Love Live Local is a Cape Cod organization dedicated to community advocacy and educating consumers on the importance of shopping local. Our mission is to foster an economically sustainable, creative and exciting future for the Cape and help all those who love this place participate in keeping it special.
Our aim is to work with local businesses to achieve their economic goals, and communicate their importance to the sustainability of the Cape Cod community as a whole, as well as foster community connection among individuals and organizations in order to improve the overall health of our region.
It has been a rough couple of decades for the news industry on the local, regional, and national level – the U.S. has lost over 2,000 news organizations in print journalism alone. The internet is partially responsible for this decline, but it cannot be denied that unchecked corporate consolidation ...
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It reads like a classic David vs Goliath Story but it has real world implications, right here on Cape Cod. At issue: many small businesses are struggling to survive because of the ongoing global health crisis, while insurance companies sit on an $800 billion surplus refusing to pay out on business ...
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Independent pharmacies not only play a key role in our health care but like other local businesses, they are an important part of our local economies and communities. Unfortunately, because of corporate control of their industry, many of them have been facing increasing costs, a reduction in ...
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For most businesses small and large, there have been very few bright spots throughout this pandemic. The same cannot be said for Amazon.com. In fact, the even greater shift to online commerce meant that in the third quarter of this year, Amazon’s sales were up more than a third over the year before, ...
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There have been many examples of local organizations stepping up to support the Cape Cod community in a variety of ways throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and Cape Cod Broadcasting is no exception.
When so much was unknown about the public health crisis we were facing not only did the Cape ...
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In late May when the country’s - and the Cape’s - attention on racial justice issues became incredibly heightened many Cape Codders asked for a resource that would help them support local Black owned businesses. Up until that point, such a resource did not exist. Fortunately, Tara Vargas-Wallace, ...
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