Business Columns
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Workplace advice: First job, lasting lessonAug 23, 2015 7:33 am - Reader: My 17-year-old daughter started a job at a national retail chain store two months ago. After working there for a couple of weeks, she asked for a weekend off to ...
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Career Coach: Any guess what presidential contender would score highest on a narcissism assessment?Aug 23, 2015 7:33 am - The year leading up to elections is exciting for so many reasons. It is a chance for the public to see and hear the possible contenders, to learn what they are made of, ...
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Naperville's woman launches book project to help young girlsAug 23, 2015 6:12 am - Cindy Harris of Naperville has raised three daughters, worked with young girls over the years and has seen how peer pressure can be a problem while growing up. An aspir...
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Video, podcasts create attention for businessesAug 23, 2015 5:12 am - Having trouble getting your message heard through all the noise, especially on the web? Assuming you've targeted the right audience, there are ways to be noticed. "There...
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Investment hunches seldom end wellAug 23, 2015 5:00 am - Q: I am well diversified with an IRA and investment portfolio worth about $300,000. Home and cars are paid for. No debt. Earlier this year, I found $9,000 cash sitting i...
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Cash: what's not to like?Aug 23, 2015 5:00 am - Q: As a longtime follower of the Couch Potato portfolios, and now as a retiree drawing from my savings, I have a question about management. While working, I invested reg...
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Constable: What about selling mattresses for school fundraiser?Aug 20, 2015 5:30 am - When your daughter needed to raise money for her youth soccer team, you brought her boxes of chocolate to your office, where hungry co-workers coughed up the dough. When...
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Constable: School shoppers can't write off pencilsAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - Those back-to-school checklists in our brave new world require so much more than glue, lined notebooks and rulers. Little kids need to bring hypoallergenic tissues, baby...
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End your summer with free concerts at Algonquin CommonsAug 18, 2015 1:00 am - The folks at Algonquin Commons are seeing summer out in style. They're holding an end-of-summer bash the last weekend in August. The Rock and Shop Concert Weekend, which...
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The real story behind high-yield CDsAug 17, 2015 6:12 am - The offer is amazing, but there it is. Plain as day, a newspaper advertisement offers an FDIC-insured certificate of deposit. It's a big, bottom-corner ad with "5.5 perc...