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By 2030, the sea level along many of the United States' coasts will rise at least four feet, affecting the nearly five million residents who live in homes on land below this level, according to a report published by Climate Central. New data from the report, Surging Seas , and the accompanying website, are featured in a front-page New York Times article, detailing the sea level rise that has already doubled the annual risk of coastal flooding in the country.Yup, Facebook did it to us again. This time they have added the new timeline to business pages. With it come both good and bad changes.
15 Must Know Tips to Rock Your New Facebook Timeline Business Page | Social Media Today
Advancing Advanced Manufacturing Region by Region - Up Front Blog - Brookings Institution
At last a more serious discussion of manufacturing has begun. In just the last month, strong voices have by turns questioned whether manufacturing merits special attention, contended that it does, and then begun to say which sort of manufacturing matters most. Just last week the Metropolitan Policy Program joined with the CONNECT Innovation Institute to produce a major event that contended that regardless of its diminished employment manufacturing remains a powerful engine of innovation, a driver of exports that are taming our trade deficit, and a source of good-paying jobs.Region 2000 | Building a More Entrepreneurial Region 2000
Virginia’s Region 2000 Partnership in collaboration with Central Virginia Community College presented the findings and resulting action plan of an entrepreneurship study that kicked off in Spring, 2011 on Wednesday, February 1 at Central Virginia Community College’s Merritt Hall.
21 Books Every Entrepreneur Should Read - StumbleUpon
Roger Ehrenberg: "Big or small, this book focuses the entrepreneur/manager on respecting employees, focusing on process, and insisting on the collection and analysis of data. The development of metrics to manage the business is critical for the start-up founder."Lost amid headlines about rising corporate taxes, companies threatening to leave the state and rival governors wooing others is an important fact: Illinois is a better place to do business than surrounding states. A Crain's analysis of the factors most important to a healthy business climate shows that Illinois outranks Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri and Iowa.
Illinois' business climate outshines its neighbors' | In Other News | Crain's Chicago Business
Angel Capital Education Foundation / Listing of Groups
Below is a listing of all the angel groups that we are aware of in the U.S. and Canada, as well as other resources that may be helpful to entrepreneurs, investors, policy makers, students, and entrepreneurial support organizations.The Council On State Taxation (COST) is pleased to announce the release of a new study ranking states by tax burden on new investment. The study, “Competitiveness of State and Local Business Taxes on New Investment,” is the latest contribution by Ernst & Young in conjunction with COST to the growing field of research in the state and local business tax arena. The study assesses the competitiveness of current state and local business taxes on mobile capital investment on a state-by-state basis.The rankings consider state and local statutory tax provisions and the financial characteristics of the new investments.
COST News Release: Competitiveness of State and Local Business Taxes on New Investment
Creative Class » Blog Archive » Do State Business Taxes Really Matter? - Creative Class
These days talk about taxes of any kind, unless cuts are being proposed, is the third rail of American politics.
For awhile in 2005, I carried around a white, cotton handkerchief that was worn soft from use after my father, Dabney, died suddenly and quietly at the age of 81.