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Convenience store owners are pushing lawmakers to regulate credit card transaction fees

by Katie Rogers | Sep 30, 2009 | Topics

WASHINGTON – A company perhaps known better for Slurpees than for credit card reform, 7-11 Inc. called on lawmakers Wednesday to help regulate what many business owners believe are unfair credit card transaction fees. After delivering 1.66 million petition signatures...

Small business owners experiment with new revenue sources by offering free services

by Katie Rogers | Sep 29, 2009 | Business & Tech

WASHINGTON – Dried-up credit markets continue to frustrate small business owners, but some are beginning to look to nontraditional business models – even experimenting with free goods and services – to generate revenue. Molly Gimmel, 41, was among the hundreds of...
Mad doctors and raging grannies meet in Washington to oppose current health care plan

Mad doctors and raging grannies meet in Washington to oppose current health care plan

by Katie Rogers | Sep 28, 2009 | Science + Technology

Get the Flash Player to see this player. WASHINGTON — Fighting for a single-payer health care plan, a band of Oregon-based doctors visited 26 cities in just more than three weeks. The final stop for the “Mad as Hell Doctors” was on Wednesday. A group...
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