Make a Difference, Buy Local
State Rep. Karla Drenner asks people to shop local this holiday season.
It’s easy to get caught up in the rush of after Thanksgiving, Black Friday sales followed by the ease and enticement of cyber Monday discounts. The trend of internet shopping and overnight urban camping in front of retailers entrances is perhaps an irreversible reality of today’s consumerism. Yet, last year ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer launched a series, “Made in America,” that focused on American manufacturing and our economy. The series made me think about possible economic implications for Georgia. What if our state and local governments, along with our school systems, leveraged their purchasing power to favor Georgia and local businesses? Imagine the impact to our economy and the jobs this could create. While there is little we …
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John Wolfinger
5:43 am on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
This Buy Local campaign is important all year long - not just in this Christmas season. Our local VaHi commercial areas are basically all full of viable businesses - the one exception being the still-empty storefronts in the old Hilan Theater building. Supposedly there is an interested buyer for this building and maybe these high-profile empty spaces will soon be filled too. Our business … more ›