August 22, 2008

From the round table: City must aim higher than Memphis as air travel destination

I know many people have worked very hard to restore regularly scheduled passenger airline service to Columbia Regional Airport, and they deserve our support. Mesaba Airlines brought back a handful of passenger flights to our airport just a few days ago, thanks to a $2 million federal subsidy. But to Memphis? Forget it! Sorry, but

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Niche Media Pioneers: Webmaster cultivates Hispanic readers

Tomás Custer’s Web site, hispanictips.com, has become a popular information source, drawing more than 120,000 visits every month and wide-ranging praise. Readers might expect that the creator and operator of the blog, which has banner advertisements in Spanish and English, is working in some hotspot of Hispanic culture like Miami or Los Angeles. But when

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Customer Service: The quandary of the doohickey: copyrights, trademarks and patents

When you bring a new or unique version of a product or service to the market, it’s important to not only distinguish yourself from the competition, but also protect your profitable business venture from infringement by others. Protecting your goods or services can seem like a sticky predicament with all the government and legal jargon,

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Demand for forensic accountants goes up as white-collar crimes increase, federal regulations tighten

It’s sad but true. One of the highest growth industries in the country is corporate fraud.  As a result of the high-profile white-collar scandals in the past few years, federal, state and local governmental agencies, as well as businesses, have developed numerous ways to catch the bad guys and identify areas in which fraud might

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