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Every day, trucks move through the Inland Empire carrying food, building materials, consumer goods, equipment, medical supplies and other products that businesses and households depend on. National Truck Driver Appreciation Week, observed September 13–19, gives...
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Long before Hispanic Heritage Month filled a 31-day stretch of the calendar, the observance began as a single week proposed by a congressman from California. Representative George E. Brown, Jr. was raised in Holtville, a small farming community in the Imperial Valley...
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Somewhere right now, a business owner is walking out of a bank after being declined for a loan. The numbers were close. The customers are real, the revenue is real, the lease payment has cleared every month for six years. But the collateral was thin, or the last two...
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When Frederick E. Jordan, Sr. tried to start his engineering firm in San Francisco in 1969, he couldn’t get financing. He ran F.E. Jordan Associates part-time out of his home for its first six months, taking on whatever work he could until the business had...
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As our nation marks its 250th anniversary, Americans have an opportunity to reflect on the principles that have shaped our country for two and a half centuries. Among them is self-determination: the belief that individuals should have the freedom to shape their own...
