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Local Businesses Think U.S. Still Dangling On Fiscal Cliff

After decisions in Washington, D.C. many are asking – will the vote to avoid going over the fiscal cliff help North Texas companies? CBS 11 News spoke with one local business owner who said years of uncertainty have proven costly.

CBSDFW.COM–2013/01/02

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Opinion: Obamacare Is Bad For Small Business

As the final days of the presidential campaign of 2012 wind down, there is ongoing concern about what President Barack Obama’s law for requiring businesses to provide health care for its employees will do to small business owners.

2012/10/25

Barack Obama (Photo credit: JIM WATSON/AFP/GettyImages)

Opinion: Obama Fails To Address Black America’s Disappointments With His Presidency

Many who supported Obama in 2008 did so because they believed that he would help black Americans. The criticism four years later is that having a black president in the White House hasn’t helped African Americans at all.

2012/08/09

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Opinion: Big Cities’ People-in-Power Don’t Understand Crime And Murder

For America’s big cities: the people who are supposed to have, need to have, and claim to have all the answers simply don’t have a clue.

2012/07/11

Shuttered businesses in Detroit, MI (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Opinion: Businesses Can’t Afford The Proposed $10-Per-Hour Minimum Wage

U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. from the South Side of Chicago is introducing a $10-per-hour minimum wage across the nation. As a representative, he introduced the measure to his fellow-congressmen in the House yesterday. It […]

2012/06/08

Hopeful Entrepreneurs Enter ‘The Boardroom’

Once a month, hopeful entrepreneurs can now pitch their ideas for inventions and new businesses to North Texas investors.

2012/04/11

Customers check out the new Apple iPad 2. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Survey: DFW Small Businesses Frequently Use Tablets

One piece of equipment clearly stood out on the construction site at Capital Bar in Fort Worth Thursday. Between the concrete and the framing, was a man walking around with a tablet computer.

2012/03/16

Clashes Over Love Field Airport Concession Contracts

Eleven new gates will open up at Dallas Love Field Airport next year and council-members are being asked to sign off on the concession award system. But some vendors, who lost out in the process, say the decision-making wasn’t fair.

2012/02/21

Ramp personnel load baggage into a departing American Airlines flight on August 15, 2001. (credit: Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

AMR Bankruptcy Concerns Small Business Owners

In the wake of American Airlines’s parent company AMR filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, some small businesses are worried about whether the move will affect their bottom lines.

2011/11/30

Local Shops Get Their Turn On Small Business Saturday

On Saturday, small businesses found their answer to the madness of holiday shopping: The second-annual Small Business Saturday.

2011/11/26

‘Small Business Saturday’ Looks To Boost Mom & Pop Shops

If Black Friday wasn’t enough for you, today is Small Business Saturday, a day dedicated to supporting small businesses on one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.

2011/11/26