Disaster relief program for businesses offers workshops (North County Times)
RAMONA -- The California Small Business Disaster Loan Guarantee Program is offering two workshops to explain what programs are available to businesses that suffered losses caused by the October wildfires.

Business news in brief (Savannah Morning News)
WASHINGTON - Federal securities regulators Wednesday gave companies the authority to deny shareholders access to board-election ballots, a move pension funds and governance advocates say could make corporations less responsive to investors' interests.

Allegro Biodiesel Acquires Minority Stake in Community Power Corporation (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Allegro Biodiesel Corporation today announced that it has invested $1 million to acquire a minority stake in privately-held Community Power Corporation based in Littleton, Colorado, a leading developer of small modular bioenergy technology and products.

November 28, 2007 (Federal Reserve Board)
Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco based on information collected on or before November 16, 2007. This document summarizes comments received from business and other contacts outside the Federal Reserve and is not a commentary on the views of Federal Reserve officials.

Coalition pushes giving instead of getting (The Buffalo News)
A coalition of community activist groups nationwide, including one in Buffalo, is calling on five leading Wall Street investment banks to donate more than $30 billion in expected employee bonuses to a national homeowner rescue fund.

Fed sees regional growth slowing (BizJournals)
The economy on the West Coast and Hawaii continued to expand through October and mid-November, but growth is slowing, according to the latest Beige Book issued by the Federal Reserve.

Loans out there for businesses (The Monterey County Herald)
The key question when starting a business or expanding an existing one is, where will I find the money and what collateral are they going to want? In most cases, you rush off to your local bank.

City defends its efforts at economic development (The Lompoc Record)
The City of Lompoc has a clear economic development strategy that has delivered results. As a consequence, Lompoc enjoys one of the healthiest and most diversified economies on the Central Coast, based on defense and commercial space, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, government, tourism and entrepreneurship. To assure a sustainable economy in the Lompoc Valley, the city will continue to ...

Greek Court Dismisses Case Against Ex-Curator (New York Times)
An appeals court in Athens dismissed a criminal case on Tuesday against Marion True, a former curator for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

American Way Office Bldg. Sells to Out-of-State Investor (The Memphis Daily News)
     A limited liability company incorporated in Nevada has bought a three-story office building near the former Mall of Memp....