Shifting even a modest amount of consumer spending from chains to locally owned businesses would have a major impact on the West Michigan economy, according...
During the first week of July, over 40 local business alliances across the country celebrated Independents Week, an annual event that draws public attention to...
Originally published in the Times Union. The Capital Region’s future would be much better served by fostering the growth of locally owned businesses, rather than...
A new study commissioned by Local First Arizona reports that a purchasing contract with an independent local supplier recirculates three times as much money in...
The American Booksellers Association’s January 2008 Winter Institute conference featured a roundtable discussion with authors Bill McKibben, Stacy Mitchell, and Michael Shuman, who talked about...
State lawmakers are now considering a bill, the Informed Growth Act, that would give all Maine communities a process for evaluating the costs and benefits...
A new online database created by the Austin Independent Business Alliance (AIBA) will help local entrepreneurs find space for their businesses and give property owners...
This talk was sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and given at Book Expo America, an industry trade show, in Washington, D.C. on May 19,...
Despite an expensive PR campaign, residents of Wayland, Massachusetts, rejected a developer’s plans to build a large "town center" retail development during a special town...
In an effort to create more capital for local business loans and community development, the city of Santa Cruz, California, has shifted nearly $600,000 in...
A new study has concluded that additional chain retail expansion on Cape Cod would undermine the region’s economy. … Read More
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has presented its 2005 Main Street Civic Leadership Award to the New Rules Project, a program of the Institute...
Newsstand owners in New York City have filed a legal challenge to a new law that would transfer ownership of the city’s 300 independent newsstands...
A new report prepared for the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission concludes that retail development costs cities more in public services than it generates in revenue....
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case early next year that could set new limits on the ability of cities to condemn...