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Big Boxes, Little Bookstores and Taxpayers

There's too much taxpayers' money going to for-profit businesses in this morning's news. I'd say I'm speechless -- but those who know me wouldn't believe it. And they'd be right, as you'll see.

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Bookies for Bookstores.
City Council's Opposition to Citizen Participation.
The Ever-Changing Traditional and Electronic Markets.
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There's  so much transfer of taxpayers' money going to for-profit businesses in
this morning's [June 6] news that I'd say I'm speechless -- but for the
fact those who know me wouldn't believe it. And they'd be right, as
you're about to see.

For the full development of the implications of the topics highlighted above for all Iowa cities, along with an explanation of why the Iowa City City Council should now provide Wal-Mart with a big grant and helping hand as the Big Box struggles with e-commerce competition, see

http://fromdc2iowa.blogspot.com/2012/06/big-boxes-little-bookstores-and.html

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