Sep 30

The following are items of interest about Jefferson City area businesses and business people.

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Andrew Beshuk joined the staff at Wallstreet Group as director of operations. He will oversee the service and sales operations. Beshuk has experience in pension plan design and administration and also does personal financial counseling with individuals.

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Sep 30

Cash-flow problems at the family business

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Q. I have recently purchased a family business from my uncle and father. The business is experiencing some cash-flow problems and I might not be able to sustain the agreed-upon note payments to them. How can I address this issue?

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Sep 29

Pak biz community welcomes SC ruling on Musharraf

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Pakistan’s business community has welcomed the Supreme Courts ruling allowing President Pervez Musharraf to seek a second term in uniform, and urged the Opposition parties and lawyers to respect the judgement. Contrary to the intense divisive debate among other segments of the Pakistani society, the business community has given a positive response to the apex courts verdict hoping it would …

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Sep 29

The Daily American’s Spotlight on Business: Southern Illinois Bank

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The Daily American staff will celebrate the American entrepreneurial spirit by regularly seeking to highlight one West Frankfort establishment in our ‘Spotlight on Business’ profile.

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Sep 28

Problems With Business Journalism

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The majority of Americans are wage earners. They neither have their own businesses nor help run businesses. Their wages have been more or less stagnant for two decades while the cost of living has risen relentlessly. Now their jobs are being exported and their unions broken, and yet the business section of their newspaper doesn’t interest them as much as, say, sports or obituaries.

Something is wrong with this picture, something verging on hoax. We need to reexamine the history and function of business news, whether it’s the business section of a newspaper or the business segment of a telecast or even publications given over wholly to business.

As newspapers grew from muckraking and often scurrilous weeklies to staid metropolitan and regional dailies in the 19th Century it was thought that their readers would be primarily affluent and literate upper-class citizens, decision-makers. But as the country expanded westward a middle class was created, and this newly affluent and educated middle class was interested in money matters. But it was assumed, wrongly that money matters would never rate high on reader interest indices. As we discussed in the last segment of this series, that’s not true. Disasters and money rank Number One and Number Two among reader preferences. Read more

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Sep 28

LATEST: Lawyers in Scotland given reform warning

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Changes to the legal profession in Scotland will not “blindly” follow English changes, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill told lawyers today. But he told delegates at a Law Society conference in Edinburgh, that it must embrace fresh business thinking.

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Sep 28

Legal review ‘won’t mimic England’

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A shake-up of the legal profession will not see Scotland “blindly” follow English changes, justice secretary Kenny MacAskill has told lawyers. But he told delegates at a Law Society conference in Edinburgh, that it must embrace fresh business thinking.

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Sep 28

Women In Business

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Women are increasingly traveling by themselves for business or pleasure. And while their reasons for traveling are similar to their male counterparts, women traveling alone have very different concerns.

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Sep 27

FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, FREESE AND NICHOLS, DONALD HAACK DIAMONDS RECEIVE 2007 AMERCIAN BUSINESS ETHICS AWARDS

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The Foundation for Financial Service Professionals this week announced the recipients of the 2007 American Business Ethics Awards (ABEA). The recipients will be honored at a dinner on September 26th at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure in advance of the Financial Service Forum being held here by the Society of Financial Service Professionals….

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Sep 27

Drop election spending bill – Law Society

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The New Zealand Law Society says the Government’s new election spending legislation cannot be “patched up” and should be canned.

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