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(May 8, 2012) -- Today Thumbtack.com, in partnership with the Kauffman Foundation, released new data showing that Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma and Utah all earned A-plus ratings for their friendliness toward small businesses.  In contrast, small business owners gave California, Hawaii, Vermont, and Rhode Island an ‘F,’ while New York narrowly avoided this lowest category with a 'D' grade. 

(May 8, 2012) -- Transwest Truck Trailer RV is hosting an open house May 18 and 19 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. The public is invited to tour their location at 7550 E I-25 Frontage Road in Frederick, Colo., and enjoy savings on their current RV, horse trailer and hauler inventory.

(May 7, 2012) -- If your techs are extremely efficient, comparing work order time with collect time, but have a large discrepancy with premise time to work order time, then you are losing time to interval, breaks and other items you may want to start to measure. Analyze where your technicians’ time is being spent and focus on making that time productive.  A 1 percent increase in productivity for four technicians at $100 per hour will increase your annual revenue by $8,000.

(May 7, 2012) -- "Often when purchasing stereo/electronics, computers, cell phones, lawn mowers and even groceries, we elect to spend more to get more," said Sobel. "Getting more is also not just limited to quantity or quality. "This is how we are trained as consumers. This video gives powerful word tracks that help your client put the purchasing experience in the right order to ensure the highest level of satisfaction."

(May 7, 2012) -- An Arlington, Texas, couple was uninjured Saturday when their fifth-wheel truck and trailer RV jackknifed, and the trailer tipped on its side on the U.S. Highway 101 exit ramp in Port Angeles, reports Peninsula Daily.

(May 7, 2012) -- On Friday, supporters of the state park system launched an initiative to get Arizona motorists to provide needed funds. A $14 surcharge added to the cost of each vehicle registration fee is being proposed, reports the Yuma Sun.

(May 7, 2012) -- Gulf Coast RVs, the Middle East’s first specialist retailer of luxury RVs, officially opened its doors at an exclusive VIP event on Saturday evening. The showroom, located on Sheikh Zayed Road in Dubai, offers a premium range of motorhomes, travel trailers and caravans, reports Trade Arabia.

(May 7, 2012) -- Cummins Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Tom Linebarger said this morning that despite fluctuations in the global economy, the company is holding on to its target of $30 billion in sales by 2015, reports The Republic.

(May 7, 2012) -- Tick-transmitted infections are more common these days than in past decades. With explosive increases in deer populations, extending even into semi-urban areas in the eastern and western United States, the trend is for increasing abundance and geographic spread of deer ticks and Lone Star ticks. Scientists are finding an ever-increasing list of disease-causing microbes transmitted by these ticks.

(May 7, 2012) -- Sgt. Phil Wentzel, a Milwaukee County sheriff's deputy, is accused of being part of a national ring that swapped homemade child porn. The deputy was exposed when feds busted Denver and Pittsburgh child pornographers, tracing their collections back to a Campbellsport campground, reports WISN Milwaukee.