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  • Richmond-area jobless press hunt for work

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 11/07/2009 05:01 am

    Richmond’s unemployed workers did the best they could to shake off yesterday’s bad news that the U.S. unemployment rate hit double digits. They got back to the main task: finding ...

  • Medical marijuana shops abound in California

    WRIC 8 News | 11/06/2009 04:39 pm

    A surge in medical marijuana in California has left communities trying to regulate or ban the drug. This wine country town has welcomed a dispensary as a strong source of ...

  • Pace of job cuts falls

    Virginia Business - News | 11/05/2009 12:13 am

    For the third consecutive month, the number of job cuts announced by U.S. employers declined in October. The tally dropped 16 percent, from 66,404 in September to 55,679, according to ...

  • Doctor' practice files Chapter 11

    Richmond BizSense | 11/03/2009 11:52 am

    Not even medicine can escape the deep cuts of the recession.

  • Fido gets a helping hand

    Richmond BizSense | 11/02/2009 12:10 pm

    A veterinarian-turned-entrepreneur is opening a pet surgery center in Carytown and will provide care for pet owners who can't afford the procedures. The recession is driving up the need for ...

  • Data suggest U.S. recession is over

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 10/30/2009 05:01 am

    The nation’s bouncing economic data shot up yesterday, leading politicians, economists and Wall Street to declare the recession over, though roughly one in 10 working Americans still is out of ...

  • Top 10 Halloween Pet Peeves

    richmond.com | 10/30/2009 12:00 am

    You might not have asked, but we're telling you anyway, these are our Top 10 Halloween Pet Peeves.

  • Economic recovery will be tough, too

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 10/29/2009 05:01 am

    The recession may be over, but the recovery is just beginning—and it’s doesn’t promise to be much easier. While the Commerce Department won’t its release gross domestic product data until ...

  • A new spin for PR

    Virginia Business - News | 10/28/2009 04:00 pm

    A flight attendant serves coffee, baggage handlers move luggage and two pilots saunter through the gate. Nothing surprising about this airport scene except the employees’ attire — they appear to ...

  • Census: 'Brain gains' for high-tech cities

    WRIC 8 News | 10/28/2009 03:30 pm

    Many college graduates are passing up industrial centers and former hotspots in the Southwest, which have been hit hard by the recession, in favor of life in urban, high-tech meccas. ...

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