Jim Place, a salty investment adviser, is skeptical of the political economy run by Uncle. In the hour prior to our interview in his office in a Brainerd business …
It is often laid against corporate giants that they destroy local commercial ecocultures with their big boxes and their ubiquitous neon signs. These accusations often come from people who …
“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” — Martin Luther ‡ For all my talk about local economy for Chattanooga — and that …
This four-minute video shows how robots run much of the Volkswagen factory. It is the nature of a large enterprise that as scale increases, its perspective shifts into the …
Above, Michael Shuman talks about developing local stock exchanges. I am willing to concede that perhaps we are wrong about the idea of local economy and are perhaps overestimating …
Have you wondered about feeling “loyal” to your hometown and the basis of it? You do not care greatly about its history. You are not an avid follower of …
A family-run bicycle shop founded in 1998 is pedaling forward in low gear up a steady grade and a bit of recession-blown headwind. Suck Creek Cycle is pressing ahead, …
Andrae McGary, a Chattanooga city councilman, is seeking to be elected state senator. He is optimistic about the uses of the state in transforming society in keeping with Catholic …