This week a handful of Republican and Democratic Senators in Columbia and Washington found common ground on two important issues. In Columbia 15 Senators of both parties have introduced legislation to allow a third party to finance and own solar panels on a home or commercial building and sell the…
Companies need help to nurture growth, they say
Published February 12, 2012 By Jenny Munro, The Greenville News, jmunro@greenvillenews.com Small businesses — those with 100 or fewer employees — make up 97 percent of South Carolina’s businesses and employ about 65 percent of the workforce, but sometimes their particular needs go unnoticed Also, small businesses have been leading…
Anticompetitive health insurance practices
One of the most popular parts of the new federal health care law is the establishment of the state insurance exchanges—large pools of customers for which insurance companies would compete to sign up for health insurance. Leveraging large numbers of customers to drive down insurance premiums is a concept loved…