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ILSR Asks Senator Jeffords to More Directly Encourage Refilling in His Senate Bill 2220, The National Beverage Producer Responsibility Act of 2002

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ILSR Asks Senator Jeffords to More Directly Encourage Refilling in His Senate Bill 2220, The National Beverage Producer Responsibility Act of 2002

National legislation that couples beverage container deposits with a minimum recovery rate is long overdue. If passed, Senator Jeffords Senate Bill 2220, the National Beverage...

Homegrown Economics: In Boulder, Local Businesses Stay Ahead of the Chains

Homegrown Economics: In Boulder, Local Businesses Stay Ahead of the Chains

A profile of the first Independent Business Alliance. Plotting the overthrow of the franchised world, bookstore owner David Bolduc and political organizer Jeff Milchen strategize...

Deconstructing Stanton, Nail by Nail

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Deconstructing Stanton, Nail by Nail

By Barbara Ruben Special to The Washington Post Saturday, June 15, 2002; Page H01 Two months ago, Beverly White tore down her home of 39...

With Liberty And Justice For All: A Brief History of the Pledge of Allegiance

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With Liberty And Justice For All: A Brief History of the Pledge of Allegiance

With Liberty And Justice For All: A Brief History of the Pledge of Allegiance By David Morris May 1, 2002 Originally Published in the Minneapolis...

Vancouver Coalition Fights Walmart

Vancouver Coalition Fights Walmart

A coalition of neighborhood, small business, and environmental groups has gathered more than 4,000 petition signatures against a proposed Wal-Mart store in Vancouver, Canada. …...

Wal-Mart Developer’s Tactics Questioned in New Orleans

Wal-Mart Developer’s Tactics Questioned in New Orleans

Rumors of a citizens lawsuit are beginning to circulate in New Orleans less than a month after the city council approved a 200,000 square foot...

Arcata Prohibits Forumula Restaurants

Arcata Prohibits Forumula Restaurants

In mid-May, the city council of Arcata, California voted 4-to-1 to enact a citywide cap on the number formula restaurants. The measure must pass a...

Ocean Beach Planning Board Endorses Formula Business Ban

Ocean Beach Planning Board Endorses Formula Business Ban

Six weeks after an advisory referendum won broad support from residents, the Ocean Beach, California, planning board voted 8-to-4 in early May to recommend that...

San Francisco Mayor Vetoes Big Box Law

San Francisco Mayor Vetoes Big Box Law

San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown vetoed an ordinance to require greater scrutiny of big box development. The measure passed the Board of Supervisors on a...

Austin Independent Business Alliance Takes Off

Austin Independent Business Alliance Takes Off

Steve Bercu, owner of Book People, a large independent bookstore in Austin, Texas, has been increasingly concerned about the decline of the city’s homegrown businesses....

Cooperative Bolsters Independent Lighting Stores

Cooperative Bolsters Independent Lighting Stores

To counter competition from big box retailers, independent lighting stores are banding together in a cooperative called Lighting One. The coop enables members to reduce...

Independent Funeral Homes Rebound

Independent Funeral Homes Rebound

Just a few years ago, industry observers were predicting the demise of independent funeral homes. Four giant companies were buying up thousands of independent mortuaries...

Local Bookstore Files Antitrust Suit Against Chains

Local Bookstore Files Antitrust Suit Against Chains

The now defunct Intimate Bookshop of North Carolina has filed suit against Barnes & Noble and Borders Books alleging that the chains used their market...

Business Forum: Regenerating History

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Business Forum: Regenerating History

Business Forum: Regenerating History By David Morris Originally published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 28, 2002 In the beginning, companies didn’t sell electricity. They...

The Ethanol Enigma

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The Ethanol Enigma

This 2002 piece by David Morris examines how both conservatives and liberals love to hate ethanol and how they might change their minds if they...