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In nearly five months of driving highways and byways across the country, "Going Out of Business" signs have seemed a standard element of the modern American landscape. I barely notice them anymore, even those hued in sense-shocking shades of florescent with four-foot letters screaming "EVERYTHING MUST GO!". At the 243 T-junction entering Osceola, Wisconsin, I make an uncharacteristically complete stop as my mind demands processing time for the unusual sight of a "Grand Opening" banner.
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"I want to be like the Nabisco of ganja," Shaz Swartz announces, as we're sitting on the front porch of his rustic wood cabin perched on the side of a mountain above the minuscule town of Ward, Colorado. The 43-year-old ex-Marine has sole custody of his two young sons, and wants to provide a more comfortable future for them than he ever could in his job as a construction inspector, particularly now that the recession has been leaving him with increasingly fewer sites to inspect. Read More
New Orleans has always been a most unconventional of American cities. As national prosperity continues to decline under the weight of a constricting economy, the city nearly destroyed by forces of nature nearly four years ago is perpetuating an inverse trend. Even beyond the employment opportunities created by ongoing reconstruction projects, an explosion of entrepreneurialism fostered by big thinkers like Sean Cummings is incubating a re-birth of this historic city.
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"I want to be like the Nabisco of ganja," Shaz Swartz announces, as we're sitting on the front porch of his rustic wood cabin perched on the side of a mountain above the minuscule town of Ward, Colorado. The 43-year-old ex-Marine has sole custody of his two young sons, and wants to provide a more comfortable future for them than he ever could in his job as a construction inspector, particularly now that the recession has been leaving him with increasingly fewer sites to inspect. Read More
07/20/09 1:23 PM
Round Pegs in NoLA's Square Hole: Entrepreneurs Defy Recession
New Orleans has always been a most unconventional of American cities. As national prosperity continues to decline under the weight of a constricting economy, the city nearly destroyed by forces of nature nearly four years ago is perpetuating an inverse trend. Even beyond the employment opportunities created by ongoing reconstruction projects, an explosion of entrepreneurialism fostered by big thinkers like Sean Cummings is incubating a re-birth of this historic city.
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