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• Small Business Saturday 2021: What is it and when is the shopping event? Whether you’re shopping online or hitting the high street, throw your support towards small businesses (Picture: Getty)From Black Friday to Cyber Monday and then straight into the Christmas shopping season, the idea of even more shopping might not be appealing to everyone. However, Small Business Saturday is a shopping event with a difference. Small Business Saturday 2021 marks the ninth year of the event in the UK, and the campaign has grown significantly each year. In 2020, £1.1 billion was…
• Shop Local: Small Business Saturday offers big boon for local stores It’s a busy weekend for businesses everywhere. On Small Business Saturday, local businesses in San Marco and across the area encourage patrons to shop mall. According to the 2020 Small Business Development Centers, there are more than 2.5 million small businesses in Florida employing 3.4 million people across the state. They are great places for holiday shopping as well. At the Spice and Tea Exchange in San Marco, the employees make custom blends and fine teas. It’s a labor of…
• Chicago neighborhoods boost local shops on Small Business Saturday: ‘You see the good come out’ Sharnele Amos, owner of Soilful Pots, talks to a customer during a holiday pop-up market in Bronzeville on Small Business Saturday. | Pat Nabong/Sun-TimesAfter another tough year for businesses due to the pandemic, small entrepreneurs put out all the stops as the holiday shopping season kicks into overdrive. Neighborhood groups across the city put the spotlight on small businesses Saturday, enticing shoppers with deals, live music, refreshments and more after another brutal year for retail due to COVID-19. “The small…
• China’s rising cost of business is prompting some companies to leave A new data protection law is changing the calculus for doing business in China, with foreign and domestic firms scrambling to comply, and some companies including LinkedIn and Yahoo choosing to leave. China’s personal information protection law, implemented this month, is the latest factor adding to a challenging political environment for businesses operating in the country and altering the cost-benefit analysis. While the untapped business potential of 1.4 billion consumers was once an irresistible draw, this is increasingly changing. James Zimmerman,…
• Bay Area News Group boys high school athlete of the week: Guardian Harper, Benicia football Benicia football player Guardian Harper is the Bay Area News Group’s boys high school athlete of the week for Nov. 15-21 after receiving 44.36% of the vote by the 5 p.m. deadline Wednesday. De La Salle football player Charles Greer (38.52%) finished second and Campolindo football player Dashiell Weaver took third. Congratulations to all the candidates for this week’s recognition. Harper made the play of the night to lead Benicia into Friday’s North Coast Section Division III championship game at…
• VOTE: Southern California Girls Athlete of the Week, November 26 Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is then entered into the overall Southern California Athlete of the Week vote. Click on the newspaper links below the athlete’s name to read about their…
• Breaking down the Bears’ bizarre week Matt Nagy yells during the Lions game last month. | Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty ImagesThe Sun-Times’ Patrick Finley analyzes the Bears’ eventful week: The Sun-Times’ Patrick Finley breaks down the Bears’ chaotic week: The Bears’ past week has been… Of their own making — both because the team lost to Ravens backup quarterback Tyler Huntley and because executives did not shoot down the Patch.com report that Matt Nagy would be fired quickly enough to avoid distraction. Who, or what, is…
• Pac-12 power ratings: Utah tightens its hold on No. 1, with Oregon and WSU next in line Power ratings based entirely on the scoreboard, except when they aren’t. (All times Pacific.) 1. Utah (9-3/8-1)Last week: 1Result: Beat Colorado 28-13Next up: vs. Oregon (Friday, 5 p.m., ABC)Line: Utah -3Comment: In addition to being healthier overall than Oregon, the Utes have the benefit of a full week to prepare after playing their regular-season finale on Friday. Decisive advantage? No. Significant advantage? Yes, particularly given Utah’s physical style. 2. Oregon (10-2/7-2)Last week: 2Result: Beat Oregon State 38-29Next up: vs. Utah…
• Elizabeth Holmes accuses ex-lover, business partner of abuse Disgraced entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes described herself as the abused puppet of her former lover and business partner Sunny Balwani in tearful testimony Monday, part of her attempt to refute accusations that she lied about a flawed blood-testing technology she had hailed as a major breakthrough. After recounting how she met Balwani while she was still in high school, Holmes said she eventually fell under his sway after she dropped out of Stanford University in 2003 to found Theranos, a Silicon…
• Latest line: A good week for Californians, a bad week for food banks Californians New CDC data show California’s COVID-19 transmission is coming down again, with the state moving from the red high to the orange substantial level and Bay Area counties all in the yellow moderate tier.         Food banks Skyrocketing prices from inflation have left them struggling to secure enough food for the growing number of people needing help through the pandemic.           Crab lovers Commercial crab season, which traditionally starts Nov. 15, was…