Love Live Local aims to be a resource for those looking to learn about Cape Cod and foster community connection. We write stories about local businesses, things to do, places to go, ways to give back to the community, and demonstrating why it is important to shop local. Feel free to read and share!
Independent pharmacies play an important part in the fight against COVID-19, but are being stifled by corporate power
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…
Amazon is not a friend to small business
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…
Community Partner: Cape Cod Broadcasting
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…
Amplifying POC owned businesses
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,…
Here’s how MA policymakers can save our local restaurants
MA policymakers already have the tools to make getting through the COVID-19 pandemic a lot easier for the local hospitality industry.
Nauset Disposal keeping things clean + safe during challenging times
For many of us, the stay-at-home orders brought on by the coronavirus global pandemic meant just that: we had to stay at home. But for those providing essential services like waste hauling, companies like Nauset Disposal didn’t skip a beat…
D.C. Decisions, Corporate Power + Cape Cod
In late July, the four “big tech giants” testified in front of a Congressional subcommittee. Some, like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, for the first time. Now, you may have missed it or dismissed its importance, because there’s a lot of pressing…
Help us raise $100,000 for Cape Cod small businesses by Labor Day
We are almost five months into the coronavirus global pandemic and the outlook for our small businesses continues to remain unclear. Nationally, over 100,000 small businesses have closed permanently, and in Massachusetts just one in three small businesses report being fully open. While many…
Duffy Center assists those most in-need
One of the ways in which we carry out our mission of community advocacy and communicating the importance of shopping local is to foster connection among organizations in order to improve the overall health of our region. Evidence shows that…
