Tacoma Shift Happens, an initiative by business alliance GoLocal, plans to hold its third annual event Monday.
The Shift is an attempt to get people to move 10 percent of their spending from national chains to a locally owned businesses.
Tacoma Shift Happens, an initiative by business alliance GoLocal, plans to hold its third annual event Monday.
Tacoma Shift Happens, an initiative by business alliance GoLocal, plans to hold its third annual event Monday.
The Shift is an attempt to get people to move 10 percent of their spending from national chains to a locally owned businesses.
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Five days a week, rain or shine, for almost 16 months, union picketers staked out the sidewalk in front of downtown Tacoma’s first grocery store in decades, encouraging people to take their business elsewhere.
Some News Tribune readers could be heard grousing about the $95,000 Tacoma city government shelled out to a consultant to tell it the blindingly obvious – trying to land an NBA or NHL franchise for the Tacoma Dome is, to put it politely, not realistic.
It’s no secret that newspapers, including The Olympian, have been through enormous changes in the past few years. Like every other business, we were hit hard by the recession. And alongside it came a sea change in reader habits as they began to get their news in digital form as well as in print.
A cross-country educational reform tour visits Tacoma today. The event, sponsored by the Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, will host education, government and business leaders “to address the current state of education reform and what’s next for Washington schools,” said the sponsors.
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