| Sports Legends to ring in holidays with dollar admission, discounted apparel
Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards hopes to lift the spirits of Baltimore sports fan this holiday season. The museum will host a dollar admission day and holiday sale on Dec. 8. All visitors to the museum that day will receive $1 admission and have an opportunity to purchase merchandise, jerseys, memorabilia and other sports apparel at discounted prices. All Orioles jerseys, hats and apparel will be marked down between 30 and 40 percent. The museum will be open Dec. 8 between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Parking at Camden Yards' north warehouse lot, outside Sports Legends, will also be reduced to $5. Sports Legends opened in May 2005 in the old Camden Station. The 22,000-square-foot museum houses artifacts and memorabilia chronicling Maryland's sports history.
A business success, naturally
Tori Stuart was destined to run her own business. At the age of 5, she often played secretary and one day told her father: "You're fired." By 12 she was selling hand-painted barrettes in boutiques near her childhood home in Westchester County in New York. And while attending Brown University, Stuart and a friend started a plant-watering business for students who went home for winter break - and then hired someone to do the job while they too left town. "We figured out how much it would cost to replace a plant that would have died and charged a little bit less than that," said Stuart. Today Stuart runs Needham-based Zoe Foods, makers of granola cereal and bars filled with ground flaxseed, soy, omega-3, fiber, and protein. The privately held company produces three types of cereal and four types of bars and does about $3 million a year in retail sales.
Handled with tender care
The National Hockey League last week passed the one-quarter mark on the 2007-08 schedule, and to no one's surprise, the Senators and Red Wings had comfortable leads in their conferences. But raise a hand high if you expected Martin Gerber, considered an overpriced free agent bust last season in Ottawa, to be the key to the Senators' fortunes. Meanwhile, Ray Emery, fresh from carrying them to the finals last spring, struggled to remain around. 500 with his few starts. And raise the other hand higher if you felt Chris Osgood, and not Dominik Hasek, would be Detroit's No. 1 tender. As of yesterday morning, Osgood led the league with a miserly 1.65 goals-against average. Hasek stood a ho-hum 5-5-1 with a less-than-dominating 2.90 GAA. What should this tell us? Maybe nothing other than what we remind ourselves of each year: When it comes to goaltending, it's neither crapshoot nor science, which renders it probably nothing more than an educated hunch.
The Natchez Democrat
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A group of business leaders has started a drive to get the next governor to make port improvements in Louisiana one of his top economic development priorities. ‘‘We want international trade and the ports to be Jindal's No. 1 priority for economic development,'' said Conrad Appel, the Metairie businessman who is spearheading the campaign. ‘‘Now is the time to do this.'' As Appel sees it, the problem is the state's largely fragmented network of roughly 30 public ports. Although allied in a statewide ports association, the cargo hubs often compete with each other for business and a relatively small pool of public dollars, he said. Appel suggests a system that brings the ports together for joint marketing efforts and economic goals. Without such a system, he says Louisiana will never be able to regain the market share it has lost in recent decades to cities such as Houston, Miami and Mobile, Ala.
Readers: Health care costs vary
There was no clear cut answer in this week's Business Pulse Survey, "How much more will you pay for health care coverage next year?" While 80 percent of the 92 respondents said their costs would rise, the amounts varied from 1 percent to more than 20 percent. Forty percent, or 38 votes, said costs would rise between 11 percent and 20 percent. Only 13 percent said their costs would remain the same or have negligible change. These are the findings in the Tampa Bay Business Journal's nonscientific weekly online survey designed to provide a snapshot of what readers are thinking. "The low option plans are unchanged, but the top plan goes up by a little over 20 percent," said one respondent. "Health care is too expensive in this country especially with wages of workers are declining.
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