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Be Thankful for our Freedoms
Posted January 21, 2005 - Comments (2)

Gov. Bredesen No Fan of Small Business
Posted January 19, 2005 - Comments (0)

Major Tax Reform Not Likely
Posted January 19, 2005 - Comments (0)

Small Business Stats Easier to Find
Posted January 19, 2005 - Comments (0)

Identity Theft Law has Impact on Small Business
Posted January 14, 2005 - Comments (0)

Ohio Looks to a Broader Approach to Supporting Entrepreneurial Economic Development
Posted January 11, 2005 - Comments (0)

New Laws Impact Small Business in 2005
Posted January 11, 2005 - Comments (0)

Minimum Wages Going Up
Posted January 5, 2005 - Comments (0)

So-called Millionaire's Tax Hurts Private Enterprises
Posted January 5, 2005 - Comments (0)

Report on Government Contracts for Small Business Shows Few Surprises
Posted January 3, 2005 - Comments (0)

Keep Government Out of Innovation
Posted December 20, 2004 - Comments (2)

Small Business Data
Posted December 16, 2004 - Comments (0)

World Bank Hosting Online Discussion
Posted December 15, 2004 - Comments (0)

The Fed Raises Rates
Posted December 15, 2004 - Comments (0)

Prospects for Tax Reform
Posted December 13, 2004 - Comments (0)

Microfinance Program Seeks to Expand its Impact
Posted December 13, 2004 - Comments (0)

Government Contracting Now Fairer for Small Business
Posted December 8, 2004 - Comments (0)

Local Take on Most Recent Rankings
Posted December 8, 2004 - Comments (0)

Rankings versus Rankings versus Rankings: How to Interpret Divergent Information
Posted December 8, 2004 - Comments (0)

Employment Up Again
Posted December 3, 2004 - Comments (0)

Landmark Study on Self-Employment Among Women, Latinos and Blacks
Posted December 3, 2004 - Comments (1)

Q3 Growth Stronger Than First Thought
Posted November 30, 2004 - Comments (0)

Pennsylvania Could be Next State to Enact Regulation Reform for Small Business
Posted November 29, 2004 - Comments (0)

Small Business Has Strong Q3 in 2004
Posted November 22, 2004 - Comments (0)

Rural Entrepreneurship
Posted November 22, 2004 - Comments (0)

Study on Entrepreneur's Attitudes Shows Post-election Optimism
Posted November 16, 2004 - Comments (0)

State of Entrepreneurship in America
Posted November 11, 2004 - Comments (3)

Gore Becoming an Entrepreneur?
Posted November 9, 2004 - Comments (1)

Going Global Tough for Small Businesses
Posted November 9, 2004 - Comments (1)

IRS is Stepping Up Audits of Medium-sized Firms
Posted November 9, 2004 - Comments (1)

Bush Agenda in Second Term
Posted November 8, 2004 - Comments (0)

Federal Reserve Report on Entrepreneurship
Posted November 3, 2004 - Comments (1)

Stock Market Predictors
Posted November 2, 2004 - Comments (0)

Does Your Vote Really Matter?
Posted November 1, 2004 - Comments (1)

Economy Grows 3.7% in Q3 2004
Posted October 29, 2004 - Comments (0)

Is Socialism Winning the Race?? Not So Fast!!
Posted October 26, 2004 - Comments (0)

Entrepreneur Gets Out the Vote with his Employees
Posted October 25, 2004 - Comments (0)

California Small Business Climate: From Worst to....
Posted October 20, 2004 - Comments (1)

Two Weeks
Posted October 19, 2004 - Comments (2)

Digging Deeper into the Rankings
Posted October 14, 2004 - Comments (1)

Small Businesses Still Optimistic
Posted October 14, 2004 - Comments (0)

...But it is So COLD!!!
Posted October 13, 2004 - Comments (4)

Entrepreneurship in Iraq
Posted October 12, 2004 - Comments (2)

So Why Do We Do This???
Posted October 11, 2004 - Comments (1)

SBA Loan Program is Changing
Posted October 8, 2004 - Comments (0)

IPO Activity Strong in Q3 of 2004
Posted October 6, 2004 - Comments (0)

Targeted Tax Cuts are a Slippery Slope
Posted October 5, 2004 - Comments (0)

Small Business Indices Differ, But the Devil is in the Detail
Posted October 4, 2004 - Comments (0)

"Archaic Laws" May Not Be All Bad
Posted October 1, 2004 - Comments (4)

One Small Step for Entrepreneurs....
Posted September 30, 2004 - Comments (0)

Oh Great, Now I Have to Deal with SPIT, Too!!
Posted September 30, 2004 - Comments (0)

Q2 Shows Stronger Growth Than Originally Reported
Posted September 29, 2004 - Comments (0)

