Archive for June 27, 2008


Wanted: inner-city supermarkets

Filed under: Articles by Allen Scott — 1 Comment
June 27, 2008
Before the WalMart Supercenter era, community markets where the norm, now with sprawling shopping centers moving out into the burbs, the hometown markets where forced to close up shop.

And yet despite all the ‘change’ things still remain the same. This story shows once again that the small business owner working in his or her own community has the most positive effect on that local economy.

clipped from features.csmonitor.com
A fresh idea brings healthy food to low-income neighborhoods.

Grocer Jeff Brown put a lot of sweat into his ShopRite supermarket in inner-city Philadelphia: He built a pork-free meat room for Muslim customers, stocked the aisles with the Jamaican and African cuisine that neighbors requested, and taught job skills to the hires new to the workforce.

Brown’s ShopRite opened alongside several large stores, creating 900 jobs just in that one neighborhood, he says. “Which means 900 families can buy food and get off of welfare,” Brown says. (Most of his employees live in the local community.)
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Could McCain be a victim of McCain Feingold?

Filed under: Articles by Allen Scott — Leave a comment
June 27, 2008
First it was Obama refusing “public funds” which allows him to raise as much money from as many people as he wants without limitations, and now the Supes have ruled that a multi-billionaire can in effect purchase a political office.

It would appear from this ‘casual observer’ McCain Feingold was an attempt to ‘fix’ elections by controlling which candidate actually has enough money to let their voice be heard while drowning out anyone else.

This is the adverse to what the intent of the law was meant to do, but in all reality I believe it is exactly what the laws sponsors actually intended.

McCain therefore may fall victim to his own sponsored bill.

clipped from www.csmonitor.com

WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Thursday struck down the so-called “millionaire’s amendment” of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance
law, saying it violated free-speech protections.

In a 5-to-4 ruling, the high court said Congress cannot use federal election laws to disadvantage candidates who choose to
use their own money to run for a seat in Congress.

The idea behind the law was to prevent a wealthy candidate from using massive personal spending in a campaign to drown out
the voices of other candidates. It was also intended to counter the impression that seats in Congress can be purchased.

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