There are local interests peculiar to every town, whether great or small, and common to all its inhabitants: every town, therefore, without distinction of size, ought to have its municipal council.
We didn't have a beauty shop as I grew up.
Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores - these didn't come out of nowhere.
I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.
Where I grew up, there was one supermarket, one school, one hairdresser, and that was it. It was a very small community.
There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.
The people of Michigan deserve leadership in Lansing that will work to continue providing them with services they depend on every day.
To pay the price of federal mandates, local governments must cut the services that they are in the business of providing ... To Congress we say, if you're going to pass the bill, don't pass us the buck.
Until Amazon creates a drone that can cut your hair, there's a physical and real reason to come to the store.
Almost everybody who thinks about local thinks about daily deals, but companies like OpenTable and Zillow and Yelp are all getting their money from the local market.
I think local shopping areas and markets are terribly important, both for tradespeople and the local feeling of an area.
Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
The experience is fundamentally different for buying from local businesses than it is for buying consumer goods.
There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
If I hadn't had access to the vital support of my local Sure Start centre, I would never have had the help I - and my son - needed.
Small businesses are the heart and soul of South Carolina's economy - from our bait stores to our restaurants and barber shops.
I think it is wrong to balance the budget on the backs of local government.
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.
