On a sunny April morning Steve Jackson stands outside of his downtown tire company laughing and joking with the continuous stream of customers that pulls off 16th Street into his lot.
For months, Americans have been subjected to a sort of economic water torture — a maddening drip of bad news about jobs, gas prices, sagging home values, creeping inflation, the slouching dollar and a stock market in bumpy descent.
Matt Abrams, founder and owner of A’s Custom Powder Coating, is ready for the leap from small business to emerging industry.
It just looks bad.
I certainly got an education in local politics, grudges and attitudes last week in response to a request for reasons why many people consider Ashland’s downtown business district to be doomed, while others see it as an area of nearly unlimited opportunity.
Oil prices hit a record $105.10 a barrel Thursday, a day after a surprise drop in U.S. crude supplies and a decision by OPEC not to boost production.
Someone please clue me in.
Toshiba may pull the plug on its high-definition DVD format but no decision has been made, the Japanese electronics maker said in a statement Monday.
General Motors Corp. reported a $38.7 billion loss for 2007 on Tuesday, the largest annual loss ever for an automotive company, and said it is making a new round of buyout offers to U.S. hourly workers in hopes of replacing some of them with lower-paid help.
Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues the slumping Internet pioneer, a person familiar with the situation said Saturday.
Despite remarkably quick passage, the economic aid plan and its cash rebates may come too late to prevent a recession this year. For many experts, however, the $168 billion boost to the lagging economy may mean the difference between a short downturn and something much more serious.
Microsoft Corp. has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo Inc. with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion in its boldest bid yet to challenge Google Inc.'s dominance of the lucrative online search and advertising markets.
AK Steel Holding Corp. had record revenues and shipments in 2007 and starts the new year healthier than imaginable when his management team took over four years ago, CEO James Wainscott said Tuesday.
The Federal Reserve, confronted with a global stock sell-off fanned by increased fears of a recession, slashed a key interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday and indicated further rate cuts were likely.
United for urgent action, the White House and Congress raced toward emergency steps Thursday to rescue the national economy from a possible recession, including tax rebates of at least $300 a person, and maybe as much as $800.
Todd Eastham says he is living the dream of every American business owner.
King’s Daughters Medical Center has been named a national finalist for the 2007 Foster G. McGaw Prize, earning the health care facility a $10,000 award.
Three separate generations of Fieldses have owned Fields Flower Shop, making it one of the oldest family businesses in Ashland’s downtown.
The Bush administration, faced with a deteriorating economy and a big jump in unemployment, said Friday it was considering an economic stimulus package that might include tax cuts to ward off a recession.
The Ashland Town Center on Saturday announced plans for a new JCPenney anchor store
that when complete will include over 104,000 square feet of retail space. The store, to be built on the south side of the center, will be the first JCPenney in Kentucky to be built in the retailer’s latest store format, with wider aisles and updated fixtures to provide an easy and more convenient shopping environment.
Michelle Kratschmer's family was craving the usual — a large pepperoni pizza and a small pie with black olives and cheese — but how she entered the phone order was entirely new.
The world's largest travel fair opened with a strong focus on green issues Monday, highlighting the ever-increasing pressure on the tourism industry to promote environmentally friendly ways of seeing the world.
Al Gore announced Monday he's joining Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firm to help the private sector take on global warming, and perhaps make himself some money.
I heard a lot of positive comments on a recent story we published about the Ross family’s sorghum farm at Durbin, although a couple of callers pointed out I left out a bit of crucial information in that piece — specifically, where it is.
A union representing nearly 11,000 grocery workers voted Wednesday to approve a new labor agreement with Kroger Co. in the home of the nation's largest traditional grocer.
Portable project power, personalized computer pages, pregnancy monitoring and a massive racing facility were among the investment opportunities discussed on Tuesday during a meeting of the Tri-State Capital Investment Club.
The recent quest to locate and identify a full-service gas station also brought an unexpected wave of additional suggestions about other local businesses whose employees go “above and beyond” for their customers.
General Motors Corp. won its struggle to unload $51 billion in retiree health costs and improve competitiveness in the latest round of contract talks with the United Auto Workers, but not without a short-lived strike that wrung promises out of GM to keep jobs at U.S. plants.
If the United Auto Workers strike against General Motors Corp. lasts longer than a week or two, it could cost GM billions of dollars and stop the momentum the company was building with some of its new models, according to several industry analysts.
Time Warner Cable on Saturday will announce the launch of Digital Phone, a new cable service that offers consumers a new choice in residential phone service.
The Better Business Bureau of Central and Eastern Kentucky is warning about suspicious phone calls from those claiming to be with the Social Security Administration and offering money if consumers provide bank account numbers.
One of the oldest businesses in Louisa is Wellman Hardware Store.
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Mattel recalled 9 million Chinese-made toys Tuesday, including Polly Pocket play sets and Batman action figures, because of dangers to children from lead paint or tiny magnets that could be swallowed.
As of today, area residents have yet another option for dining out available to them.
Austyn’s Steakhouse and Lounge opens for lunch at 11 a.m. in the old railroad depot building at 124 Bobby Bare Blvd.
King’s Daughters Medical Center has added robotic-assisted surgery to its array of high-tech surgical innovations.
