March 2012

Regulatory Uncertainty

Mounting evidence shows adverse economic impact.

Celebrating Champions of Small Business

Seventy-five small businesses earn the 2012 DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year award.

February 2012 Quick Poll Results

Opinion

Readers Comment on Keystone

Capital Roundup - March 2012

Heard In and Around the Chamber

President Harding Addressed the Chamber in 1923

President Warren G. Harding’s address to the U.S. Chamber on the final day of its 10th annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 18, 1922, was the first documented presidential radio broadcast.

Animal Protection Law Goes Too Far

A D.C. law, the Wildlife Protection Act of 2010, requires that rats and other vermin not be killed but captured, preferably in families; no glue or snap traps can be used; and the rodents must be relocated. The law has drawn criticism from Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who worries that the law may result in entire rodent “families” being relocated across the Potomac River into Virginia.

How-To

Top Technology Trends

Last month, I wrote about five technology trends that will impact SMBs (small and medium businesses) in 2012. Here are five more.

Profiles

A Pipeline to Jobs and Development

John Meyer isn’t involved in the oil or gas industry. He doesn’t own a pipeline or construction business. But as the owner of Office Products Center in Winner, South Dakota, Meyer knows that his state needs jobs, and that the influx of workers and dollars generated by the Keystone XL pipeline expansion from Canada to the Gulf Coast would energize his state and region.

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