Businesses find a few rays of hope – Los Angeles Times
In the small town of Alpine, just east of San Diego, residents converged like moths on the neon lights of Viejas Casino, one of the only businesses not rendered pitch black by Thursday’s power outage. Rowina Johnson, a cashier working the …

Downtown Businesses Still Pumping Out Water – WBNG-TV
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Now that people are being allowed to walk across the Court Street Bridge and into downtown Binghamton, you would think that businesses there could start up again. Action News spoke with businesses downtown to see …

Businesses fear the worst – Scranton Times-Tribune
It was a similar scene throughout downtown Wilkes-Barre at businesses, which coped with closures, lost revenue and panic about what lies ahead. “We will probably lose everything,” said Alex Patel, an employee at Matus News Stand on Public Square as he …

Some Baltimore businesses not buying Obama jobs plan – The Business Journal
One of the main tenets of Obama s plan is providing a $4,000 tax credit to businesses that hire workers who have been unemployed for at least six months. Wineholt said the state already had a plan in place which gives a $5,000 tax credit to …

Local Businesses on President Obama’s Tax Cut Proposal – KAAL-TV
(ABC 6 NEWS) — President Obama’s speech Thursday proposed several tax incentives for small businesses, and local business owners say it could be a good thing. “I’m optimistic, because I have always been optimistic,” Jim Gander, owner Superior …

Obama Seeks New Payroll Tax Cuts for Small Businesses, Memo Says – BusinessWeek
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will propose new payroll tax relief for employers while limiting the benefit to small businesses, according to an administration document obtained by Bloomberg News. In a speech to Congress tonight …