(FORTUNE Small Business) – THE HEADLINES

1 Kmart Files for Chapter 11. Where Does That Leave Martha?

THE TAKE

Entrepreneur/lifestylist Martha Stewart may be on the way to Target, Sears, or Kohl's by the time you read this. The lesson: Don't let one customer account for a big chunk of your business.

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2 Wendy's Dave Thomas, Dead at 69

[THE TAKE]

The Wendy's founder may have been among the best frontmen ever, but he wasn't a model dad. His son says, "Dad thought home was a great place to visit, but he didn't want to live there." Yikes!

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3 The Economy: The Bulls Are Back

[THE TAKE]

Heck, we don't know if the econ pundits are right or wrong. But we do know that the endless monitoring of the economy's pulse is tiresome. Wake us when something really happens.

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4 Says the WSJ: Job Seekers Say They Want to Negotiate Severance and Vacation Up Front

[THE TAKE]

What Kool-Aid are all those folks drinking? (Is it advertised in Fast Company?) The Scorecard editors want to clue you in on one thing: The free-agent economy is as dead as Mariah Carey's career.

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5 Enron's Ken Lay Resigns as CEO. What's Next?

[THE TAKE]

It ain't likely that Kenny-Boy will follow his former hired hand, Jeff Skilling, into the small business world. (See last month's FSB.) There are still some vacancies on the SEC, right?