Council tables home-based business regulations The Naperville Sun
One size doesn't fit all. It's an idea the Naperville City Council took to heart as they began their first debate on proposed new rules for how home-based businesses operate in the city.
Yard waste will need home The News Journal
Lately, Umesh Reddy sees red when he sets off to mow the quarter-acre of green around his Bear home.
BUSINESS: Bissell's Pharmacy may move to Balducci space Ridgefield Press
A Main Street icon apparently plans to surrender its attempt to return to its former home. Sources say Bissell’s Pharmacy is nearing a deal to move into space at the Balducci’s market, just across the parking lot from its current home. The pharmacy lost its home last year in a massive fire.
Buying a business? Better do your homework Bankrate.com
The secret to buying a successful business: Know what you're getting into before you and your money part ways. As a potential business owner, you have to separate the out-and-out scams from the genuine businesses. Then further divide the latter pile into the good and not-so-good opportunities.
Tricky business Macon Telegraph
When Troy Tarpley was thinking of what he would call his vehicle dent-repair business, he knew it had to have the word "dent" in it.
Soak! founder sells stores, retains wholesale business Richmond Times-Dispatch
Veronica Brockwell is out of the retail business. She sold her two Soak! bath and beauty boutiques to two different local owners, who are operating the stores through licensing arrangements. But Brockwell still retains her rapidly growing manufacturing and wholesale businesses.
Buying a business? Better do your homework Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance
It can be rewarding, but you should like what you're doing.
MIDDAY BUSINESS REPORT: Kansas City Star
H&R Block Inc. kicks off its annual franchise convention this morning in San Diego with the motto “Operation: Green Fury.” The weeklong event will help ready Block’s field team for the coming tax season.
Chesterton Council wavers Post-Tribune
CHESTERTON -- With voters set to decide in four weeks whether their community should become a city, a split Town Council narrowly approved giving them a third governmental option in the event they reject the idea of a mayor with sole control over department heads.
PNC to purchase Maryland bank The Philadelphia Inquirer
Pennsylvania's largest bank plans to continue its expansion east and south from its slow-growing hometown of Pittsburgh, with the high-priced purchase of the largest bank based in Maryland.