Saving our stages
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One of the best things to come out of the recently signed $900 billion coronavirus bill is the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant.
The program is offered for businesses and nonprofits that have been affected...
Checking out the state’s coronavirus briefings
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Business people would be well advised to invest some time during the week to check out John Carney's Covid-19 briefing, even if your're not a fan of the governor. (Click here to check...
Private equity buyouts continue
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Last week, we saw yet another example of the trend toward smaller businesses being acquired by private equity.
This trend has been going on for years, thanks in part to low interest rates that...
Those newsy weekends
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Weekends used to be quiet on the Delaware Business Now website. Not that many years ago, we took a look at traffic figures on a Saturday morning and found a grand total of...
Delaware’s pandemic and mentioning the T word
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Largely overlooked in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on Wednesday was another sad milestone.
Delaware ended up with a one-day record number for coronavirus cases, with more than 1,240 testing positive.
The...
Mob behavior
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It will take some time to put things in perspective after yesterday's terrible events. I'll leave that job to the pundits.
At first blush, the day was reminiscent of several months ago in Wilmington...
Vaccines – Now comes the hard part
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One of our most popular stories over the holidays was a post on the progress of Covid-19 vaccinations in Delaware. For newsletter readers, an update is above.
The key link in the post was...
Delaware Business Now’s top stories from a dreadful 2020
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Warning - You may not want to relive those memories that will come from the 30 most-read stories during the dreadful year of 2020 that come from the Delaware Business Now website.
Fortunately,...
A different Christmas
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For many of us, Christmas won’t be the same.
Our daughter will not be home for the first time in her life.
After years when a visit simply meant a hop up I-95 from northern...
A day and a year for the airing of grievances
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Today Delaware sort of celebrates a holiday that came in response to the commercialization of Christmas and that tiresome tune from the Lexus holiday commercial (I made up the latter).
Festivus features the airing...