Posts Tagged ‘Wal-Mart’

Wal-Mart bashers are always quick to say how when a Wal-Mart store moves in, local businesses suffer and are driven out of business.  Of course there is no real evidence of this but it doesn’t keep them from saying it.  Channel 7 recently ran a great story about the Wal-Mart store in Durango, Colorado.  The [...]

I guess the Democrats in the Colorado state legislature didn't have the stomach for a fight.  They have dropped their anti Wal-Mart bill.  More can be read here:  Dems fold on Wal-Mart bill

Published in the Northglenn / Thornton Sentinel.  This was written in regards to a measure in the Colorado state legislature mandating that companies that have a certain number of employees spend a specified percentage on health care. 

Issue 2B is on the city of Thornton's ballot this year.  In a nutshell it has to do with the rezoning of a piece of property to allow the building of a "big box" store.  Naturally this has caused a lot of fighting.  Here is a letter to the editor that I wrote that were [...]

A recent article in the Rocky Mountain News took to task a group supporting a Wal-Mart in a neighboring community for receiving a majority of their funding from the company.  That is fine but what the article failed to disclose is that the anti Wal-Mart group received most of their money from unions!  This letter [...]

Wal-Mart bashing seems to be the in thing, even in our suburb.  A gal wrote to the local newspaper making some claims about Wal-Mart's hurricane relief efforts that were false; part of a recent PR effort in our area to bash them.  I couldn't let it lie.