Retailers Push for Online Sales Tax

Source: My Fox Memphis

(Dow Jones) - Brick-and-mortar retailers, facing tough competition from internet merchants like Amazon.com, are launching a new effort to persuade a Congress full of tax-averse Republicans to authorize states to collect sales taxes ...
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Dollar bill lobby disappears - Frank-a-palooza for the DCCC - FEC sites eight committees for filing failures - Amazon drops ALEC

Source: The Politico

By Dave Levinthal and Anna Palmer With Abby Phillip PI SCOOP … DOLLAR BILL LOBBY DISAPPEARS: For a month in March, the pro-dollar-bill advocacy group Americans for George plastered D.C.’s Metro Center station with mass ...
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Fun and Frugal Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Pets ~ Show Your Furry Valentine Some Love!

Source: Mommy Living the Life of Riley

Dog and cat owners receive the rarest form of affection -- unconditional love that is more worthy of Cupid's arrow than any well-matched couple. No wonder pet lovers go hog wild over gifts for their four-legged friends duri ...
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Outdoor retailer Patagonia puts environment ahead of sales growth

Source: Los Angeles Times

High-end outdoor clothier and gear maker Patagonia Inc. is out to prove that a company can generate strong sales while being nearly fanatical about environmental concerns. The Ventura company was the first major clothier to make fleec ...
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What Student Debt Crisis? Survey Says We’ll Spend $5 Billion on Graduation Gifts

Source: Time Magazine

A new survey shows that Americans will collectively spend more than $4.7 billion on gifts for students graduating college or high school this year. For some perspective, our country’s collective student loa ...
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Carrboro Family Dollar decision delayed again

Source: The News & Observer

CARRBORO -- Family Dollar opponents say the retail store is being shoehorned into a longtime neighborhood with no regard or respect for what the community wants or needs. “We want the character of our community preserved ...
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Today's Influence Ads: A Baseball-Themed Push for a Highway Bill

Source: National Journal

The Transportation Construction Coalition - a group of trade associations and labor unions - has a new baseball-themed ad out today calling on Congress to pass a surface transportation bill that it says will help the economy and create jobs, accordi ...
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Think Again: The Conservative War on Knowledge

Source: Center For American Progress

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) gestures during a speech at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. The United States finds itself in an odd political predicament. One of its two major political parties is increasingly dominated by a factio ...
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CKE Restaurants Files Brief in Support of Lawsuit Fighting Inflated Credit and Debit Card Swipe Fees

Source: Business Wire

CARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CKE Restaurants, Inc., parent company of Carl’s Jr.® and Hardee’s® brands, today announced it has joined with other quick-serve restaurant and convenience store chains in filli ...
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