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As part of national Small Business Week, President Barack Obama is urging Congress to pass a package of legislation aimed at helping small business.
Under the proposal, introduced in February, the $30 billion package would include tax relief for investing in small businesses, expansion of loan programs through the Small Business Administration as well as funds […]

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Should the wealthiest Washington residents pay an income tax to fund education and health care improvements in the state?
There are two opposing sides to the idea, and both sides submitted recent opinion pieces to the Puget Sound Business Journal.
Last week, Bill Gates Sr. co-authored a pro-income tax opinion, in which he proposes the state should […]

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After months of negotiation and debate, far-reaching legislation to overhaul the rules of Wall Street failed a key test vote in the Senate on Wednesday, casting a shadow over Democratic efforts to push the effort forward.
The measure aims to stop bailouts, shine a light on complex financial products and strengthen consumer protection.
The vote was […]

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Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP and Copano Energy LLC have formed a joint venture to provide gathering, transportation and processing services to natural gas producers in the Eagle Ford Shale resource play in South Texas.
The 50-50 joint venture, named Eagle Ford Gathering LLC, was first announced by the two companies last November.
Citing a “high level […]

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The foundation arm of Ohio State University’s Wexner Center for the Arts has added a Cardinal Health Inc. communications executive to its boardroom.
The Wexner Center Foundation this week appointed to its board Shelley Bird, executive vice president of public affairs at Dublin-based Cardinal (NYSE:CAH). At the pharmaceutical and health-care products distributor, she’s in charge of […]

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Despite growing unease in the financial markets, the American economy is gathering steam, adding an unexpectedly large number of jobs last month.
The Labor Department’s monthly snapshot of the job market, released on Friday, showed that employers added 290,000 jobs in April, the largest gain in four years, and that they did so […]

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Car shoppers took a wait-and-see approach in April, easing up on purchases as the lure of big incentives faded, with the hope that summer will bring a new flurry of deals.
The industry stayed on the road to recovery in April after last year’s dismal numbers, with most major automakers seeing double-digit sales […]

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Edgewood Partners Insurance Center, better known as EPIC, said Thursday it’s acquired Jeffrey Stephens Insurance Services, a San Rafael-based retail insurance brokerage.
Financial terms were not disclosed, nor was the exact size of the Marin brokerage.
EPIC said that founder/principal Jeffrey Stephens and his team will move to EPIC’s downtown San Francisco office, which it said now […]

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