Wal-Mart and Target are currently building "supercenters," which combine their usual array of merchandise with a full supermarket and numerous specialty services from cut flowers...
Deconstruction has several standard bearers across the United States. This article provides brief case studies and contact information for several of the leading companies.… Read...
Earlier this year, by adopting the State’s first Zero Waste Plan for a Texas community, the City of Austin took an important step to move...
The economic benefits of deconstruction are substantial. One of the biggest challenges to “greening” businesses is overcoming the false perception that environmentally-sound business practices necessarily...
Almost all federal economic development programs now have anti-piracy provisions, which bar aid to a company that is relocating from one state to another. A...
The US Supreme Court’s 1976 decision in Buckley v. Valeo constitutes a central obstacle to effective campaign finace reform. The ruling does this in two...
Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC is the first Supreme Court ruling on contribution limits since since 1976, when in the landmark decision Buckley vs....
Over 80 local governments have passed some form of campaign finance legislation. The National Civic League has compiled an Inventory of Local Reforms of those...
Oregon’s 1994 Ballot Measure 6 amended the state constitution to allow candidates to "use or direct only contributions which originate from individuals who at the...
In 1996 the Alaska Legislature adopted a campaign finance reform law that banned contributions from business and unions and capped campaign contributions at $500 per...
In 2002, Colorado voters approved Amendment 27 by a 2-to-1 margin to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform for state-level political campaigns. A coalition of groups,...
This organization is dedicated to helping enact sweeping campaign finance reform and reduce the role of special interest money in elections. This is their model...
The Vermont clean election law offers a public financing option to candidates running for governor and lieutenant governor in the year 2000, and commissions a...
In 2002 North Carolina’s legislature adopted a measure that provides for public financing of judicial campaigns, as well as a nonpartisan elections system for supreme...