02/19/26: Stacy Mitchell is the Co-Executive Director for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and wrote this article in the Atlantic: The Great Grocery Squeeze / How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance released a new interactive map and policy brief that exposes how decades of unchecked consolidation reshaped the American grocery landscape.

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02/19/26: Stacy Mitchell is the Co-Executive Director for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and&nbsp;wrote this article in the Atlantic: <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift=QFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dMoNepnmHxqTbYqKlK_hiUE&amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=share" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/food-deserts-robinson-patman/680765/?gift%3DQFVDFKVE3HQ31cU_KmT1dMoNepnmHxqTbYqKlK_hiUE%26utm_source%3Dcopy-link%26utm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1771621136937000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2fFIZfTOUADGZd5KFWL8uC">The Great Grocery Squeeze / How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert. </a>The Institute for Local Self-Reliance<a href="https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/grocerygaps/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://ilsr.org/article/independent-business/grocerygaps/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1771621136937000&amp;usg=AOvVaw282ApgbwOMY4RW-7YLjHWI">&nbsp;released a new interactive map&nbsp;</a>and policy brief that exposes how decades of unchecked consolidation reshaped the American grocery landscape.
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News & Views with Joel Heitkamp is a multi-award winning program on KFGO in Fargo, North Dakota where Joel Heitkamp brings his common sense approach to the issues of the day in the upper Midwest region. From politics to public service announcements to sports to government spending, there is a place in the conversation for everyone.