News Small business group blasts stimulus spending By Doug CaldwellCentral Valley Business Times February 17, 2009• Says it shuts out small business• ‘Virtually ignores the very firms that create 97 percent of all new jobs’The stimulus bill signed into law today by...
News Obama Fiddles While Small Businesses Fizzle By James HirsenNewsmax.com February 17, 2009It looks like Hollywood has a bad case of congressional Dem disease.Doctors say the main symptom of the disease is an irrepressible urge to spend somebody else’s money.An...
News Is Obama's SBA a Tool of Big Business? By Dennis RomeroEntrepreneur.com February 9, 2009The American Small Business League has expressed concern that the U.S. Small Business Administration will continue to bow to big rather than small business as President Obama...
News The view from Maine StreetTapped by Obama to run the Small Business Administration, Wall Street veteran Karen Mills will need to move quickly to unlock the cash and assistance needed by struggling businesses - including those By Sara Bridget AuCNNMoney.com...
News The spoils of deregulation: federal agencies accused of awarding contracts intended for small firms to large corporations. By Brittany HutsonBlack Enterprise February 6, 2009WHILE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RESCUES Wall Street, small business owners on Main Street...
News Survey: Most new jobs come from small businessesThe economy picked up 9,000 new jobs in July, according to ADP, thanks to small companies that are hiring even as larger businesses shed workers. By Brandi StewartCNNMoney.com February 5, 2009(Fortune Small...
News Overhaul in the Offing at SBASmall-biz supporters say it's time to make the agency part of the solution, not part of the problem. By David PortEntrepreneur.com February 4, 2009Having positioned himself as a small-business ally on the campaign trail, it didn't...
News SBA pins hopes on venture capitalist By Ambrose ClancyLong Island Business News January 30, 2009Change is good. Change can be frightening. Change is a political slogan.Change is also nothing new to the federal Small Business Administration. Under the Bush...
News Raising Your Profile: SEO Tips for 2009 By Tim Devaney and Tom SteinAllBusiness.com January 30, 2009 It’s the most sought-after real estate in the world: the first page of Google search results. If you market or sell online and your name doesn’t appear there, you...
News Obama seen continuing Bush 'anti-small business' policies By Doug CaldwellCentral Valley Business Times January 28, 2009 • Billions of dollars diverted from small businesses, is charge• ‘I’m very disappointed, very disheartened’Based on initial actions – or...
News Is Obama misleading small businesses? Capital Solutions Bancorp January 27, 2009 The appointment of a venture capitalist to head the SBA and apparently missing statements from his campaign website are leading some to doubt Obama's pledge to small business...
News Small-biz advocacy group concerned about venture capital influence By Alice LipowiczWashington Technology January 27, 2009 Venture capitalists may be gaining influence at the expense of small businesses as a result of President Barack Obama's pick to lead the...
News Congress should defeat plan to hurt small businesses By Daily Tribune StaffDaily Tribune January 25, 2009 Beware of politicians bearing changes in federal policies.More often than not, there is more to their goals than simply streamlining government.That's our...
News Will Federal Contracting Dollars Rise Or Fall? By Marc TracyBizbox by Slate January 23, 2009It's an important question for small businesses. As Independent Street reminds us, and as we noted when we reported that the federal government had failed to fulfill its...
News Small Businesses Want Their Share of New Government Spending By Kelly SporsIndependent Street/Wall Street Journal January 22, 2009 The inauguration balls are over. Small-business owners now want to know: How big a piece will they get out of the new spending...
News The big think: How to fix the SBA By Lloyd Chapman, President, American Small Business LeagueCNNMoney.com January 14, 2009Prescription: Boost funding"There are 27 million small businesses. The budget needs to be pushed up to $5 billion to $10 billion per year....
News American Small Business League cries foul on Obama team By Gary E. SattlerBloggingStocks.com January 5, 2009 A press release that was sent out by the American Small Business League (ASBL) in late December 2007 is pitting American small businesses against the...
News Changing Guard Bodes Well for Small Business -- So Far By Keith GirardAllBusiness.com January 2, 2009 For the past eight years the Small Business Administration (SBA) has been one of the federal government's more hapless agencies. It has been forced to endure...
News Obama Picks VC to Lead SBA By WebCPA staffWebCPA December 22, 2008President-elect Barack Obama has named venture capitalist Karen Mills to lead the Small Business Administration, drawing fire from one small business group.Mills, founding partner of the equity...
News Landrieu to chair Senate small-business committee By Matthew WeigeltFCW.com December 19, 2008Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) will be the new chairwoman of the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee in the next Congress, the senator and the committee have...
News Reality Check: Barack Obama drops windfall tax proposal By Lance R. Haynie The Lance Haynie Blog December 3, 2008It looks like once again Barack Obama is shelving one of his landmark proposals. Not too long ago Barack Obama had reality set in when he decided he...
News Neeeever mind (again!): Obama abandons windfall profits tax By Michelle MalkinThe Michelle Malkin Blog December 3, 2008Reality bites Barack Obama in the ass again.Here he was in May/June of this year, vowing to punish the oil companies and redistribute the...
News Obama quietly drops windfall tax proposal By David Ivanovich Houston Chronicle December 3, 2008President-elect Barack Obama has quietly shelved a proposal to slap oil and natural gas companies with a new windfall profits tax.An aide for the transition team...
News Obama Apparently Drops Windfall Profits Tax Proposal By Ronald BaileyWall Street Journal/ www.reason.com December 3, 2008During the campaign, President-elect Barack Obama promised to stick it to Big Oil with a windfall profits tax. At the time, reason explained...
News Obama shelves oil company tax after price fall-aide By eff Mason and Tom DoggettGuardian.co.uk December 3, 2008 CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama is not planning to implement a windfall profit tax on oil companies because...
News Obama Abandons Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies; Liberals Smell a Corporate Rat By Jake TapperABC News: Political Punch December 3, 2008 Shortly after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination in June, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told voters "I'll make...
News Farewell to the Windfall Profits Tax By Ken SilversteinHarper's Magazine December 3, 2008That was fast.“I’ll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we’ll use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and...
News Obama And Oil Companies: Did The President-Elect Just Break His First Campaign Promise? By Nick BaumannHuffington Post December 3, 2008Mother JonesOn the campaign trail, Obama railed against big oil companies. He often criticized John McCain for backing tax cuts...
News O. Drops Windfall Profits Tax for Oil, Gas By Dollars & SenseDollars & Sense December 3, 2008From our friends at the American Small Business League (of which we are members, believe it or not; it was partly because of having published this article):Obama Backs...
News Nixed: No Windfall Tax on Big Oil from Obama By Keith JohnsonWall Street Journal December 3, 2008 Political theorists have long worried about the “tyranny of rising expectations.” What about the tyranny of dashed expectations?President-elect Obama already riled...