October 2005

by Susan Bee

Many local people want a healthy local economy in which hard-working people, operating within a free market, can succeed. They want good jobs paying a living wage and providing health-care benefits. They do not want companies to violate environmental or labor laws or to infringe on employees' and customers' civil rights. Further, they like, and want to support, local and independent family-owned businesses. They believe in democracy: a system in which those affected by the rules make the rules. They believe in the right of self determination: a community's right to decide what it . . .