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Small Business Matters

Community Capital / By Janice Shade

Stephanie Dunham paced the length of her office and marveled that she hadn’t worn a path in the carpet after so many trips back and forth over the past few hours. It was April 22, 2020, and just six weeks earlier, she’d planned to spend part of the day out on the town green with …

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Food Insurance and Our Future

Community Capital / By Janice Shade

March 23, 2020 My husband, Chip, and I moved to Vermont in June 2002. We were in our thirties, no kids yet, and in love with this new place we called home. One of our favorite weekend activities in those pre-kid days was to get out on our bikes and ride. For miles. Previously, when …

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Two Entrepreneurs Walk into a Bar….

Entrepreneurship / By Janice Shade

March 19, 2020 Two Entrepreneurs Walk into a Bar… A Baby Boomer and a Millennial walk into a bar…ok, not a bar, but onto my Zoom screen on separate occasions over the past couple weeks. Despite the 30+ year difference in their ages, they share a number of similarities: They’re both White, hetero men. Each, …

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Is There Life After Capitalism?

Is There Life After Capitalism?

Uncategorized / By Janice Shade

Capitalism. It’s such a polarizing concept. It seems if you’re not for it, you’re against it. You’re either a capitalist pig or a communist pig. I know, I know…some say the more accurate opposite of capitalism is socialism, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone being called a socialist pig. (And can we just …

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Ode to the Boatrockers of the World

Uncategorized / By Janice Shade

Someone told me long ago that I was a boatrocker, never satisfied with the status quo. At the time, I was in my early 30s and a good 10 years into my career. I was happily climbing the corporate ladder to the top ranks of management, so being called a boatrocker really stopped me in …

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