Posts Tagged ‘ regulations ’

Senate Committee Looks Into Alternative Financing

May 18th, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: Podcasts

Happy Small Business Week!
This weekly ritual small business groveling that emerges from Washington every year is always a time of profound irony for me. It’s tough to take policy makers seriously when they spout off about the manifold wonderfulnesses of small businesses, when the actual economic policies they craft say something very different.
Or, to put [...]



Landrieu’s First Hearing Shows Promise

Feb 2nd, 2009 | By Dawn Rivers | Category: Podcasts

Maybe I am a cock-eyed optimist.
It’s terrible to have to say this but I’m almost afraid to get my hopes up in thinking that maybe Senate Small Business Committee Chairwoman Mary Landrieu is different, less wedded to the idea that bigger is automatically better and that microbusinesses are worth nothing more than lip service.
I’ve [...]