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...previous life as a nightclub owner, Dimitris went through this routine frequently. He estimates he paid about a fifth of his revenue in bribes - to tax collectors, health inspectors, police and other officials. Small firms "are essentially obligated to conduct business this way," he says. "There are so many legal barriers to conducting businesses that they'll shut you down otherwise." (See pictures of retailers which have gone out of business...
...just been overlooked," says Missouri State Representative Bill Deeken. In January, Deeken proposed "Love Legislation" that would allow restaurants and bars that lacked annual Sunday liquor licenses to be open and sell alcohol on Valentine's Day. Rob Agee, a Lohman, Mo., café owner who brought the issue to Deeken, estimates that the move could mean millions in extra sales for restaurants and hundreds of thousands of dollars in state revenue. The measure made it through two committees before being scuppered by House leaders, whom Deeken said worried the bill would...
...public hearing attended by over 90 Cambridge residents last night, chicken and duck owner Blake R. Brasher appealed a denial by the Cambridge Inspectional Services Department to keep his co-owned birds in his backyard as an “accessory use” of his existing residential property...
Barbara M. Bryant, a Cambridge resident and owner of three chickens, said that she was having trouble understanding why chickens appeared unappealing as pets...
...gathered me and my sister and my cousins around, and she told the story of my great-great-great-grandmother Rose,” Carter recalls. When Rose was 12 years old, her mother was sold to a different slave owner. The young girl never reunited with her mother...