Ron Knox
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Kansas City, KS, United States
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Building Local Power: Our Best Podcast Episodes on Antimonopoly
We have generated a list of Building Local Power's “greatest hits” from our recent archives. These episodes capture crucial perspectives in our multi-pronged antitrust, small business, and racial justice movement. → Read More
Fact Sheet: Why the “Ending Platform Monopolies Act” is Essential Reform
Lawmakers cannot achieve their aim of restoring competition to our online markets without passing the structural separation bill. → Read More
New Fact Sheet: How Breaking Up Amazon Can Empower Independent Businesses and Revive American Entrepreneurship
Amazon is crushing independent businesses — and most Americans believe it needs to be reined in. In this fact sheet, we explain why Congress must act in order to check Amazon’s outsized power and allow small business to compete online. → Read More
New Fact Sheet: How Breaking Up Amazon Can Empower Independent Businesses and Revive American Entrepreneurship
Amazon is crushing independent businesses — and most Americans believe it needs to be reined in. In this fact sheet, we explain why Congress must act in order to check Amazon’s outsized power and allow small business to compete online. → Read More
Amazon's Monopoly Tollbooth
Amazon’s dominance of online retail means that hundreds of thousands of small businesses must rely on its site to reach customers. In this report, we find that Amazon is exploiting its gatekeeper power to extract a growing cut of the revenue earned by these sellers. It's doing this by imposing ever-larger fees on them. This tactic is hobbling sellers and often dooming their businesses. It's also… → Read More
Op-Ed in the Washington Post: We're Short on Hospital Beds Because of Hospital Consolidation
In the Washington Post, Senior Researcher Ron Knox and Roosevelt Institute co-author Andrea Flynn explain how monopoly power is impacting Americans' access to health care, particular hospitals' ability to fight the COVID-19 crisis.… Read More → Read More
How State and Local Governments are Helping Small Businesses During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Cities and states must help support businesses and working families, especially until the federal response meets the scope of the COVID-19 crisis. In some places, that’s already happening. Here are the steps local and state governments have taken so far to shelter small businesses from the virus’s vast economic turmoil.… Read More → Read More
The Kauffman Foundation's Ecosystem Model For Entrepreneurs
Business boosters believe connectivity is the key to spurring new businesses. But can that model work in chronically disinvested communities? → Read More
Can Kansas City Come Together To Save Its Troubled East Side?
Voters from around the city just approved a citizen-led tax initiative that will funnel funds only to a long-neglected part of town. But the racial fractures may be hard to heal. → Read More
20 Years Ago, Propagandhi Antagonized the Punk Scene with âLess Talk, More Rockâ
The seminal album actively challenged their macho fans to think differently, whether they liked it or not. → Read More
20 Years Ago, Propagandhi Antagonized the Punk Scene with âLess Talk, More Rockâ
The seminal album actively challenged their macho fans to think differently, whether they liked it or not. → Read More
This Year’s Damaged City Fest Won’t Take Place at St. Stephen’s Church
The famed church has been the home base for the hardcore festival since its inception. → Read More
Government Issue’s John Stabb Battling Stomach Cancer
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help cover his medical costs. → Read More
Blasting Off: With its Third Album, Two Inch Astronaut is Breaking Free of the City’s Musical Past
With "Personal Life," Two Inch Astronaut is propelling into a higher indie rock strata. → Read More
Petrol Girls Singer Ren Aldridge Reflects on Visiting Displaced Residents in the Calais âJungle"
The singer of the UK punk band has volunteered at the camps for people fleeing their homes in Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, and describes the hostility and violence she's seen there. → Read More
Petrol Girls Singer Ren Aldridge Reflects on Visiting Displaced Residents in the Calais âJungle"
The singer of the UK punk band has volunteered at the camps for people fleeing their homes in Afghanistan, Sudan, and Syria, and describes the hostility and violence she's seen there. → Read More
The Inaugural Breakin’ Even Fest Announces Lineup
Arts Desk is Washington City Paper's blog about D.C. music, film, theater, books, and performance. → Read More
Here’s the 2016 Damaged City Fest Lineup
Arts Desk is Washington City Paper's blog about D.C. music, film, theater, books, and performance. → Read More
Listen: Big Hush, Who’s Smoking Your Spirit?
Arts Desk is Washington City Paper's blog about D.C. music, film, theater, books, and performance. → Read More
Diet Cig Are Graduating from Being a College Band
"We don’t want to be a New York band, or a New Paltz band. We are a band based out of the US. We’re everywhere. So let’s just be that." → Read More