead a delegation of physicians and nurses to represent the American Heart Association in a voluntary, international Advanced Resuscitation educational endeavor in Paraguay at the end of November.
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