Business Columns
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Jim Kendall: Is an ESOP in your future?Jul 28, 2019 1:00 am - Maybe it's the people I hang with, but I don't pick up a lot of conversation about ESOPs. Yet Employee Stock Ownership Plans apparently can be an extremely effective too...
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Feder: Susy Schultz named executive director of broadcast museumJul 26, 2019 1:00 am - Susy Schultz, the esteemed Chicago journalist, educator, writer and strategist, has been hired as executive director of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, Robert Fe...
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Feder: Schakowsky joins protest over 'Worldview' cancellation at WBEZJul 25, 2019 1:00 am - U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky has added her voice to protests over the cancellation of "Worldview," the long-running international affairs talk show airing at noon Monday thr...
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Feder: WGN reporter 'furious' over image of noose on gas tank coverJul 24, 2019 1:00 am - The depiction of a noose over an automobile's gas tank cover prompted a reporter for Tribune Broadcasting WGN-Channel 9 to say it made her “sick to my stomach,” Robert F...
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Feder: Walter Flakus calls it a night at 101 WKQXJul 23, 2019 1:00 am - Walter Flakus, assistant program director, music director and on-air host at WKQX 101.1-FM, is leaving the Cumulus Media alternative rock station to join KNDD in Seattle...
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Feder: CBS 2 goes missing from DirecTV, AT&T U-verseJul 22, 2019 1:00 am - Just when you thought WBBM-Channel 2's ratings couldn't go any lower, the CBS-owned station can't even be seen in thousands of Chicago area homes, Robert Feder writes. ...
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'Smelly' co-workers give their side of storyJul 21, 2019 6:00 am - In last week's column about dealing with a co-worker's personal odor, I asked for comments from readers who have been on the receiving end of such complaints. Reader 1: ...
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Jim Kendall: Selling can be made easierJul 21, 2019 1:00 am - Some entrepreneurs I know can sell almost anything to almost anybody, but most of us are more likely to be uncomfortable than comfortable when we have to sell. And, when...
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Neither heat, rain, cold nor drought can stop local sweet corn cropJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - In this dickens of a summer, the worst of times has given us a tale of too much sour weather for sweet corn at Wiltse's Farm Produce in Maple Park: Too wet. Too cold. To...
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Entrepreneur finds niche in selling refurbished Apple itemsJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - Scott Pauga - like many young adults starting their careers - left college deep in debt, but he was determined to find a way out. As a young entrepreneur, he started out...