Business Columns
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Work Advice: Questioning pay docked for 'undertime'Mar 15, 2015 7:34 am - Reader: My son, a salaried employee, works well beyond eight hours in a shift. He sometimes gets early-morning calls and frequently stays late, works from home in his of...
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New TurboAppeal.com seeks to help homeowners streamline their property tax appealsMar 12, 2015 1:00 am - When homeowners receive their property tax notices, they have a window of time to file an appeal to reduce those taxes. That involves filling out a form for free at thei...
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Griffin: Who benefits from business district tax?Mar 11, 2015 5:30 am - When Bill Fagi looks across the parking lot at Stratford Square Mall in Bloomingdale, he sees where some of his profits go. Customers at Fagi's Furniture Connections in ...
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How an Antioch mom became an HGTV starMar 09, 2015 11:00 pm - Tiffany Brooks' life might have been totally different had it not been for a three-word email from her brother. The words were: "Here's your chance." The email also con...
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NL Chemical CEO receives China's highest honorMar 09, 2015 1:00 am - When Norman N. Li left mainland China to go to Taiwan after World War II, he didn't think he would one day receive China's highest honor for scientists. But he did - mor...
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Projects to complete while hoping for springMar 09, 2015 1:00 am - There are some business tasks to tackle while you're waiting for that first daffodil: • Organize your email lists. Email messages, especially those appropriately underst...
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Career Coach: Why do bosses fail? Sometimes they are too cautiousMar 08, 2015 7:37 am - Have you ever prepared a report for a manager about a future opportunity for your firm, and waited and waited and waited, hoping it would eventually be implemented? And ...
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Work Advice: More workers wondering, 'Is this legal?'Mar 08, 2015 7:35 am - After my last "Is this legal?" column, I received that same question from other workers forced to put in grueling hours, paid and unpaid. According to Declan Leonard, ma...
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Like oil, different fluids can also get dirtyMar 07, 2015 11:00 pm - After my last column on transmission fluid, one of our readers thought it would be good if I wrote about some of the other fluids that need to be changed on a car. So to...
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UnitedHealthcare debuts new app features so you can stay mobileMar 05, 2015 12:00 am - UnitedHealthcare's mobile app, Health4Me, has introduced new features that allow users to pay bills securely, manage their health care claims, and even compare prices of...