The Advocate of South Carolina Small Business 1717 Gervais Street • Columbia • SC • 29201 www.scsbc.org • (803) 252-5733 PRESS RELEASE Date: January 15, 2020 From: South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Subject: BREAKING NEWS: SC Senate Takes 1 st Permanent Step Against Offshore Drilling Contact: Frank Knapp, President/CEO,…
Feds ordered to produce additional seismic documents
Charleston Regional Business Journal January 8, 2020 Staff Report A U.S. district judge has ordered the federal government to produce all documents related to its decision to allow seismic blasting tests off the coast of South Carolina, a legal victory for municipalities and environmental groups who are suing to block…
Conservationists win court round against oil drilling offshore SC
Charleston Post and Courier January 7, 2020 By Bo Petersen The federal agencies in charge of approving seismic testing for offshore oil and gas in the Atlantic must show conservationists how they arrived at their permitting decisions, a district court judge in Charleston has ruled. That means staff will have…
Senate confirms Trump pick for small business chief
“This is a fresh opportunity for the administration to refocus on issues or measures that could actually help small businesses,” said Frank Knapp, co-chair of Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform. The Hill January 7, 2020 By Naomi Jagoda The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Jovita Carranza to head President Trump‘s Small Business Administration…
SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza Must be a Strong Voice for Main Street in an Administration that Favors Big Business
Jan. 7, 2020 Statement by Frank Knapp, Jr., co-chair of Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform and president & CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce, who formerly served on an advisory body to the SBA Office of the National Ombudsman, on today’s appointment of Jovita Carranza as…
Reno, Vegas entrepreneurs say Trump’s 2017 tax law has not helped small businesses
Northern Nevada Business View December 31. 2019 By Kaleb Roedel RENO, Nev. — Tonda Benge had plans to hire more staff, raise wages, and invest in better technology. Benge, owner of Professional Dog Mom in Reno, assumed she’d be able to do all of this, and possibly more, following the…
Businesses campaign for election security
Lexington County Chronicle December 26, 2019 Special to the Chronicle The small-business community is doing its part to ensure a fair election in 2020. Protect Democracy USA, the business campaign launched in August calling on Congress to pass legislation critically needed to protect the 2020 elections has been re-branded “Business…
At Tax Law’s 2-Year Anniversary, Small Businesses Ask Policymakers for Reform that Actually Helps Main Street
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Conan Knoll conan@emcstrategies.com (831) 524-6764 Nevada entrepreneurs join Businesses for Responsible Tax Reform on a press call to discuss how, two years in, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act has failed to help small businesses and to call on policymakers and candidates to support tax policy…
Business Campaign for Election Security Re-branded
PRESS RELEASE Date: December 3, 2019 From: Business 4 Protecting The Election (formerly Protect Democracy USA) Subject: Business Campaign for Election Security Re-branded Contact: Frank Knapp, 803-252-5733 (w), 803-600-6874 (c), ProtectElection@gmail.com “Protect Democracy USA, the business campaign launched this past August calling on Congress to pass legislation critically needed to…
Local businesses prepare for Small Business Saturday
WIS-TV November 29, 2019 By Emily Wakeman COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – You may be recovering from a day spent at the department stores taking advantage of all of the Black Friday deals, but this week’s kickoff of the holiday shopping season continues tomorrow with Small Business Saturday. It’s a day…