The King’s Daughters Heart and Vascular Center is offering an innovative new treatment option for patients suffering from peripheral arterial disease, a cardiovascular condition that restricts blood flow in the legs, and sometimes the arms.
AK Steel Holding Corp., reaping the benefits of a dozen new labor contracts in the past three years, said Tuesday that second-quarter earnings more than tripled on record sales and shipments, and the company's stock leaped to all-time high.
Wendy's International Inc. is exploring a possible sale of the company, the nation's third-largest hamburger chain said Monday, as it warned that profits for the year would fall short of Wall Street expectations.
In the words of Eric Schlosser, today’s society is a “fast food nation.”
Cheryl Spriggs said she had no problem adding jewels to an already successful clothing business.
Toyota Motor Corp. became the world's top auto seller in the first three months of the year, passing rival General Motors Corp. for the first time, the Japanese automaker said Tuesday.
The name of the business, Rodney Baugh admits, can be a little misleading.
The store Baugh manages is called Tractor Supply Co. But, there’s nary a John Deere or Massey Ferguson to be found anywhere.
Time for Tots Preschool is open at 2208 Argillite Road in Flatwoods.
So, what’s in a name? Or, perhaps more importantly, what’s on the menu?
The redbuds and dogwoods are blooming, the first green leaves are peeking out of the trees and, before you know it, homeowners will be peeking out their doors and thinking about lawnwork.
Nurseries and garden centers are ready.
People are just ready to get out and dig in the dirt, said David Johnson, who with his wife Pam owns Johnson’s Nursery & Garden Center in Rush.
For years, the Fletcher House was a celebrated Russell restaurant.
Now the building is something more along the lines of what its name suggested; a house.
But it’s still a business. And the Fletcher family is still involved.
Children of AK Steel employees who had been locked out of their jobs for more than a year joined their parents in cheering Wednesday that they will soon be back to work.
Terry Bowden has been named by the Huntington District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as resource manager at Grayson Lake.
Nursing response time at Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital will be significantly improved with the hospital’s installation of the region’s first wireless nurse call system from Vocera Communications.
Are you having trouble getting a tax issue resolved with the IRS?
Are you going through an economic hardship and need to get your refund faster than normal to avoid losing your home or vehicle?
If so, then the Taxpayer Advocate Service can help.
King’s Daughters Medical Center’s Emergency Department recently earned superior customer satisfaction marks from Press Ganey, the leader in health care satisfaction measurement.
As the owner of Katie’s Corner restaurant in Ashland, Nancy Tilton has had plenty to do.
But Tilton has added another title to her resume recently.
If you want to build your very own custom teddy bear, Tilton’s the one to see.
John Stevens walked into a patient’s room one day and saw one of the hospital’s diabetic videos on the TV screen.
“I said, ‘Oh, are you diabetic?’ and he said, ‘No, but my wife is ...,” he said.
Another patient asked if she could get to her e-mail, to send a message to her son in California.
The diabetes services of Our Lady of Bellefonte Hospital’s Diabetes & Wound Care Center have received a three-year accreditation by the American Diabetes Association.
It used to be that when you wanted to rent a movie, you went to a video store.
However, Netflix and other companies that combine online and mail-order service lured away many consumers who wanted greater selection and no late fees.
Now, thanks to a Houston-based company, viewers have yet another option.
Shares of AK Steel Holding Corp. jumped nearly 10 percent on Tuesday after the steelmaker reported a wider fourth-quarter loss than a year ago but an upbeat outlook for 2007.
Danny Duncan, a longtime employee of The Independent, has taken the position of advertising director at The Morehead News.
If the region can maintain what it has, and grow where it’s able, 2007 ought to be a favorable year for employment, according to economic development leaders and business owners.
Bankruptcy filings in the Eastern District of U.S. Bankruptcy Court .
The Scott Properties Building that had stood so long at the corner of Powell Lane and Argillite Road in Flatwoods is gone, with a new pharmacy going up in its place.
A muddy field surrounded by orange netting, with a steel structure rising in the middle now occupies the spot that the red-brick building had held for so many years.
The building had been home to a rotating cast of businesses over the years, but the spot will now be occupied by a singular Rite-Aid Pharmacy, which will be moving from its original spot in the Hamer Village.
It was the only place to “play on breakfast,” so to speak.
In this hospital, you can drive a mobile health van, jump on a stethoscope, even ride on a Band-Aid.
Jobless rates continued to fall locally and across the state in September, according to statistics released last week by the Kentucky Office of Employment and Training.
Independent businesswomen from around the Tri-State will jointly present a fall fair for women from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday on the 12th floor of the Skytower building in downtown Ashland.
Stuart Webb has been elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of the Community & Technical College Foundation of Ashland Inc.
Bankruptcy filings in the Eastern District of U.S. Bankruptcy Court include the following:
The old Shake Shop in Grayson has been gone since the 1980s, but the place obviously hasn’t been forgotten.
A new restaurant by the same name opened at the beginning of August, and customers seem to be making up for lost time.
Beginning Nov. 3, nonstop flights to Sanford, Fla., will be available at Tri-State Airport for $59.
Ashland’s first stand-alone Chick-fil-A restaurant, complete with drive-through service, an indoor playground and a full breakfast menu, will open Sept. 7, when $26,000 in free Chick-fil-A food will be given away to the first 100 adults in line that morning.
