Gunnison
community links:
Gunnison
County
Gunnison
County (.com site)
City
of Gunnison
Gunnison
Watershed School District REIJ
Gunnison
Country Times
Gunnison
Shopper
Gunnison
Chamber of Commerce
League
of Women Voters
Crested
Butte Chamber of Commerce
Crested
Butte Weekly
Crested
Butte News
Lake
City Chamber of Commerce
Gunnison
Farmers Market
Gunnison
Arts Center
Gunnison
Valley Economic
Development
Corporation (GVEDC)
October:
NY Times etc. publish secret Walmart internal memo...
"THE
WAL-MART MYTHOLOGY IS
SHATTERED":
http://walmartwatch.com/blog/archives/the_wal_mart_mythology_is_shattered1/
Mayor
Ross Anderson of Salt Lake City gave a
"State
of the City"
speech
January 11 which is highly recommended reading. It has a
lot
to say on issues of concern to Gunnison and the GVCA.
Here is
a summary of the Democratic House
Staff Feb. 16, 2004 study
"Everyday Low Wages:
The Hidden Price We All Pay for Walmart"
And
here is the whole report in pdf format:
Site:
http://edworkforce.house.gov/democrats/WALMARTREPORT.pdf
"Shopping
for Subsidies: How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to
Finance Its
Never-Ending Growth."
Site:
http://www.goodjobsfirst.org/pdf/wmtstudy.pdf
Q&A
with Keith Morris, Al Norman of Sprawl Busters, and the
filmmaker
who created "Store Wars," about a Wal-Mart entering
a
Virginia community of about 5,000:
Site:
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/chat_transcript.html
A
rare instance of Wal-Mart pulling out of a proposed
supercenter:
Site:
http://pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/wal-mart/challenging.html
"Store
Wars" PBS programs and other information:
Site:
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/storewars/story.html
PBS
News Hour Online Walmart reports:
Site:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/wal-mart/
"Is
Wal-mart Good for America?" PBS Frontline report Nov.
16
Site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/
Simon
Head article in The New York Review of Books Dec. 16 issue
This
also refers to several books on the subject, and to the
House
committee report at the top of this section
Site:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17647
Thanks
to Tricia Winslow for forwarding this page on big box
reuse:
Site: http://www.bigboxreuse.com/
Thanks
to Ellen Harriman for forwarding this page on a Public
Television
documentary
Site: http://bigboxtv.com/
Walmartwatch
general information: http://www.WakeUpWalmart.com
Stop
Wal-Mart in Colorado Group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopwalmart/
Some
newspaper articles:
Taos NM Walmart information
Site:
http://laplaza.org/~totem/econ.html
Monument,
CO Rejects Wal-Mart (Note: Since this article
was
written, the County Commissioners also rejected!)
Site:
http://www.csindy.com/csindy/2004-06-24/cover.html