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Minding our Business: Rewards to Shop Local?

Minding our Business: Rewards to Shop Local?

| April 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

I just signed on for the Five Points plan at Heidelberg Café. Why not? They didn’t ask for my email address, so no spam, and they don’t require a commitment, and after a few visits, I might win a free iced-tea. Why not? My Zinc card is well worn and in my wallet at all [...]

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Village Matters

Village Matters

| July 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

 Changing the baby with the bathwater   Remember the days when city hall’s offices would close for lunch?  So did Laguna Lumber. I hear that Laguna Lumber would also close for two weeks in the summer to allow its employees to have a summer vacation. And of course, until Ganahl bought it, it was never open [...]

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Turning Out the Vote

Turning Out the Vote

| October 29, 2010 | 0 Comments

Editor,   The 2010 election isn’t about Obama or Bush. It’s about fear. It’s about a nation fearful that its grip upon world domination has slipped. It has. The world is flat. It’s hard to imagine a future in which China continues making better goods more profitably than we do, that India can offer cheaper [...]

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