Does your town or city have a Buy Local Intitative or Independent Business Alliance?
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Local First Utah
Balle San Francisco -
Welcome — BALLE Seattle
TAGS Hardware, Cambridge, Massachusetts — BALLE (http://www.livingeconomies.org/entrepreneurs/independant-retail/tags-hardware-cambridge-massachusetts - broken link)
I've noticed that most Buy Local campaigns seem to be a liberal or progressive enterprise. Does anyone else think it's strange that more "progressives" are looking to preserve local economies, while most "conservatives" could seemingly care less?
Here's the Andersonville Study of Retail Economics:
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