Community-Owned Stores Provide Alternative to Chains

Date: 1 Apr 2004 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

RKG concluded that Middlebury consumers are spending nearly $7 million elsewhere each year and recommended that the city stem the leakage by enticing Wal-Mart to build a supercenter. But many Middlebury residents refuse to accept the inevitability of the low-wage retailing giant. They have their own ideas about solving Middlebury’s dilemma. They want to open a community-owned department store in the center of town.… Read More

Corvallis Business Alliance Urges Residents to Shop Locally

Date: 1 Apr 2004 | posted in: Retail | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Three years ago, after learning that Borders Books & Music planned to open an outlet in Corvallis, Oregon, Jack Wolcott, who has owned a local bookstore, Grass Roots Books & Music, for more than thirty years, contacted Bob Baird of The Book Bin and several other local business owners whose stores were likely to be affected by the chain. They began meeting, at first discussing a possible legal challenge to Borders and ultimately deciding instead to organize local businesses and launch a public education effort.… Read More

Report Finds Wal-Mart’s Low Wages Cost Taxpayers Millions

Date: 1 Apr 2004 | posted in: Retail | 1 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Taxpayers are picking up the tab for Wal-Mart’s low wages and meager benefits, according to a new congressional report. Prepared by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and released by Rep. George Miller in February, the report concludes that the federal government is providing an average of $2,100 annually in public assistance per Wal-Mart employee. … Read More

Folly of running government as a business

Date: 3 Mar 2004 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Folly of running government as a business by David Morris Originally published in Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 3, 2004 Conservatives believe government should be run like a private business. They’re wrong. Now Minnesota is paying a stiff price for their mistake. By law, a private corporation must strive to maximize the economic return to a handful … Read More

Gimme Shelter

Date: 17 Feb 2004 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Gimme Shelter by David Morris Originally published in The Minneapolis Observer, February 17, 2004 Politics involves making choices. This legislative session we’re making choices about how to spend some three quarters of a billion dollars.  The menu is largely restricted to constructing shelters(buildings) of one sort or another. It gladdens me to see how much our … Read More

Cruising the Ethanol Highway

Date: 15 Feb 2004 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Cruising the Ethanol Highway Hybrid cars using plant-based fuel and electricity could save huge amounts of gas. Hydrogen is no answer now. by David Morris Originally published in the Los Angeles Times, February 15, 2004 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared his support for a “hydrogen highway.” By 2010 he wants hydrogen fueling stations on all of … Read More

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