By C. Grant Jackson, Business Editor, The State The health insurance premium for Don Purcell’s three small businesses rose 18 percent to 20 percent last year. Purcell, who runs Spring Valley Auto Body, Express Rent-A-Car and Long Creek Equestrian Center with 23 full-time employees, is facing the biggest problem of small business today: How to […]
Availability of health insurance shrinking Read More »
The legislative session is more than half over and your Small Business Chamber has been very busy. This e-newsletter updates you on our legislative agenda and introduces you to a new issue. There is also information on efforts to prepare high schools students with meaningful careers and news on developments regarding the number one issue for small
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The legislative session is more than half over and your Small Business Chamber has been very busy. This e-newsletter updates you on our legislative agenda and introduces you to a new issue. There is also information on efforts to prepare high schools students with meaningful careers and news on developments regarding the number one issue for small
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The Small Business Chamber will be supporting better enforcement of predatory gas pricing regulations by the SC Department of Consumer Affairs. An original mission of the Chamber was to ensure that small businesses were treated fairly in the regulatory process. Ironically, the issue of predatory gas pricing is not one of uneven enforcement; it’s one of no
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By Tim Wilkes, Guest Columnist, The State Ask at any South Carolina business if there are sufficient numbers of qualified applicants for white-collar positions, and the answer will be yes. But ask South Carolina small business owners if they can find homegrown, qualified or skilled technical workers to meet their needs, and the answer will be
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Welcome to the first e-newsletter of The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce. By allowing us to communicate with you via the Internet, we save our organization money in terms of printing and postage. Plus, because you have e-mail, we can keep you better informed as to what is happening at the State House in
Official Newsletter of the SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce Read More »
Welcome to the first e-newsletter of The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce. By allowing us to communicate with you via the Internet, we save our organization money in terms of printing and postage. Plus, because you have e-mail, we can keep you better informed as to what is happening at the State House in
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April 11, 2001 By Dave L’Heureux, The State By Dave L’Heureux, The State, Columbia, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 11–Starting Oct. 1, South Carolina consumers will have to pay a new 1.4 percent surcharge on their monthly phone bills. The S.C. Public Service Commission, responding to a 1996 legislative directive, Tuesday voted 7-0 in
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April 10, 2001 Columbia, SC– On Tuesday, the Public Service Commission voted to create a $36-$40 million universal service fund for the purpose of formally subsidizing telephone service to rural areas of the state. Another purpose of this fund was to promote the competition for local telephone service. The S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce
$340 Million Fund Rejected by PSC Read More »
Published in The State The S.C. Chamber of Commerce won’t have the only formal business agenda next year. A major tax reform bill that would cut state taxes on small business by almost 30 percent was introduced at the end of the current session by Rep. Tim Wilkes, D-Fairfield. The bill, to be reintroduced next
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