NFIB Nevada State Director Tray Abney joined Bryan Wachter, senior vice president of the Retail Association of Nevada, on March 5 to discuss some issues of importance to small businesses. The half-hour-long interview occurred on the Nevada Newsmakers program, which runs on the Reno’s The CW, my LVTV in Las Vegas, and on KOH-AM 780 News Talk radio. Topics covered included:

• extension of the Small Business Deduction in the federal tax code
• Credit Card Competition Act
• retail theft
• grocery chain mergers
• Gov. Joe Lombardo’s record-setting 75 vetoes in the last session of the Legislature.

Sampling of Other Media Appearances and Comments from Abney

• Las Vegas Sun, R&D tax rule threatens the innovation of small businesses

• Nevada Appeal, Small Saturday event features downtown businesses

• Kevin Wall Show, AM670 Radio, State Director Tray Abney discusses politics with Kevin Wall

• NBC 3News, Las Vegas, Workers, employers don’t expect big impacts from minimum wage increase

• Las Vegas Review-Journal, New minimum wage begins July 1

• Associated Press, Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the U.S.

• Northern Nevada Business Weekly, Tray Abney named state director of NFIB