November 1, 2025

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Start a Business?! How ’bout Occupy Entrepreneurship?

Rina Risper07 mins

By Chris Rabb

www.newamericamedia.org

I recently came across a pithy, anti-Occupy Wall Street column in Entrepreneur Magazine that encouraged protesters to go home and create start-up ventures instead of standing up for social and economic justice. The column was just under 400 words, but I can summarize it for you: Stop complaining and start a business. Though the conservative argument behind it was neither new nor particularly well-founded, it was aggressively inane and patently misguided all the same.

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Do You Have an Opinion? 10-22

Rina Risper05 mins

Dear Rina,

I wanted to send you this in honor of Veterans Day.

Bellaire Bridge Calls Me Home…from a memoir written for my Dad

By Nancy Allen

My dad was born in Moundsville, West Virginia, the oldest child of Pap a coal miner and Katherine a Russian immigrant.  The mines and the steel mills were always by the Ohio river where the heart of the city beats and flows.  Everything in the valley runs along side the Ohio River, and the only way that you could get across the river to West Virginia was, and is, the Bellaire Bridge.

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Blackflix Movie Reviews: Tower Heist

Rina Risper06 mins

 

 

 

Studio:     Universal Pictures (104 min)
Plot:     An action-comedy about a staff of blue-collar workers who seek revenge on the Wall Street swindler that stiffed them.
Cast:     Eddie Murphy, Ben Stiller, Gabourey Sidibe, Alan Alda, Casey Affleck, Michael Pena, Matthew Broderick
Rating:     PG-13
Bottom Line:     ****

By Samantha Ofole-Prince

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    Ask Tamara: Betrayed by Family Secrets – Everyone Knew But Me!

    Rina Risper05 mins

    Dear Tamara:

    I just found out that my father has a daughter with another woman. Apparently he had an affair on my mother shortly after they were married. The woman contacted my father and now wants to have a relationship with him after all of these years. I also found out that my mother and two siblings already knew about this girl and no one bothered to tell me. Yes I am the baby of the family, but I think I had as much right as everyone else to know the truth. I haven’t talked to my parents or my siblings since they broke the news to me and to tell the truth, I don’t think I am going to any time soon. If they could lie to me all these years about having a half-sister, what else could they be keeping from me? Furthermore, I am angry at my father for betraying my mother. I can’t believe she even stayed with him all of these years!
    Betrayed

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    Your Other 8 Hours: The Most Wanted Gift (and It’s Free!)

    Rina Risper07 mins

    By Robert Pagliarini, Tribune Media Services

    Over the last couple of weeks I’ve written how you can save money this Christmas. If you follow those tips, you’ll make the people on your list quite happy. But if “happy” just isn’t good enough for the most special people in your life, you can give them a gift they will never forget.

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    Avoid Weight Gain During The Holidays Take Control of Your Weight During the Holiday Season

    Rina Risper08 mins

    The holidays are a perfect time to focus on family and friends, not food. It’s also an important time to move more and eat better.

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    Interpersonal EDGE: Stop Paying for Coworker Mistakes

    Rina Risper06 mins

    By Dr. Daneen Skube
    Tribune Media Services

    Q. Is incompetency the new normal? Every time I turn around at work, somebody is dropping the ball, making a mistake or just being plain being stupid. I am really tired of having to pay for everyone else’s mistakes. How can I stop having my job impacted by other people not doing their jobs?

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    Retire Smart: Best Employment Security Plan for Older Workers: Hang on to the Job You Have

    Rina Risper08 mins

    By Mark Miller
    Tribune Media Services

    The jobless rate for older workers isn’t as high as it is for the overall U.S. workforce. But older workers who do lose their jobs tend to remain jobless much longer than their younger counterparts-if they’re able to find work at all.

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    AboutThatCar.com:  2011 Audi A4 — Outstanding

    Rina Risper07 mins

    Base price of $32,850. But add on its Premium Plus option package which included LED running lights and LED tail lights, Bluetooth and a driver information system, the Sport Package option which included sport seats and high performance tires and the sticker was $39,180

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    Lansing Fashion Designer Natalia Villafana Makes Big Waves in Florida

    Rina Risper03 mins

     Left: Natalia Villafana, owner of Natalia Villafana, Couture Design was the “ 2010 Fashion In Detroit Design Competition” winner.  Courtesy photo
     
     Model with the flag is from the Fall/Winter 2011 Couture Innovative Collection. Courtesy photo 

     
    Model at the beach in Tampa wearing Serene Blue from the Spring/Summer 2011 Fairytale Line. Photo by Damian Alpizar

     
    LANSING, MI — Natalia Villafana, owner of Natalia Villafana, Couture Design, is expanding her business to Tampa, Florida.  She will also maintain her business in Lansing.

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