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Small city concerns look a lot like big city concerns in Galena, IL
By: Les Davies, Region 5 Advocate
Galena is a city with a rich heritage woven into the tapestry of early to mid nineteenth century Americana. Lead and silver mining made Galena a boom town in the early 1800s when the city emerged as the…
Small Businesses from Three States Join Advocacy in Dubuque
By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel
On July 19, 2018, Advocacy visited lovely Dubuque, Iowa. Set on the Mississippi river, Dubuque boasts beautiful hills with views of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Given its proximity to these…
Advocacy travels to Tampa to hear from Small Businesses
By Apollo Fuhriman, Region 10 Advocate
At a recent Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtable held in Tampa, Florida, the Office of Advocacy heard from nearly 50 local small businesses about the weight of their federal regulatory burden.…
Jacksonville Small Businesses Join Advocacy to Express Concerns
By Jamie Saloom, Assistant Chief Counsel
On June 7th, Advocacy heard from Jacksonville, Florida area small businesses. Participants shared many of the same concerns we heard from small businesses in Tampa and Orlando earlier in the…
Clouds of Regulations Hover over the Sunshine State: Small Businesses in Florida Talk to Advocacy
Small businesses across Florida are concerned about the number of federal regulations impacting their operations and the burdensome compliance requirements that are weighing them down. These sentiments and more were expressed by individual…
Can’t the Feds and the State Work Together?
By Joe Knilans, Rural Affairs Advocate
The Advocacy team recently visited Florida, not to surf and sit on the beach, but to hear from small business owners in Florida. The Advocacy team stopped in Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville,…
Overregulation Hurts Orlando Small Businesses
By Jamie Saloom, Assistant Chief Counsel
On June 6, 2018 Advocacy convened a regulatory reform roundtable just outside of Orlando, Florida. Small businesses told us that one-size-fits -all policies benefit big business at their expense.…
Georgia Small Businesses Partner with Advocacy to Hold Hot Roundtable
By Nick Ivory, Regional Legislative and Regulatory Manager
Small business owners turned up the heat on burdensome regulations during a small business roundtable hosted by Sigma Thermal, a manufacturing company that designs, engineers,…
The Golden State Shines a Light on Regulatory Issues: “We are So Overregulated!”
By Jason Doré, Assistant Chief Counsel for External Affairs/Director of the Office of Information
California small businesses must overcome a heavy load of often onerous and complex regulatory obstacles at the state and…
County Seat Modesto Puts Advocacy in Regulatory Hot Seat
By David Rostker, Assistant Chief Counsel
Modesto is the county seat and largest city in Stanislaus County, Calif. The local economy is dominated by agriculture. The largest employers include E&J Gallo Winery, Del Monte Foods and a…