The CRIBA Blog :: Live Local, Buy Local

The Times Union Newspaper this morning is reporting that The Business Council of NYS (a fine organization) has started a hotline to “help its small-business members cut through state and local red tape.” Need we say more about the climate for small and medium sized business in this region? SMB operators rarely have time to spend fighting government for answers to the many questions posed by the near-byzantine set of laws and regulations which frame the environment in which they operate. Every hour spent in those efforts is an hour that either can’t be spent growing and nurturing their business, or – more likely – it is an hour burned on a night or weekend which might be otherwise spent.

So, at the very least, even if you can’t change the laws and regulations of state and local governments, frequent your local independent businesses. That’s our core message. That’s our only message.