Five Costly Mistakes Small Business Owners Make — and How to Fix Them I was on the phone with a bakery owner in Roanoke who had just lost a week’s worth of orders because a key supplier failed to deliver. She summed it up bluntly: “I ran my business the way I run the kitchen…

Virginia House Bill 21, often referred to simply as HB21, is the kind of measure that can sound technical at first glance but carries a clear legislative purpose: to change how a specific part of state policy works. Like many bills introduced in the Virginia General Assembly, its intent is not to create a broad…