Far from becoming obsolete, public libraries still operate at the heart of their communities. In addition, they’ve taken on new roles such as"Guide to the...
A citizens group has filed legal appeals and staged demonstrations in an attempt to stop Wal-Mart from building a megastore near the ancient pyramids of...
The New Economics Foundation’s Alternative Mansion House Speech, given by Stacy Mitchell in May 2005. … Read More
What does it take to get a group of polite Midwesterners riled up enough to propose an amendment to their state constitution? Michigan legislators can...
(The following article appeared in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Sunday January 30, 2000.) "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age." Thatinsight...
Just as CSAs have played a key role in the rebirth of small-scale farms, so too are new community-supported enterprise models helping to launch a...
Thanks in large part to the Bank of North Dakota, community banks and credit unions are much more robust in North Dakota than in other...
Commentary by Neil Seldman Published at E Magazine.com Alexander Cockburn is a long-time firebrand in The Nation magazine, and before that the Village Voice. Lately he’s bent...
Walmart’s expansion is making our food system more concentrated and industrialized than ever before. … Read More
On 10 July as many as 500 scavengers died in one of Metro Manila’s teeming landfills. Intensive rains loosened a hill of municipal solid waste...
Hemp Comes of Age by David Morris January 29, 1997 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press As of January 23, 1997 growing industrial hemp...
Bananas, Justice and Free Trade by David Morris Institute for Local Self-Reliance May 6, 1999 – published in St. Paul Pioneer Press Three planetary corporations–Del...
Business Forum: NAFTA helped increase flow of illegal immigrants by David Morris Originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 7, 2006 The debate about...
We are running a guest commentary today. Eric Null is a third-year law student at Cardozo Law School in New York City. He is passionate...
Most policymakers don’t imagine that their economic development decisions will affect such things as voter turnout or the prevalence of chronic disease. But a growing...