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BANKING Regions Financial has announced it has appointed two company and industry veterans to new positions within the commercial and industrial division of the business service group. Regions has also promoted two specialized industry bankers to lead the company’s health care and restaurant specialty lending groups. Mike Allen has been named commercial and industrial executive, [...]
Tennessee Veterans’ Business Association two-day expo opens Jan. 23
By Jayne Andrews Exhibits will showcase products and services, provide networking opportunities KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Veterans’ Business Association (TVBA) will kick off its 2nd Annual Business and Education Expo Jan. 23 at the Knoxville Convention Center. Set-up and a reception will take place from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. The expo portion of [...]
Volkswagen Chattanooga earns LEED platinum certification
CHATTANOOGA,Tenn. — Volkswagen’s Chattanooga manufacturing plant has received a platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) green building certification program. The facility is the first and only automotive manufacturing plant in the world to receive the platinum certification. “Because the Volkswagen Group has a longstanding, worldwide [...]
New Incorporations
ANDERSON COUNTY Treefrog Enterprises, LLC 969 Oak Ridge Turnpike Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Dennis Farr Ren’s China Inn, Inc. 1115 N. Charles Seivers Blvd. Clinton, TN 37716 Zhi Ren TN Home Repair & Remodeling Co. 220 Stephens Rd. Lake City, TN 37769 Alex Goldstein Sky Light Photography, L.P. 136 Carriage Court [...]
Small business owners applaud Alexander’s tax legislation
Business owners say sales tax collection by online retailers would level the playing field, save many businesses On November 9, small business owners across Tennessee applauded Senator Lamar Alexander’s introduction in the United States Senate of legislation that will bring e-fairness to brick-and-mortar stores across the nation. The announcement of Senate legislation follows the introduction of a [...]
Social media and protected, concerted activity
Recently, the general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued several opinions addressing issues in connection with employees’ use of Facebook. In one case, a Wal-Mart worker referred to a manager as a “puta,” a derogatory Spanish word, on Facebook after an argument over store displays, and an Illinois bartender set forth his [...]
Who is responsible for your health care?
By Richard Ralston What do politicians call it when they force you to buy health insurance (or anything else) every day, for the rest of your life? They call it “personal responsibility.” How do they get away with that? Can anyone remember a time when personal responsibility referred to what we each think that we [...]
They’re the Great Smokey Mountains not the Great Smoggy Mountains
This week the Senate voted on a proposal offered by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky to overturn a Clean Air Act rule designed to limit the blowing of power plant pollution from one state to another, a proposal that I urged my colleagues to oppose. Tennesseans admire much about our Kentucky neighbors. We admire their [...]
Our economy and getting the country working again
The following is the remarks U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann gave to the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 19, 2011, Part 2. Three: repeal ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank Act. These two policies are creating the most uncertainty for our economy as business owners are struggling to understand the new health care laws, and the [...]
Liberty on the rocks
While is it way too early to know if retailers are going to make their necessary profits this holiday season, I’m going to stick my neck out and predict they are not going to come close to what they need in order to make up for an otherwise dismal year. Sure, some retailers have done [...]
