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Idaho roundtables
Site Visit: Advocacy has a Colorful Conversation with Zak! Designs
By Charles Maresca, Director of Interagency Affairs
When we visited the warehouse of Zak! Designs on a hot, 95-degree Spokane day, we were ushered into a cool lobby, with light filtering through a skylight two floors above, the soft…
Site Visit: Wemco ‘Manufactures Productivity’
By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel
On July 12, Advocacy staff visited Wemco, a small manufacturer in Spokane, Wash.
Founded in 1989, the company has 50 employees. It specializes in in-house engineering and manufacturing and…
Site Visit: Saw Mill Complains of Feds Lumbering Around
By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel
On July 14, Assistant Chief Counsel Prianka Sharma and Regional Advocate Apollo Fuhriman visited Vaagen Bros. Lumber, Inc. a lumber saw mill in Colville, Wash. While there, they met with…
Region’s Major Industries Have Their Voices Heard at Roundtables
By Janis Reyes, Assistant Chief Counsel
Coeur d’Alene, a small resort city with a beautiful lake and surrounded by forests, was the setting of the Office of Advocacy’s second Regulatory Reform Roundtable in Idaho. Small businesses from…
Regulatory Roundtables Get to the Coeur of the Matter
By Prianka Sharma, Assistant Chief Counsel
Beautiful Coeur d’Alene was the setting of the second Regional Regulatory Roundtable in Idaho on July 13. Advocacy heard from more than 36 small business owners in various industries who came…
Site Visit: Advocacy Goes Nuts for City Peanut Shop
By Patrick Delehanty, Acting Director of Economic Research/Regulatory Economist
After hosting a Regulatory Reform Roundtable on July 11th in Boise, Idaho, listening to the views of area small businesses, the Office of Advocacy paid a…
Site Visit: Small Farm Brings Big Business for Idaho’s Treasure Valley
By Apollo Fuhriman, Region 10 Advocate
On July 11, Assistant Chief Counsel Prianka Sharma, Regional Advocate Apollo Fuhriman, Acting Director of Economic Research/Regulatory Economist Patrick Delehanty, and Assistant Chief Counsel…
Advocacy Hears From Small Business Owners At Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtable in Boise, Idaho
By Lindsay Abate, Regulatory Economist
Advocacy staff have been traveling across the United States this summer in an effort to hear directly from small businesses about how federal regulations can be reformed or eliminated to reduce…
Idaho and Washington Small Businesses Speak Out against Burdensome Regulations
The Office of Advocacy continued its series of Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables by traveling to the states of Idaho and Washington in the month of July to hear first-hand the concerns of small businesses in those states. In a…