Governor suspension of rulemaking a good first step

Today Governor Gregoire issued Executive Order 10-06, which suspends development and adoption of agency rules for the next 12 months. This is a good first step towards alleviating one of the major areas of concern for small businesses as they struggle to survive this economic recession: regulatory overreach. Regulatory reform has been, by-and-large, a little-discussed area of concern for the small business community. Though the small business community and groups like Washington Policy Center have been active in asking for regulatory reform, it gets little play on the public policy stage . . . READ MORE