Podcast: Landrieu’s First Hearing Shows Promise

Maybe I am a cock-eyed optimist.
It’s terrible to have to say this but I’m almost afraid to get my hopes up in thinking that maybe Senate Small Business Committee Chairwoman Mary Landrieu is different, less wedded to the idea that bigger is automatically better and that microbusinesses are worth nothing more than lip [...]

Podcast: Small Business Needs Voice On The Inside

Wow. You know, the most striking thing about this week’s news for me was the surprisingly poor showing of the Advocacy’s r3 initiative. In its second year out, it generated only 38 nominations of rules that small business owners believe should be reviewed and revised or removed.
As much as small business owners complain about [...]

Have you submitted your nominations for regulatory reform?

Here’s a reminder for you: the deadline to submit your least favorite and most onerous regulations to the SBA Office of Advocacy’s Regulatory Review and Reform (r3) initiative is December 31, 2008. That’s one week from today.
I’ve been writing about r3 off and on for months now (see, this is why it pays to subscribe [...]

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