I’m always seeing new business ideas, so I bring them here to share. Maybe one of these will work from your small town: Service I need: someone to stock the fridge and have dinner on the stove when I get home from travel.— Amber Naslund (@AmberCadabra) October 27, 2012 Sounds like an interesting sideline for […]
Archives for November 2012
Small towns are "investment ready places"
Investment Ready Places is a new description of small towns and mid sized cities, from the team at Street Sense: Atul Sharma, Kevin Lavelle and Joseph Nickol. Small towns and cities have lots of potential. Mid-tier towns and cities are our most dynamic urban settlements and have the largest untapped potential for fostering economic growth. They vary […]
IRS Announces Qualified Disaster Treatment of Payments to Victims of Hurricane Sandy
IR-2012-84, Nov. 2, 2012 Washington ― The Internal Revenue Service today alerted employers and other taxpayers that because Hurricane Sandy is designated as a qualified disaster for federal tax purposes, qualified disaster relief payments made to individuals by their employer or any person can be excluded from those individuals’ taxable income. Qualified disaster relief payments […]
Frame your good news in the Brag Basket
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Nov 9-11, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. They’re called frame baskets. Frame upsome good news in ours.Photo (CC) by Zoe Rimmer Don’t hold back because of that word, […]