Today in Global Small Business: Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day?

©iStock/Vanesa Ayala

What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners:

• Depending on where in the United States you live and whom you work for, Columbus Day, 10/9/23, may be a day off with pay, another holiday entirely, or no different from any other Monday.
• McCarthy weighs in on Trump's involvement in House speaker race.
• More than 250 bodies found at site of Israeli Supernova festival - rescuers say.
• Quote of the week: “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it." – Robert E. Lee
• Israel is battling Hamas militants for a second day after a surprise attack.
• Americans may be among the dead and those taken hostage in Israel-Hamas war, Blinken says.