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Which Business Opportunities are Currently Thriving and Why?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/05/2024 - 5:00am

One of the most common questions entrepreneurial candidates ask me is which type of franchise opportunities are thriving? It’s a natural inquiry from someone looking to play it safe and find a business that operates in a high-demand marketplace. While the answer will always be subjective in nature, as market demand obviously fluctuates, there are some tried and true strategies for investigating certain franchise opportunities that consistently perform, regardless of how the economy is fairing.

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Autonomous Tech Is Coming To Farming. What Will It Mean For Crops And Workers Who Harvest Them?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/05/2024 - 4:00am

PowerPollen intern Evan Mark prepares a pollen applicator, Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, near Ames, Iowa.
(Charlie Neibergall / AP Photo)

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Jeremy Ford hates wasting water.

As a mist of rain sprinkled the fields around him in Homestead, Florida, Ford bemoaned how expensive it had been running a fossil fuel-powered irrigation system on his five-acre farm — and how bad it was for the planet.

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US Government Tries To Rein In An Out-Of-Control Subscription Economy

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 11/05/2024 - 3:00am

Google TV apps with streaming services.
(Business Wire / AP Photo)

Signing up for a subscription to a streaming service or newspaper has never been easier.

Canceling it, on the other hand, can be a cumbersome journey involving phone calls, letters or finding the option to cancel buried in a remote menu on an app.

And that’s if you remember to cancel in the first place.

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Nebraska’s Manufacturing Industry Spotlighted As Job Count Hits 20-Year High

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/29/2024 - 7:00am

Students tour the Structural Component Systems facilities in Fremont, where Gov. Jim Pillen and other officials celebrated Manufacturing Month in Nebraska. ses that offer credits for high school as well as Metropolitan Community College.
(Cindy Gonzalez / Nebraska Examiner)

FREMONT, Nebraska — Gov. Jim Pillen and other state and local officials on Wednesday spotlighted a growing Nebraska industry — manufacturing — whose job count has hit its highest point in more than 20 years.

But the stars of the event held at Structural Component Systems, a Fremont-based building supply manufacturer, were a dozen local high schoolers who are dual-enrolled in trades-focused college courses.

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Trump Justice

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/29/2024 - 6:00am

An ABC story, which should have gotten more attention than it did, reports that a proposed appointment roster entitled "Transition Planning: Legal Principals" lists Judge Aileen Cannon, the federal district judge who threw out the classified documents case against Donald Trump, as a candidate for attorney general if Trump gets elected.

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Proof That Immigrants Fuel The US Economy Is Found In The Billions They Send Back Home

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/29/2024 - 5:00am

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions of immigrants if he is elected to a second term, claiming that, among other things, foreign-born workers take jobs from others. His running mate JD Vance has echoed those anti-immigrant views.

Researchers, however, generally agree that massive deportations would hurt the U.S. economy, perhaps even triggering a recession.

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McDonald's And Boar's Head Outbreaks May Have You Worried. Experts Say The Food Supply Is Safe

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/29/2024 - 4:00am

From Boar's Head deli meat and waffles to McDonald's Quarter Pounders, this year's illness outbreaks — some deadly — and food recalls may have Americans wondering whether there are new risks in the U.S. food supply.

But experts say it's business as usual when it comes to the complicated task of keeping food safe.

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The U.S. Business Community Used To Be A Force For Immigration Reform. What Happened?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/29/2024 - 3:00am

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas (left) sits with his wife Virginia Lamp Thomas, as he is introduced at the Federalist Society in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2007.
(Charles Dharapak / AP Photo)

The U.S. Business Community Used to Be a Force for Immigration Reform. What Happened?

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Sheep Producers Send Tons Of Wool To Landfills. A Nebraska Business Aims To Change That.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/22/2024 - 7:00am

LAWRENCE – One word best defines how Megan Landes-Murphy and her husband Tom Murphy met, made career choices and launched a unique-to-Nebraska business.

Sheep.

Neither spent much time around the animals while growing up in northwest Wisconsin and the Omaha area, respectively.

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Farms To Fame: How China’s Rural Influencers Are Redefining Country Life

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Tue, 10/22/2024 - 5:00am

In the quiet backwaters of Yunnan, Dong Meihua – though her followers know her by the public alias Dianxi Xiaoge – has done something remarkable: She’s taken the pastoral simplicity of rural China and made it irresistible to millions. In her hands, a village kitchen becomes a stage, and the rhythms of farm life become a story as compelling as any novel. She is one of many rural influencers returning to their roots.

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Business News

Which Business Opportunities are Currently Thriving and Why?

Autonomous Tech Is Coming To Farming. What Will It Mean For Crops And Workers Who Harvest Them?

US Government Tries To Rein In An Out-Of-Control Subscription Economy

Nebraska’s Manufacturing Industry Spotlighted As Job Count Hits 20-Year High

Trump Justice

Proof That Immigrants Fuel The US Economy Is Found In The Billions They Send Back Home

McDonald's And Boar's Head Outbreaks May Have You Worried. Experts Say The Food Supply Is Safe

The U.S. Business Community Used To Be A Force For Immigration Reform. What Happened?

The U.S. Business Community Used to Be a Force for Immigration Reform. What Happened?

Sheep Producers Send Tons Of Wool To Landfills. A Nebraska Business Aims To Change That.

Farms To Fame: How China’s Rural Influencers Are Redefining Country Life

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