By Patrick McGrady Special to The Dagger Starting on Sunday, August 14, Maryland citizens are granted a week of tax-free shopping! Well, not really. During the 2007 regular session of the general Assembly (probably as a warm-up to the largest taxes in Maryland history– see the last two weeks posts here and here) the legislature […]
Andrew Klein, Marshall Klein and New Klein’s ShopRite in Baltimore City; Recognized by Michelle Obama as Supporting Access to Healthy Food
From Klein’s ShopRite of Maryland: Andrew P. Klein, President of Klein’s ShopRite of Maryland, and Marshall J. Klein, Vice-President of Operations of Klein’s ShopRite, were recognized by First Lady Michelle Obama at a White House ceremony on Wednesday, July 20, celebrating nationwide commitments from major food retailers to open grocery stores that provide healthy, affordable […]
Gessner: “…It is Hard to Blame Walmart for Considering a New Store on Land with Proper Zoning for a New Store”
From John J. Gessner: The following is a letter to the editor I wrote to the Aegis in response to their editorial of Wednesday April 13,2011 about the rumored construction of a new Wal Mart store in Bel Air. So far, the Aegis has refused to print my letter. I thought you might be interested […]
Defining Local: Benefits of Keeping it Local are Simply Stated, Putting them into Practice is Multi-Layered Challenge
By Fran Johnson, publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine We’ve seen the commercials and heard the slogans urging us to Shop Local, Eat Local, and Support Your Local Community. The arguments for Keeping it Local are simply stated: • Purchasing from locally-owned shops serves as an economic stimulus, helps grow other businesses and contributes to the local […]
Massive Holiday Traffic Jam in Constant Friendship Traps Drivers for Hours
The Constant Friendship shopping district in Abingdon turned into a constant backup Thursday, with hundreds of drivers trapped for several hours in a less-than-friendly traffic jam and overwhelming the county’s 911 call center. The backup stretched along Constant Friendship Boulevard, from the Wal-Mart at the intersection with Tollgate Road, to Target and back toward BJ’s […]
Making Sense of Keeping it Local
By Fran Johnson, publisher, Harford’s Heart Magazine The benefits of Keeping it Local are familiar to us all by now: – supporting the local economy by retaining a larger percentage of our spending dollars in the community – helping to create jobs and fund more public services through local tax revenues – providing community development […]
Keeping It Local: Harford’s “Buy Local” Campaign Requires Shift In How We Think About Food
By Fran Johnson, publisher Harford’s Heart Magazine Harford County’s Division of Agriculture recently received an Achievement Award at the National Association of Counties Annual Conference in Reno, Nevada, for its “Buy Local” campaign to increase awareness of the availability of local-grown food. The award was acknowledgment of the county’s efforts to support our local agriculture […]
Keeping it Local in Harford
By Fran Johnson, publisher Harford’s Heart Magazine Beginning with its inaugural issue in early 2005, Harford’s Heart Magazine has been encouraging its readers to Keep it Local, enumerating the ways that shopping in local stores, eating from local farms, and obtaining services from local businesses strengthens the local economy. Dollars spent in local-owned businesses have […]