Published on October 28, 2012 Editorial in Charleston Post & Courier If SCE&G has its way, its average customer will pay $141.73 per month. That’s 42.4 percent more than customers of Duke Energy, 40.6 percent more than customers of Progress Energy and 25.8 percent more than Santee-Cooper customers. SCE&G customers should be outraged at the […]
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Published on October 17, 2012 By Frank Knapp, Jr., President and CEO of South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce | The Hill One of the highlights of last night’s presidential debate was moderator Candy Crowley’s real-time fact-checking about when President Barrack Obama first used the word “terror” in reference to the murders in Benghazi.
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Published on September 13, 2012 By Angelia Davis, The Greenville News Being an entrepreneur has helped Clint Tucker pay off his car, his wife’s car, his motorcycle and the home he lives in. Being an entrepreneur without health insurance could cause him to lose it all. Like other small business owners in today’s economy, Tucker
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Posted on September 6, 2012 Frank Knapp discussed President Obama’s impact on small business with Neil Cavuto on Fox Business News. Video: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1826769344001/obamas-impact-on-small-business/#sp=show-clips
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Published on September 6, 2012 By Julia Hawes, The Progressive Pulse CHARLOTTE — Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) looked to an unlikely source of inspiration when speaking to a crowd of business leaders at the Democratic National Convention on the importance of building sustainable businesses and communities. That source was his father — a preacher whom
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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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