Elections and Voting

Barack 2.0

There has been a great deal of coverage surrounding the use of social media in the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Much of it has focused on how vi...  Read more

Small Business as Citizen

Last week, the National Federation of Independent Businesses issued a statement describing its array of initiatives this election year, from voter registr...  Read more

Entrepreneur-Friendly Governors Sail to Victory

Governors whose policies align with entrepreneurs' top priorities were re-elected by wide margins.  Read more

Pacs Pack Congress With Business Backers

Those interested in seeing small business supporters elected to Congress have two national avenues to channel their political contributions -- the Nationa...  Read more

Poll Worker Shortage

On Election Day, national polls will be short at least 250,000 workers possibly leading to longer waits for voters, overtaxed volunteers, and delays in co...  Read more

Upstarts: Voting Systems

In the nonpartisan spirit of entrepreneurship, some companies offer ingenious responses to last year's unpleasantness at the polls.  Read more

House Race Sealed

Nov. 3, 2004 --While the presidential election still remains in limbo this morning, the House of Representatives' future has been sealed b...  Read more

Bill Van Ness's Instinct Was to Fight the Plan to Build A School Next to His Factory

But could he beat eminent domain?  Read more

Inc. 500 CEO drops Senate bid

Gary Hirshberg the CEO of Stonyfield Farm has decided not to run for the U.S. Senate next year, the Boston Globe ...  Read more

How I Did It: John Zogby

John Zogby backed into his career as a pollster, and for a time had to cede the national spotlight to bigger names. Now he has his sights on becoming the Gal...  Read more

Your Civic Duty, As Well As Savvy Marketing

The benefits of volunteering your business as a polling place.  Read more

Clip File: Republicans Warm Up To Climate Change

Al Gore's Nobel win may have some Republicans crying politics, but an ...  Read more

Politics Still a Workplace Taboo

The primaries may be a hot topic these days, but not around the water cooler, a survey finds.  Read more

Election Spending: The Chamber Brings The Big Guns

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is apparently not satisfied with the Republican Party's electoral efforts. Per the Read more

The Union Label

With Labor Day come and gone, union endorsements are piling up. So who's zoomin' who? Hillary Clinton collected two big endorsements last week, fr...  Read more

Warner's Senate Bid

Mark Warner, the wireless entrepreneur who served as Virginia's governor, announced today in a web video that he intends to run for the U.S. Senate seat b...  Read more

The Small-business Mayor

Art Agnos wasn't given much chance when he declared his candidacy for mayor of San Francisco in March 1987. A former social worker turned state assemblym...  Read more

For a print shop owner in Springfield, Mass., business was not exactly fun and games. During the 1860 Presidential race, his portraits of the clean-shaven...  Read more

Small is Big in This Economy

A report released by the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy last week reveal...  Read more

Did The NFIB's Campaign Gamble Pay Off?

This year, the National Federation of Independent Business put up $1.6 million to support a handful of Republican running for re-election or election to C...  Read more

Small Businesses Get Nod in Republican National Convention

Sept. 3, 2004 -- Three speakers at the Republican National Convention in New York City Tuesday night singled out small businesses, althou...  Read more

What's The Difference Between Politicians And Cottage Cheese?

Not much, at least from a marketing standpoint. And that's where David Sawyer comes in.  Read more

Businesses Asked to Limit Political Donations

The Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce has issued a voluntary cap on campaign contributions, to help level the playing field for small businesses.  Read more

Democrats Debate: Brave New Format, Same Old Answers

You would've had a hard time finding nuggets of specific interest to the small business community in last night's Read more

Unstatesmanlike Acts;

From giving away land in Kansas to building ski resorts in Kentucky some public officials will pay just about any price for a few jobs.  Read more

Feds Defend Trade Pacts

American small businesses can help boost the economy by expanding into foreign markets, officials say.  Read more

The Small Business Debate That Wasn't

The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has a dream ...  Read more

We'd Been Meaning to Ask the Same Thing

Inc. receives query regarding the absence of any Arkansas companies on the 1992 Inc. 500.  Read more

RudyCare

'We've got to solve our health care problem with American principles, not the principles of socialism,' Rudy Giuliani told an audience in Rochester, New H...  Read more

Indiana's Disenfranchised Young Voters

The Center for Information on Civic Learning and Engagement ( Circle ) reports that "at leas...  Read more

Three Down, Six Lives To Go

Miracles do happen -- especially when a governor-cum-Presidential candidate is on your side. That's what workers at Morse Cutting Tool's New Bedford, Mas...  Read more

A Year in Tweets

A small sampling of Twitter CEO Evan Williams's personal tweets during 2008:  Read more

How McCain Funds Health Reform: By Cutting Medicare

One lingering question surrounding John McCain's health care proposals had been how he would pay for his ambitious reform. Well now the campaign has answe...  Read more

Iraq-Bound SBA Official Eyes Congress

Pledging to invest in the nation's small businesses, a former Small Business Administration official who was recently recalled to active duty in Iraq is m...  Read more

Inc. 500 Company Fends Off Lawsuits, Customer Complaints

International Profit Associates has also come under scrutiny because of its political contributions.  Read more

Business Owners Changing Sides?

As they head to the polls, many entrepreneurs are reconsidering party allegiances, a survey finds.  Read more

Grist: A Passport to America

How blue staters and red staters can learn to communicate and do business.  Read more

Playing Politics

It can be very tempting to try to grease the political wheels. But are campaign donations a sound investment?  Read more

From the Editor of Inc.: Are Entrepreneurs Really Liberal?

A CEO by the name of Mike Miller sent me an e-mail last week ribbing me about Inc. 's political bias, which he says is liberal. The latest exampl...  Read more

Swing States See Weak September Job Growth

Nov. 2, 2004 --While over two-thirds of all states reported employment gains in September, those gains were all but wiped out by the compa...  Read more