More Evidence of Red Tape Slowing the Entrepreneurial Economic Engine World Wide
Posted September 21, 2004 - Comments (0)

Can We Ever Really Get Government Out of Way of Entrepreneurial Development?
Posted September 20, 2004 - Comments (3)

Non-Farm Employment up in 47 States
Posted September 17, 2004 - Comments (1)

Important Step in Assuring Regulations Fair to Small Business
Posted September 16, 2004 - Comments (0)

Job Growth Back on Track
Posted September 15, 2004 - Comments (0)

Service and Information Sectors Show Major Growth in Q2
Posted September 15, 2004 - Comments (0)

Watch What They Do; Don't Listen to What They Lobby For
Posted September 14, 2004 - Comments (9)

One Contrary Entrepreneur Keeps Jobs in US
Posted September 14, 2004 - Comments (2)

Report Issued on Household Debt
Posted September 10, 2004 - Comments (1)

Incentives for Equity Investment are not the Answer
Posted September 9, 2004 - Comments (0)

Strong Q2 for Small Businesses
Posted September 7, 2004 - Comments (0)

Positive Labor Stats on this Labor Day
Posted September 6, 2004 - Comments (1)

Even Silicon Valley is Feeling Optimistic
Posted September 2, 2004 - Comments (1)

Educating Entrepreneurs the European Way Just Creates More Governmental Barriers
Posted August 31, 2004 - Comments (7)

Corporate Power Squashes Free Enterprise
Posted August 30, 2004 - Comments (2)

Strong Growth in Consumer Spending and Business Investment
Posted August 27, 2004 - Comments (0)

More Evidence of What's On Entrepreneurs' Minds
Posted August 27, 2004 - Comments (0)

Which Candidate is Best for Entrepreneurs?
Posted August 26, 2004 -

Entrepreneur Confidence Surges
Posted August 23, 2004 - Comments (0)

Defense Contracts Not Just for Halliburton
Posted August 23, 2004 - Comments (0)

July State Level Job Summary
Posted August 23, 2004 -

Tax Cut Myths Debunked by CBO
Posted August 13, 2004 -

Entrepreneurship as an Alternative to Outsourcing?
Posted August 13, 2004 - Comments (0)

Economic Report Examines "Soft Patch"
Posted August 12, 2004 -

Report on the Future of Entrepreneurship
Posted August 11, 2004 - Comments (0)

Fed Increases Interest Rates
Posted August 10, 2004 - Comments (0)

Private Sector Addresses Internet Access for the Poor
Posted August 10, 2004 - Comments (0)

Jobs, Jobs, and More Jobs
Posted August 9, 2004 -

Minority Entrepreneurship Program Finally Gets Some Press
Posted August 9, 2004 - Comments (0)

Employment in July
Posted August 6, 2004 -

Economic Summary for the Week
Posted August 5, 2004 -

Entrepreneurial Economic Development in Rural North Carolina
Posted August 4, 2004 - Comments (0)

Entrepreneurship Reports from Around the World
Posted August 4, 2004 - Comments (0)

Minority Entrepreneurship Initiative
Posted August 3, 2004 - Comments (1)

Data on the American Entrepreneurial Economy
Posted July 27, 2004 - Comments (2)

Small Town Sends Library to the Private Sector
Posted July 26, 2004 - Comments (1)

Are New Jobs Really As Bad As "They" All Say They Are?
Posted July 22, 2004 -

Would You Like Fries With That Throat Culture?
Posted July 21, 2004 - Comments (2)

State-by-State Employment Data
Posted July 20, 2004 -

What Have We Done Right?
Posted July 19, 2004 - Comments (8)

Politicians Don't Create Jobs...Businesses Do
Posted July 12, 2004 - Comments (3)

Productivity Continues to Improve; But Don't Give credit to Washington
Posted July 8, 2004 - Comments (6)

Changing Tax Policy Could Spell Economic Disaster
Posted July 1, 2004 - Comments (2)

Economic Foot Soldiers
Posted June 29, 2004 - Comments (0)

Entrepreneurship and Global Economic Development: The Missing Piece
Posted June 28, 2004 - Comments (2)

A Small World, Indeed
Posted June 25, 2004 - Comments (0)

Hobbs Blames Bush for increased Charitable Giving
Posted June 23, 2004 - Comments (1)

Even Europe is Experiencing Entrepreneurial Economic Growth
Posted June 16, 2004 - Comments (1)

Reagan and Small Business
Posted June 11, 2004 - Comments (0)

latest economic report
Posted June 9, 2004 -

Even Business Week gets it!
Posted June 7, 2004 - Comments (0)

My personal favorite Reaganism
Posted June 7, 2004 - Comments (0)

More good news on employment
Posted June 4, 2004 -

So what really happened to the surplus?
Posted June 1, 2004 - Comments (0)

