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Necessary reading for today: (humorous!) A Day’s Worth of Facts to Get You Through Wikipedia’s 24-Hour Blackout. Since many of you are rightly outraged by the proposed legislation better known as SOPA...
View ArticleHarry Reid Cancels Senate Debate Over Protect IP Act
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office just released a statement explaining that Protect IP Act (PIPA), a contentious, heavily-lobbied bill that was supposed to be debated and voted on in the...
View ArticleListen local: Growing
We’re dancing while we’re working. What better way to usher in a Monday than by listening to Grow Radio? What? You don’t know about Grow Radio.[Stunned silence.] We want you to not just know of Grow,...
View Article“Hamazon”, Localism Link Love
We know lots of people use a big internet company that rhymes with Hamazon. We used to frequent it, as well. Lots of inventory, low prices… But we started thinking: at what cost? We tried asking local,...
View ArticleIndie businesses–by the numbers (or, why local?!)
Number of new independent bookstores that have opened since 2005: 437 Increase since 2002 in the number of small specialty food stores: 1,414 Increase since 2002 in the number of small farms:...
View ArticleIndie news
Great story about a retiring grocer who declined lucrative buy-out opportunities and sold the business to his employees instead. The life of today’s chain retail workers. What the Wal-Mart strikers...
View ArticleWhat you’re searching
Here are some of the search terms that led folks to our blog over the past 90 days: indie gainesville local news source gville vinyl gainesville fl lennie kesl gainesville ethical businesses french...
View ArticleCooperation Festival 2013: a celebration of local food, music and communit
Swallowtail Farm and Citizens Co-op will team up to present Cooperation Festival on November 16th! The Cooperation Festival will be a celebration of local food, music, and community. The event will run...
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