Houston Chronicle, September 25, 2013 The soon-to-open Sam’s Club in west Houston is not that much bigger than the one it will replace five miles away. But company officials say it will give customers a much nicer place to shop. The Sam’s that is closing on Thursday, at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Texas 6, … Read More
Washington Post, September 17, 2013 They may not realize it, but starting today, some high-end Internet subscribers in Chattanooga, Tenn., will turn on their computers and start browsing the Web at a gigabit per second — 10 times the speeds they’re used to. By month’s end, some 39,000 area residents will see their mid-tier connections become … Read More
Baltimore Business Journal, September 5, 2013 Broadband Internet, at its core, comes down to a pipe buried three feet underground and snaked with fiber-optic cable. It has also emerged as one of the most hotly debated issues of the information age, subject to a tangle of federal regulations and millions of dollars in telecommunications industry lobbying. … Read More
Jackson Free Press, September 4, 2013 On a recent trip to the William F. Winter Archives and History Building, a couple of enterprising reporters dug up some old pictures and articles about Capitol Street. A picture dated Jan. 20, 1967, taken from the West Street intersection looking east, shows a bustling business district with independent businesses … Read More
Salon, August 31, 2013 “Whether you’re on the road or just cruising around town, your favorite McDonald’s menu items are never far away.” So boasts the McDonald’s Restaurant Locator, and a glance at a distribution map of franchises in the United States proves the point. Population centers burn brightly with the Golden Arches; even the sparsely … Read More
Shreveport Times, August 25, 2013 A few years ago, it took much longer to book a child into Caddo Parish’s juvenile detention system than it does today. That’s because officers frequently faced technical difficulties with the computer program used to process children into the system. And they would have to wait, sometimes for hours, director Clay … Read More
WNUR-FM, Chicago – This is Hell, show, August 24, 2013 Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, where she directs an initiative on independent business. The Institute of Local Self-Reliance has, according to their website, “Since 1974, ILSR has championed local self-reliance, a strategy that underscores the need for humanly scaled … Read More
Business Week, August 22, 2013 There are 3,200 utilities that make up the U.S. electrical grid, the largest machine in the world. These power companies sell $400 billion worth of electricity a year, mostly derived from burning fossil fuels in centralized stations and distributed over 2.7 million miles of power lines. Regulators set rates; utilities get … Read More
The Guardian, August 7, 2013 Walmart has agreed to improve safety conditions at more than 2,800 stores in 28 US states after inspectors discovered “repeat and serious” health and safety violations at a store in Rochester, New York. The agreement, which included a $190,000 fine, was negotiated by the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration … Read More
