It looks like the Republicans and Democrats can reach across the aisle.

Some of the time.

On Saturday, a White House Official told the Associated Press that it plans to repeal the 1989 cell phone tax. In fact, the promise of this repeal is included in President Barack Obama’s new budget and spending plan for 2011.   

If you’re like the rest of America, you’re probably scratching your head right now. Cell phone tax?

Perhaps a discussion on “taxable fringe benefits” is mandated before we go any further.  A taxable fringe benefit is considered pay, even if it’s not monetary. The use of a company-owned Blackberry, for example, is a taxable fringe benefit. The employe

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When it comes to getting a logo designed, you have a lot of choices. Should you hire someone you know personally? Someone another company recommended? Or should you try a site where you can offer a logo “contest” and pay the winner for a logo?

I’ve used several different options to get logos throughout the years:

1. I’ve designed a logo myself.
2. I’ve hired a designer I knew personally.
3. I’ve hired a logo design company.
4. And, most recently, I’ve outsourced logo creation through both 99designs and Design Outpost.

In this post, I will run through each of the above four options in detail, and suggest the best course of action for getting you a great logo design at a low price–based on my own experience.

Option #1: Design It Yourself

Doing logo design yourself is cheapest, but good logo design is difficult, and your result will usually be sub-par.

You can

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Join the Wedding Industry as a Part-Time Wedding Planner

The wedding industry is booming. According to US Census statistics, there are over 2.2 million marriages each year. Although the current economic climate has placed a crunch on most wedding budgets, brides and grooms still need experienced and knowledgeable experts who can help plan and coordinate wedding activities.

Skills Required: Event planning and organizing skills, wedding vendor networking, budgeting, diplomacy.

Most wedding planners simply go into business because they themselves enjoyed planning their own wedding, or a friend or relative’s wedding. A

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About 200 tonnes of maize is rotting in the Hola Irrigation Scheme after the National Cereals and Produce Board failed to buy it.

More than 650 farmers in the scheme are now watching helplessly as their efforts go to waste.

Millions of shillings were spent to revive the scheme under the National Economic Stimulus Programme late last year.

President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga were the chief guests in Hola during the launching of the project.

Farmers said at the weekend they could not believe that it was the same government that was frustrating them just three months after urging them to grow the food crop to alleviate hunger in the country.

Mr Said Mugawa of the Hola Farmers Cooperative Society said: “What are we supposed to do? H

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The source predicts that businesses that offer online social media consulting and online content production will thrive this year. According to reports from eMarketer, small businesses will spend more than $2 billion on building their social media presence this year. Many will need help developing their social network sites, and entrepreneurs only need a computer to offer this service.

Another inexpensive startup that might generate big funds is specialty food services. The source says consumers are more health conscious today than ever before and the demand for specialty foods has increased.

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