{"id":98620,"date":"2018-12-31T21:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T02:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=98620"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:42:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T16:42:25","slug":"%ef%bb%bfstirpe-appointed-chair-of-small-business-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=98620","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffStirpe appointed chair of Small Business Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"222\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Al-Stirpe-150x147.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><figcaption>Al Stirpe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Assemblyman Al Stirpe (D-Cicero) announced that he has been named chair of the Assembly Small Business Committee by Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs a former small-business owner and someone who grew up working in a family restaurant, I know the blood, sweat and tears that go into these ventures,\u201d said Stirpe. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to taking the helm as committee chair so I can expand opportunity, foster entrepreneurship and slash red tape for the folks driving our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since first taking office in 2007, Stirpe has been a strong advocate for New York\u2019s small-business owners. He authored a law creating a two-tiered licensing fee structure for food producers so that small-scale producers aren\u2019t forced to pay the same fee as their larger competitors (Ch. 400 of 2017). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the 2018 legislative session, Stirpe helped pass a state budget that included $500,000 for the Small Business Innovation Research\/Small Business Technology Transfer Technical Assistance Program, which promotes technological advancement and the commercialization of innovations developed through federally funded research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this appointment, the assemblyman hopes to help pave the way for greater opportunities across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Al Stirpe (D-Cicero) announced that he has been named chair of the Assembly Small Business Committee by Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie. \u201cAs a former small-business owner and someone who grew up working in a family restaurant, I know the blood, sweat and tears that go into these ventures,\u201d said Stirpe. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23814,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-state","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}