Published on September 5, 2012 By Kent Hoover, Washington Bureau Chief | The Business Journals Bonny Moellenbrock, executive director of Investors Circle, talks about how her firm’s investment strategy, while Frank Knapp, president of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce listens. The 47th floor of the Hearst Tower in Charlotte seemed like an […]
WorkCompCentral.com August 29, 2012 By Michael Whiteley, Eastern Bureau Chief South Carolina Consumer Advocate Elliott Elam Jr. and a group of small businesses reached a settlement in the latest in a series of administrative court battles with the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) on Monday and agreed to a 3% increase in loss costs,
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Published August 15, 2012 BY DAN COOK You’re a well intentioned, discerning person, so you probably know about the BuySC campaign that encourages consumers to spend their money at locally owned businesses. Well, there’s a growing body of academic research showing that shopping locally is beneficial for communities, and a recent article at livingeconomies.org surveys
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Published on July 27, 2012 By David Brodwin, US News David Brodwin is a cofounder and board member of American Sustainable Business Council. Follow him on Twitter at @davidbrodwin. America loves small business. We honor the toughness and dedication it takes to keep a business going. We appreciate the jobs and incomes they provide and
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Editorial – Letters, The State The S.C. director of the National Federation of Independent Business continues his organization’s misleading information campaign about the new health-care law (“Replace health law with reforms that work,” Friday). As the president and CEO of the 5,000-member S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce and vice chair of the 150,000-member American
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July 24, 2012 To be filed under “deliberate obfuscation of tax cuts on the wealthy and the health of the American middle class”: Josh Harkinson of Mother Jones reported this past Monday on who the National Federation of Independent Businesses really represents. Surprise, surprise — it turns out they are neither nonpartisan nor do they
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Published on July 24, 2012 By Stephen Largen | The Post and Courier COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s largest health insurer has begun sending out rebate checks to some policy holders because it failed to meet a requirement of the federal health care overhaul. Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina said Monday that checks —
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Published on June 29, 2012 By JOEY HOLLEMAN, The State Small business groups have extremely varied viewpoints on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision backing the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. The National Federation of Independent Business actually joined South Carolina and 25 other states in the court challenge of the law. Thursday’s decision frustrated
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Published on July 7, 2012 By Lillia Callum-Penso, The Greenville News Clemson Elementary third-grade teacher Susan Nunamaker developed the Money Cents for Kids program to teach students how to negotiate costs and develop marketing for the businesses they’ve created. / MYKAL McELDOWNEY/Staff The sounds coming from Susan Nunamaker’s classroom at Clemson Elementary are what you
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Published on July 7, 2012 The Greenville News By Tim Smith, Staff Writer COLUMBIA — When Gov. Nikki Haley announced that she opposes implementing insurance exchanges or expanding Medicaid rolls under the new federal health-care law, it came as little surprise to supporters of the act. The governor has repeatedly criticized it and said it
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