Business Columns
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A perfect change of paceNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - After spending nearly 30 years assisting in her family business, Kathy Godlewski felt it was time to stop and smell the coffee. Godlewski and longtime friend Terry Malon...
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Family opens Panini CafeNov 29, 2007 10:00 pm - As with many Italian families, almost everything for the Realmutos revolves around the dining room table. "Most things in the Italian culture revolve around food," said ...
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Dreaming of your own business? Read this firstNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - Charles Evans has a wife, three kids and a mortgage; a good job; and -- oh, oh -- a perhaps irresistible entrepreneurial urge "to do something on my own." That's likely ...
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Medicare is more at risk than Social SecurityNov 28, 2007 10:00 pm - Q. I am conflicted by what I have been reading about Social Security in your columns and book "The Coming Generational Storm." On the one hand, you recommend we delay ta...
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Can moving to another country offer a better retirement?Nov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - Several years ago a Dallas couple approaching retirement disappeared. Well-known on the charitable event circuit, the couple was in Dallas one day and gone the next. Pho...
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Local women invent way to protect your purseNov 26, 2007 10:00 pm - A pair of best friends created a decorative devise designed to prevent the theft of a woman's purse. Martha Curnow of Schaumburg and Vicki Ricker of Plainfield have been...
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Wire-free way to upload photosNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - No matter how perfectly shot or emotionally meaningful your digital photos may be, if they aren't uploaded to your computer or to a Web site, no one else will ever see t...
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Talking to employees can ease pain of benefit costsNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - The monthly premium for our company's health insurance coverage goes up 16 percent on January 1. Ouch. Again. But Luis Cruz says our increase "is not too bad. Twenty-...
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Ready, set, click: Cyber MondayNov 25, 2007 10:00 pm - Discard those shin guards. Remove the boxing gloves. After doing battle in the bricks-and-mortars on Black Friday, you can shop today for holiday deals on the Internet. ...
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How to protect against falling dollarNov 21, 2007 10:00 pm - Q:Due to the declining value of the U.S. dollar, I would like to look for a non-dollar investment to balance my portfolio. Would international stock and bond funds meet ...