Regional Outreach

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate I had the pleasure of meeting with dozens of groups of small business owners in 2018 in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Gathering several businesses in a room and hearing from…

By Marina DeWit, Region 9 Advocate In the southwest corner of Arizona is Yuma County, the nation’s third largest vegetable producer. There are roughly 230,000 acres of agricultural land with rich soil, almost daily sunshine, and the…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy traveled extensively throughout Region 6 in 2018, listening to the regulatory concerns of small businesses in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. We were honored…

By Marina DeWit, Region 9 Advocate While working as an aerospace engineer, Frank DeSomma, a sport shooter, wanted to do something different and apply his creativity to the mechanical design of a firearm without limitations imposed by the…

By Marina DeWit, Region 9 Advocate As a district manager for a large corporation, James Bernau was spending a lot of time away from his family in Phoenix, AZ and wanted a change. His dream was to own a business where his creativity and…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy was honored to participate in Baton Rouge Entrepreneurship Week on November 13 and 14. The eighth annual “BREW” conference featured a whole lot more than coffee. It was a series of…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate The Office of Advocacy returned to Tulsa, Oklahoma on October 29 and October 30 to meet with Native American small business owners and companies that conduct business with American Indian tribes.…

By Bruce LeVell, Region 4 Advocate It was a great start to the month of October as I brought business leaders together at Grub Burger in Atlanta, Georgia. Grub Burger’s owner hosted the small business forum on October 6, 2018. Grub…

By Christine Myers, Region 2 Advocate Hundreds of entrepreneurs with pretty quirky ideas have grown their companies and their pocketbooks by appearing on the famed reality TV show, "Shark Tank." As a contestant, you have to run the…

By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate I previously wrote about comments we received from Lubbock regarding agriculture, livestock, pesticides, ranching, trucking and trade. Let’s examine additional comments that we received from other…