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“The morning started out as any other morning,” said Brian Garrison, owner of Garrison’s Home and Garrison’s Sleeper in Southern Oregon. Within a few hours, two of Garrison’s four stores would burn to the ground in a massive fire that swept through the Rogue Valley on September 9. Fortunately, Garrison and his business are doing …
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In the aftermath of two huge hurricanes and over 100 immense wildfires in the Western US, as a small business advocate, I can no longer be silent on an issue threatening small business owners—climate change. Climate change is real. It’s disastrous. It’s getting worse. And it’s a danger to small businesses, including yours. Although I was …
Years ago, a tenured university professor told me his secret: He was desperate to quit and start his own business. He had enough in savings but didn’t dare leave his job. As a man in his mid-50s, he couldn’t get health insurance on his own. The Affordable Care Act, which some call Obamacare, was supposed …
