Ever dream about starting your own business? If you own a small farm now, would like to add additional income? Beginning or experienced entrepreneurs, as well as current farmers, may be interested in an upcoming seminar on October 9th at Apple Hill Orchard in nearby Bruceville, Indiana (about 5 miles north of Vincennes). Attendees will learn about beginning a specialty food or food ingredient business in Indiana...

It could be a complete dud as an investment, or it could be an amazing buying opportunity! Investors began selling off shares of National City Bank (NCC), a stock that traded for as high as $27.21 in October 2007, predicting it would be the next bank to fail. ...

It's funny how high-ranking politicians and government officials just conceded this week that we're in a financial mess nationwide. Rewind to the previous week, and they were still telling the American people that everything was fine and our economy was "sound"...

I can't stand the thought of having to pay for radio on Sirius or XM, but I was almost to that point. Then I discovered a new radio station. If you share my frustration with the other "local" stations, and you're tired of having tweens pick the same 10 songs to be played over-and-over again (100.7 MIX-FM), or you're just sick of the non-stop commercials (HI-99), take a listen to a world-class rock station: 92.3 WTTS...

Recently, the Washington Post provided a chart of how the two major contenders for the U.S. Presidential election would stack up against each other with their respective tax plans, as shown here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/06/09/ST2008060900950.html...

I found this quite interesting in the news today, as times are tough even for criminals: Several newspapers around the country are including an Associated Press story about a 18-year-old drug dealer in Portage, Indiana, who allegedly has raised his price for cocaine due to the additional costs of delivery to his clientele. ...

A financial powerhouse that was founded in 1850 became the latest firm to fall in the midst of the subprime mortgage crisis. Lehman Brothers, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier today, demonstrates once again that "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." Along with Lehman, in related banking and financial news today, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America for $50 billion in BOA stock, while AIG is reportedly asking the Fed for $40 billion in emergency funding a la Bear Stearns earlier this year.. ...

Lawmakers in Indiana are discussing lowering the sales tax rate and eliminating property taxes. Here's the catch though: They would apply sales tax to services too. By doing so, more tax money could be created, which could actually lower the sales tax rate overall and supplement enough additional monies to eliminate property taxes. So, you could be paying sales tax on everything from your tax preparation invoice to attorney's consultation to doctor's bill for a minor surgery...

Once again, the local Knights of Columbus is sponsoring their annual Community Fundraising Jonah Fish Fry on Friday, September 19, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at their clubhouse located across from St. Peter Church at 4th & "E" Streets NE in Linton...