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The Hometown Advantage Bulletin
The Hometown Advantage Bulletin is a free monthly email newsletter reporting on efforts nationwide to stop chain store proliferation and support locally owned, independent retail businesses. Learn about land use policies and other tools that can protect the character and vitality of your hometown. Find out how other communities are bucking the "big box" retail trend and encouraging small-scale, homegrown businesses - and why this approach is proving far more beneficial to the local economy. Plus, news on e-commerce, independent business alliances, development subsidies, antitrust, and all the latest resources.
All of the articles from past issues of The Hometown Advantage Bulletin are on-line! Browse the archive by date, location, or subtopic.
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Obtain Permission - Articles in The Hometown Advantage Bulletin are copyrighted and may not be reproduced or distributed without permission from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance.
Obtaining permission is easy. - Please contact Stacy Mitchell at smitchell@ilsr.org or 612-379-3815. Let us know which article you'd like to use and how you plan to publish or distribute it. For grassroots groups and small nonprofit organizations we generally allow stories to be reprinted and distributed at no cost. Reprint fees may apply for larger publications and commercial media outlets.
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