All posts tagged "small business"

(Derek Draplin) – Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak signed several “economic justice” bills, including one that will boost...

(Insitute for Justice) – ARLINGTON, VA—The IRS confiscated the entire bank accounts of two small businesses that did nothing illegal. Now those business owners are asking the government to give them their money back. Khalid (“Ken”) Quran, a North Carolina convenience store owner, and Randy Sowers, a Maryland dairy farmer, both work...

(Congressman Joe Heck/The Hill’s Congress Blog) – No state has felt the devastating effects of the Obama...

(Andy Matthews/NPRI) – I’m in beautiful Northern Nevada this week for a number of reasons, one of which, as I mentioned last time, is to officially open NPRI’s new Reno office on Aug. 1. But another reason I’m here is to spend some time meeting with several members of the Institute’s Board...

(Reno, NV) – On Wednesday, “We Did Build This” events will be held in Las Vegas, Sparks, and across the country. President Obama recently said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.” On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, business owners in Nevada and across the country will be launching “We...

(Geoffrey Lawrence/NPRI) – Okay…so maybe it’s not an exact quote, but that’s certainly what I got out of Secretary of State Ross Miller’s comments to the Las Vegas Sun today. Miller is complaining that home-based businesses aren’t paying their “fair share” and should be forced to pay $200 annually for the privilege...

(Sean Whaley/Nevada News Bureau) – A group established by the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) to fight against excessive federal regulations now has 170 members in Nevada and 1,000 nationwide, the organization announced this week. The coalition Small Businesses for Sensible Regulations says its mission is protecting small businesses and American jobs...

NN&V Exclusive (Chuck Muth) – If elected officials really want to stimulate the economy and create jobs,...

NN&V Exclusive (David Mansdoerfer) – Before writing off President Obama’s jobs now speech, I wanted to take...

(Michael Chamberlain/Nevada Business Coalition) – They say the pen is mightier than the sword. A new business in town is finding that paperwork and bureaucracy may defeat firearms as well. The Clark County bureaucratic quagmire is doing its best to frustrate one of the area’s new businesses. A few months ago Wild...

(Michael Chamberlain/Nevada Business Coalition) – Breaking up is hard to do, especially when a union contract is involved. And when your company is worth more to the union dead than alive, they can really cause you problems. A small paving contractor from Elko is fighting off a union’s attempt to shut them...

(Michael Chamberlain/Nevada Business Coalition) – Leave it to Nevada’s unions to protest the few people who are actually creating jobs in this economy. Each day a handful of picketers appear on the sidewalk along Warm Springs Road in front of the Glazier’s grocery store. They trudge back and forth holding their signs,...

(Assemblyman Ed Goedhart) - Some people just can’t stand success. Especially when it’s someone else’s. Or a...