Sorry I have been AWOL this week with this blog. Monday and Tuesday were consumed with preparing for the visit of the SBA National Ombudsman, Brian Castro. In January I was appointed to the U.S Small Business Administration’s Region IV Regulatory Fairness Board by SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet. This Board advises the Office of the […]
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The State April 21, 2015 By RODDIE BURRIS You hear it all the time from business people who deal with the federal government: if only someone could help cut the red tape. Small business owners who sign up in advance will be able to take their concerns directly to the U.S. Small Business Administration on
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The Hill February 5, 2015 By Amit Narang This week, House Republicans will take up legislation to “help” small businesses by deregulating industry in a variety of areas including Wall Street, the environment, food safety, workplace safety and consumer product safety. The public will be told that this legislation, the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements
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U.S. Small Business Administration January 22, 2015 ATLANTA, GA – Columbia, South Carolina small business owner Frank Knapp, Jr. has been appointed to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Region IV Regulatory Fairness Board by SBA Administrator Maria Contreras-Sweet. Regional Regulatory Fairness Boards in all 10 of SBA’s regions represent the voice of small business on regulatory
David Brodwin is a cofounder and board member of the American Sustainable Business Council. I also serve on this board and am the co-chair of the organization. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– U.S. News & World Report December 8, 2014 By David Brodwin One of the biggest challenges in building a sustainable economy is protecting the regulators who exist
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The following comment was submitted today to the EPA in support of the proposed Clean Power Plan rule. You can learn more about this rule here. Here is the information for sending your own comment. Email A-and-R-Docket@epa.gov: Include docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602 in the subject line of the message ————————————————————– The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of
AllGov.com Friday, November 14, 2014 By Noel Brinkerhoff Consumer, environmental and worker safety regulators in Washington are supposed to ensure the concerns of small businesses are included in rulemaking. But increasingly federal agencies are instead giving too much weight to the voices of large corporate interests that have “hijacked” small business representation. The watchdog group Center
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The Center for Effective Government (CEG) has published a new report, Gaming the Rules: How Big Business Hijacks the Small Business Review Process to Weaken Public Protections. David Levine, co-founder and president of the American Sustainable Business Council, and I joined CEG’s Ron White in a telepresser this past Monday to give reporters extra time
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In 2004, the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce successfully worked for the legislative enactment of the Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Act, which created a Small Business Regulatory Review Committee to evaluate all newly promulgated state regulations and make recommendations as to how they can be changed to lessen the negative impact on small
The SC Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) has consistently and successfully fought on behalf of small businesses regarding telephone service charges. In 2000, BellSouth asked the Public Service Commission (PSC) for permission to collect $340 million in surcharge fees (Universal Service Fund) on telephones that would have cost up to $13 per line per
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