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Posts Tagged Small Business

Bennet celebrates Dem-backed small business legislation

By | 10.22.10 | 8:21 am

DENVER– At InterTech‘s spanking clean plastic molding factory in an industrial park near the airport here, Sen. Michael Bennet and Intertech President Noel Ginsburg celebrated the effects of small business legislation supported by Congressional Democrats and signed into law by the President at the end of September.

Recovery planners fail to harness small business power

By | 04.20.10 | 8:43 am

Bloomingdale is gentrifying. Ten years ago, the pretty neighborhood in central Washington, D.C., with the brightly painted Victorian townhouses and wide tree-lined streets was plagued by drugs, robberies and gang violence. Today those problems are greatly reduced, thanks in part to the efforts of the neighborhood’s tight-knit community of black families and young professionals. In the past five years, residents cleaned up the streets, developed two new parks and a small urban farm and watched their home values rise.

Bennet on health reform offers calm and steady in a storm of crazy

By | 10.01.09 | 12:00 pm

Only Sen. Michael Bennet can deliver a full-contact well-supported muscular line on health care like “The status quo is eating people alive all across this country” in an impressively no-frills monotone. In the age of cable news and shouted joint-session…

Musgrave Holds Congressional Hearing; Local Media Starry-Eyed

By | 08.11.06 | 5:09 pm

Rep. Marilyn Musgrave held a hearing in Loveland yesterday to take public comment on health care reform.