Local Business Survey Reveals Grim Outlook By Mary Alice Scott, Portland Buy Local Every month, I sit down to write an article for The West End News and consider what’s most pressing or rele... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott It feels a little strange (actually, it feels very strange) to be moving towards “normal” operations right now. Between a global pandemic, important and long overdue conv... Read more
Tara Treichel of SeaMade Every month Peloton Labs founder Liz Trice interviews a Peloton member for the West End News. This month Liz caught up with Tara Triechel, the owner of SeaMade, a Ma... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott As businesses begin to carefully re-open, the challenges they face are immense. Portland Buy Local overwhelmingly represents micro-businesses. Two-thirds of our membershi... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott For many years, the Buy Local movement has focused its efforts on communicating the value of local businesses to individual towns and states. Collectively, organizations... Read more
Stefanie Gill of IntWork Every Month Peloton Labs founder Liz Trice interviews a Peloton member for the West End News. This month Liz caught up with Stefanie Gill, the owner of IntWork, a Ma... Read more
Every Month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice interviews a Peloton member for The West End News. This month Liz caught up with Addy Smith-Reiman, the Executive Director of Portland Society for A... Read more
By Mary Alice Scott Writing a column that will be relevant for the whole month of April 2020 feels like an unusually daunting task. I am writing this at the end of March, when it has been ha... Read more
Kym Dakin: Training groups to listen with the head, heart, and hands Every month PelotonLabs founder Liz Trice interviews a Peloton member for the West End News. This month Liz caught up wit... Read more
WEN FEATURED NONPROFIT C Love Cookie Project, L3C By Tony Zeli What motivates you to buy a cookie? Most likely you’re satisfying a sweet tooth. I get it. I have a sweet tooth, too. But at C... Read more