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DOE Rule Sparks Concerns with Small Electric Cooperatives

Office of Advocacy Apr 11, 2023

Last month Advocacy staff visited the Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (REC) in Fredericksburg, VA. REC is a member-owned electrical distribution utility, servicing 17,000 connections in 22 Virginia counties. By nature, electric…

Office of Advocacy Appoints Ngozi Bell to Serve as Regional Advocate for Region 3

Office of Advocacy Mar 10, 2023

SBA Number: 23-02 ADV WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Office of Advocacy in the U.S. Small Business Administration is pleased to announce Ngozi Bell has been named Region 3 Advocate. Representing Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia,…

Roundtable Wrap-Ups

“Regulations are an impediment to everything we are trying to do!” Small Businesses in…

Office of Advocacy Sep 20, 2018

The call for help from America’s small businesses continued this month in Princeton, New Jersey, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Poughkeepsie, New York, where the Office of Advocacy held Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables to hear concerns…

Region 3 Advocate Convenes a Meeting of the Minds

Office of Advocacy Mar 6, 2018

By Elmo Rinaldi, Region 3 Advocate In December, I had the opportunity to hold my first roundtable in Washington, D.C. Jerry Pierce, President of The Interamerica Group, offered his office and conference room for the meeting. Arriving early…

FDA – “Wrapped Too Tight”

Office of Advocacy Jan 2, 2018

By Elmo Rinaldi, Region 3 Advocate It’s noteworthy to point out that most companies in the cigar industry qualify as a small business. With FDA’s greater familiarity with the large cigarette industry, they have had a tendency…