Advocacy Visits Lubbock, TX
By Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate
The Office of Advocacy conducted a small business regulatory forum in Lubbock, Texas on August 29. The Five Star Lubbock Chamber of Commerce hosted the event in conjunction with the SBA Lubbock-West…
Past Event Announcement: Please Join Us In NJ, PA and NY for Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables
Please join us in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York as we continue our roundtable road trip across America to hear from you!
Advocacy is hosting small business roundtables in order to hear, firsthand, from small businesses facing…
Advocacy Attends 2018 Indian Country Business Summit in Oklahoma
By: Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate
The Office of Advocacy recently visited the Indian Country Business Summit in Norman, Oklahoma, to hear from area small businesses about their federal regulatory burdens. Rhett Davis, Region 6 Advocate,…
Putting on the Brakes at 50 in Ohio
By Les Davies, Region 5 Advocate
We’ve all been there – you're driving down that straight highway, and the speed limit seems ridiculously low. You would like to go faster, but you also know the consequences: a speeding ticket from a nice…
Natural Disasters Raise Concerns for California Small Businesses
By Marina DeWit, Region 9 Advocate
While in Los Angeles, Advocacy visited the California Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz). This organization was created to serve as the State of California’s leader for…
Letter to EPA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Definition of “Waters of the United States”-…
August 13, 2018
On July 12, 2018 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) published a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking titled: Definition of “Waters of the United States”-Recodification…
Meeting with Small Business Owners and Business Groups in Mississippi
By Bruce LeVell, Region 4 Advocate
As the Region 4 Advocate for the SBA Office of Advocacy, it was a pleasure to have some students from the University of Southern Mississippi come and listen to the discussion. Dr. Faye Gilbert, The…
The Twins Want to Know – Who Regulates the Regulators?
By Les Davies, Region 5 Advocate
What do you learn when you visit the thirteenth largest economy in the country and the second largest in the Midwest behind Chicago? When the area you visit is the second largest manufacturer of medical…
Site Visit: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel
On August 9, 2018 Assistant Chief Counsels Jamie Belcore, Bruce Lundegren, and Prianka Sharma met with rangers from the National Park Service (NPS) at the Florissant Fossil Beds National…
Advocacy has a Listening Ear for Small Business Owners in Mississippi
By Bruce LeVell, Region 4 Advocate
On August 8, 2018, I went on a small business listening tour to Gulfport and Biloxi and met with several small business owners.
In Gulfport, I heard firsthand the stories of how small business owners…