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Tyler lawn care business closes suddenly, employees left without work [Video]

TYLER, Texas (KETK) A longtime Tyler based company offering a variety of home and lawn care services suddenly shut its doors last week. Now, the owners of a local excavation company say they intend to take over. The sudden closure of Salcido Home Solutions caught some Nextdoor users off guard, who were posting about []

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Kamala Harris visits NH brewery to tout her small business tax plan [Video]

Vice President Kamala Harris used a New Hampshire campaign stop on Wednesday to propose an expansion of tax incentives for small businesses, a pro-entrepreneur plan that may soften her previous calls for wealthy Americans and large corporations to pay higher taxes. Describing small businesses as “an essential foundation to our entire economy, Harris said she wants to expand from $5,000 to $50,000 tax incentives for startup expenses, with the goal of eventually spurring 25 million new small business applications over four years. The speech is part of Harris’ effort to strengthen her economic credentials with only two months until the end of the election. Youre not only leaders in business. Youre civic leaders, Harris said. She added, You are part of the glue and the fabric that holds communities together.Harris spoke at the Throwback Brewery in North Hampton, outside Portsmouth, and meet with co-founders Annette Lee and Nicole Carrier. Their brewery got support to open its current location through a small business credit and installed solar panels using federal programs championed by the Biden administration, according to the Harris campaign.The campaign of Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican nominee, dismissed Harris’ small business plan, noting that the vice president has promised to eliminate a package of tax cuts approved during his administration that are set to expire next year. Trump’s campaign said those cuts allowed business owners to deduct up to 20% of qualified business income, reduced taxes on new equipment purchases and took steps to bolster small businesses as compared to larger ones. Before talking about small businesses, Harris addressed Wednesday’s school shooting in Georgia.Its just outrageous that every day, in our country, in the United States of American, that parents have to send their parents to school worried about whether or not their child will come home alive.She added, Weve got to stop it. It doesnt have to be this way.Harris’ New Hampshire trip is a rare deviation for a candidate who is spending most of her time in Midwest and Sun Belt states with pivotal roles in November’s election. Since President Joe Biden dropped his reelection bid and endorsed Harris, the vice president has focused on Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, which have been the centerpiece of successful Democratic campaigns. She also has frequently visited Arizona, Nevada and Georgia, all of which Biden narrowly won in 2020, and North Carolina, which she hopes to flip from Trump. Wednesday’s stop comes after Harris marked Labor Day with Monday rallies in Detroit and Pittsburgh and before she heads back to Pittsburgh on Thursday marking her 10th visit to Pennsylvania in 2024. Trump has called for lowering the corporate tax rate to 15% a break with Biden who in his budget proposal in March suggested setting the corporate tax rate at 28%. Harris has released relatively few major policy proposals in the roughly six weeks since taking over the top of the Democratic ticket, but has not suggested she’s planning to deviate greatly from his administration on tax policy. The small business plan Harris is presenting has lots that the business community would like. But that contrasts another proposal Harris unveiled last month, where she promised to help fight inflation by working to combat “price gouging from food producers that she suggests have driven grocery store prices up unnecessarily.Harris has built her campaign around calls to grow and strengthen the nation’s middle class and suggested that rich Americans and large corporations should pay their fair share in higher taxes.Both nominees are using the week before their debate to sharpen their economic messages about who could do more for the middle class. Trump will address the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.Biden, who built his campaign around promoting the middle class, won New Hampshire by 7 percentage points in 2020, but Trump came much closer to winning it against Hillary Clinton in 2016. The Harris campaign says it has 17 field offices operating in coordination with the state Democratic party across New Hampshire, compared to one for Trumps campaign.Some of the state’s Democrats were angry that Biden directed the Democratic National Committee to make South Carolina the first state to vote in the party’s presidential primary this year displacing Iowa’s caucus and a first-in-the-nation primary New Hampshire held for more than a century. Despite that, New Hampshire pressed ahead with an unsanctioned primary. Though Biden didn’t campaign in it, or appear on the ballot, he still easily won via a write-in drive. Trump has seized on the primary calendar change, posting on his social media account that Harris sees there are problems for her campaign in New Hampshire because of the fact that they disrespected it in their primary and never showed up.” Additionally, the cost of living in New Hampshire is through the roof, their energy bills are some of highest in the country, and their housing market is the most unaffordable in history, the former president wrote. I protected New Hampshires First-In-The-Nation Primary and ALWAYS will.

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South Carolina: Private universities see growth [Video]

Some private universities in the Upstate say they are experiencing growth as students enroll for the fall semester. Anderson University has grown to be the largest private university by enrollment in South Carolina. Officials said more than 4,500 students are enrolled in classes for the fall semester. “We feel that comes with just an investment in our students. We talk about hospitality a lot here, and truly, how are we treating each other and people, and I think the students get a sense of that,” said William Monts, Anderson University’s associate vice president of enrollment management. Along with a new football team debuting this year, university officials said they have also celebrated two other milestones. Officials have opened a permanent home for the College of Engineering and STEM programs along North Main Street in Anderson. The school has launched an international graduate school. “We know that employers are going to expect students to know how to use and greatest latest technology and things like that,” Monts said. “Talking about AI, we’ve got different sessions for our students.”Ryan Ireland and Davidson Jones are both studying biology at Anderson University. Since their freshman year, they said they have noticed a difference with the number of people on campus. “It’s definitely grown a lot,” Ireland said. “There’s more people in the cafeteria all the time. There’s more people walking around. Even parking has, like, decreased in terms of how much parking spaces there are.”However, Anderson University is not the only private school that is seeing growth. North Greenville University officials said they have welcomed their largest enrollment of around 2,300 students since the pandemic this year. “The total student population allows us to foster those relationships at a more personal level that many students are looking for,” said Chad Peters, NGU’s vice president of enrollment management. It’s that size that Jones and Ireland have said is important to them. “It was like the close family aspect that I got from the school because it’s, you know, smaller campus than other ones, and so, we just got a whole like group and like family environment that I feel here,” Jones said.AU officials said opportunities for more growth can be found in technology and STEM-related programs. “We continue to be selected as an Apple Distinguished School,” Monts said. “Apple is looking at how our institutions, implementing technology, are they thinking innovatively in their approach?”At the same time, Monts said the school wants to maintain the programs that the school is known for.