Growth Stronger than First Thought
Posted May 27, 2004 -

Update on State Regulation Reform for Small Business
Posted May 26, 2004 - Comments (0)

Small Business Trends
Posted May 22, 2004 - Comments (0)

April Employment Data
Posted May 21, 2004 -

Health Care Costs Still a Concern
Posted May 21, 2004 - Comments (0)

Entrepreneurial Activity Down Under
Posted May 13, 2004 - Comments (0)

Educating Entrepreneurs
Posted May 12, 2004 - Comments (0)

More evidence of economic growth in April
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Job Growth is looking robust
Posted May 7, 2004 - Comments (0)

Important Expansion of Regulatory Flexibility Act being considered
Posted May 7, 2004 - Comments (1)

More strong economic news
Posted May 3, 2004 -

educating the new entrepreneurs
Posted May 1, 2004 - Comments (0)

First Quarter shows more signs of growth and expansion in the economy
Posted April 29, 2004 -

Why we are different
Posted April 27, 2004 - Comments (0)

Way back to the future
Posted April 24, 2004 - Comments (0)

Employment update
Posted April 23, 2004 -

The Fair Tax
Posted April 16, 2004 - Comments (0)

Taxes: a few thoughts
Posted April 15, 2004 - Comments (1)

small businesses not just being created, but creating jobs
Posted April 14, 2004 - Comments (0)

Entrepreneurship as an strategy to reduce poverty
Posted April 6, 2004 - Comments (0)

Entrepreneurs give back
Posted March 28, 2004 - Comments (0)

Governors' Entrepreneurship Agenda
Posted March 18, 2004 - Comments (0)

LLC formation data supports entrepreneurial recovery assertions
Posted March 16, 2004 - Comments (0)

Best small towns for entrepreneurs
Posted March 15, 2004 - Comments (0)

government stifles home-based business development
Posted March 3, 2004 - Comments (0)

Business Formation hits record level in Tennessee
Posted February 25, 2004 - Comments (1)

Entrepreneurial recovery update
Posted February 24, 2004 - Comments (0)

SBA needs to get on board the entrepreneurial recovery
Posted February 23, 2004 -

Yet another glimmer of hope??
Posted February 20, 2004 - Comments (0)

Are the feds finally getting it?
Posted February 20, 2004 - Comments (2)

Top 10 Reasons To Love Small Business
Posted February 13, 2004 - Comments (1)

More evidence of the entrepreneurial recovery
Posted February 10, 2004 - Comments (1)

Best practices for small town entrepreneurial development
Posted January 22, 2004 -

International Agenda for Entrepreneurial Economic Development
Posted January 21, 2004 - Comments (0)

This is no jobless recovery
Posted January 20, 2004 - Comments (0)

No good deed goes unpunished...
Posted January 14, 2004 -

Democrats for Entrepreneurship????
Posted January 13, 2004 - Comments (0)

Entrepreneurial Educators being stifled in Tennessee
Posted January 12, 2004 - Comments (0)

if you teach a man to fish...
Posted January 7, 2004 -

Twenty Three Years is Long Enough!
Posted December 30, 2003 -

Glass Half Full?? (Rerun)
Posted December 22, 2003 - Comments (0)

Health care issue improves for entrepreneurs, but...
Posted December 20, 2003 - Comments (1)

More good economic news
Posted December 18, 2003 - Comments (0)

The U.N. and Entrepreneurship
Posted December 18, 2003 - Comments (0)

Women Entrepreneurs shaping public debate
Posted December 18, 2003 - Comments (0)

African American Entrepreneurs: data supports entrepreneurial recovery breadth
Posted December 11, 2003 - Comments (1)

More support that our economy is in transformation
Posted December 8, 2003 - Comments (0)

Employment is up, but under reported...again
Posted December 5, 2003 - Comments (2)

The Glass half full??
Posted December 3, 2003 - Comments (5)

FedEx Survey on Entrepreneurship
Posted December 3, 2003 - Comments (0)

Economic Recovery: The little guys are leading the way!
Posted December 2, 2003 - Comments (0)

More good economic reports
Posted December 1, 2003 - Comments (0)

More Signs of Economic Improvement
Posted November 18, 2003 - Comments (2)

Entrepreneurship and Rural Economic Development
Posted November 8, 2003 - Comments (0)

Beware of the Nose of the Camel
Posted October 27, 2003 - Comments (1)

Death Tax Issue Needs Attention Now
Posted October 23, 2003 - Comments (2)

Support for Growing Companies
Posted October 3, 2003 - Comments (3)

Credit Patterns of Small Business
Posted October 1, 2003 - Comments (0)

SBA at 50
Posted September 26, 2003 - Comments (0)

Where to Start (or Move) your Business
Posted September 25, 2003 - Comments (2)

Small Business gets Political
Posted September 22, 2003 - Comments (0)