Vice President-elect Kamala Harris posted a video on Twitter Tuesday thanking her supporters and promising that she and President-elect Joe Biden would confront the “four existential threats” facing the nation — coronavirus, the economic downturn caused by the pandemic, racial injustice and climate change. The video starts with a woman from Atlanta asking Harris: “I […]

The Victorian government’s multi-billion-dollar support package to restart the state’s economy is facing backlash. Small-business advocates say it does little to dispel the lack of confidence that strict restrictions have brought, with many company owners uncertain the cautious roadmap will ever enable them to restart operating. Announced on Sept. 13 and 14 the $3 billion business […]

Gov. Ned Lamont (D) said Thursday he would like to “avoid” having people from out of state travel into Connecticut to shop and dine when he begins his reopening plan on May 20. The Hartford Courant asked Lamont “what’s to stop people” from New York and other nearby states from entering Connecticut to eat or […]

Restaurant owner Adam Skelly was arrested by Toronto police Thursday after defying the city’s Wuhan coronavirus lockdown order for several days by opening his barbeque restaurant for indoor dining. Skelly was arrested shortly before 12:30 p.m. on Thursday by police who had blockaded the entrance to his restaurant Adamson Barbecue, located in the Toronto district […]

Former Nevada State GOP chairman Amy Tarkanian has raised over $220,000 for Erica Kious, the owner of the salon Nancy Pelosi attended Monday. “Erica Kious, a single mother of two and owner of eSalon, where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi got her hair done on Monday, is now being forced to shut down and relocate her business and […]

The Michigan Attorney General attacked 77-year-old Owosso barber Karl Manke on Wednesday, saying he is “not a patriot” for ignoring Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s shutdown order. Attorney General Dana Nessel said she has “no plans” to arrest Manke after she stripped him of his operating license on Tuesday. WATCH: AG @dananessel says she doesn’t plan on […]

The Costa Mesa City Council has voted to approve a $2.6 million street rehabilitation project to fix its ailing roadways, and added nearly $800,000 back into its small business grant program following a mistaken allocation of the original funds. The council approved the road expenditures, along with a second round of the city’s Small Business […]

A lobster fisherman, a milk farmer, and a metal fabricator delivered speeches during the Republican National Convention on Aug. 25, lauding President Donald Trump economic policies, including tax cuts and deregulation. Jason Joyce, and an eighth generation lobster fisherman from Maine, said he didn’t support Trump during the 2016 election, but has since changed his […]

The Victorian government is being accused of “box ticking” rather than proper consultation with small business over the roadmap out of lockdown restrictions. The day after business groups wrote an open letter saying the measures are causing massive economic and social damage, Council of Small Business Organisations Australia (COSBOA) chief executive Peter Strong criticised the […]

Brenda Lenton is consoled by a passer-by as she watched her apartment burn above the Foot Locker store on Lake Street near Chicago Avenue Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis. (Brian Peterson/Star Tribune via AP) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 3:05 PM PT — Sunday, May 31, 2020 Local businesses, which have been trying to recover from the […]