The U.S. Agency for International Development has prioritized spending more of its aid through local organizations — with Administrator Samantha Power setting the goal of directing 25% of its funding ...

Under Samantha Power, the U.S. Agency for International Development has an ambitious plan to direct more funding and power to local organizations. How ambitious will depend in part on how the agency ...

Mayor Scott Gillingham, in one of his first re-election campaign pledges, has promised to create a level playing field for local businesses to compete with national and multinational bidders on city ...

“Local” is a word that is broadly used to describe something particular about a place that makes it different from somewhere else. Across the globe, the “local-ness” of our cities is what makes them ...

In 2019, two competing biscuit businesses in Fayetteville, North Carolina, caused an uproar by both claiming to be “local” establishments. The Fayetteville Observer asked readers to weigh in on ...