The Chattanooga Convention Center’s revenues for October were up compared to the same month a year ago, breaking a string of down months.

Q: Mrs. M, of Sale Creek, writes: I’m writing concerning the article you wrote in the paper Nov. 6. A woman asked about drawing her ex-husband’s Social Security.

Volkswagen Group of America will showcase advancements in automotive technology during interactive demonstrations and presentations at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transportation Systems in New York.

The deadline for public participation in the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program passed last week with only one locally owned bank applying.

The business licenses as provided by the Hamilton County Clerk for Nov. 10-14 follow:

Every entrepreneurial manager needs to have a workable framework for sales management.

Shares of CBL & Associates Properties Inc. closed at $3.83 on Monday, a plunge of $1.03 or 21.19 percent from Friday.

The EPB board on Friday named David Johnson as vice president of information technology.

These are new cases, according to court records, that were filed in the Chattanooga and Winchester offices of U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s Eastern District of Tennessee Nov. 6-12

Q: Ms. T from Ringgold writes: “I am 66 and have been drawing widow’s benefits since age 60. Am I eligible to draw Social Security on the record of my late husband with an increase in benefits?”

A Jackson, Miss.-based electrical distribution company has agreed to buy a Chattanooga electrical distributor and manufacturers’ agent.

A Pikeville, Tenn., couple announced Wednesday they purchased a Sparta, Tenn.-based electrical motor service company and will look to expand the company into either Pikeville, Soddy-Daisy or Dunlap, Tenn.

People across the country have organized into groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Students Against Drunk Driving, the federal government’s Click It or Ticket campaign, the Motorcycle Safety Foundation, Insurer-sponsored safe driving programs primarily geared toward teens, and many others in an attempt to reduce roadway deaths and serious injuries.

Now that the emotion, enthusiasm, energy and focus of the recent national election has subsided a bit, a number of entrepreneurial managers have been asking what does the outcome bode for their businesses?