True Maroons: Byron Crawford, Steven Lucy, Andrew Cone, David Brooks, and Craig Huffman

RETAILING IN THE RECESSION
"Chicago Solar Bag Company Basks in Green Craze Glow" (Medill Reports Chicago, Mar. 3, 2009)
Noon Solar business manager Byron Crawford, MBA'05, finds being that small is an advantage during the recession.

RETAILING IN THE RECESSION REDUX
"Transparent, Community-Oriented Hyde Park Grocer Sustains Sales Growth" (Medill Reports Chicago, Mar. 4, 2009)
Steven Lucy, AB'06, and Andrew Cone, SB'06, envision their five-month-old grocery store Open Produce, located on 55th Street, as "a way to directly involve in the community and provide the service that people would value and respect," says Cone.

MODERATION IN ALL THINGS
"A Moderate Manifesto" (New York Times, Mar. 2, 2009)
In a new op-ed David Brooks, AB'83, writes about being a moderate in a "war of the extremes."

APARTMENT THERAPY
"Alum Anticipates South Campus Growth, Rehabs Old Apartment Buildings" (Chicago Maroon, Mar. 3, 2009)
"Over the next five to ten years, the market is going to appreciate quite a bit, especially since a huge number of students will exist on that 61st Street block," says Craig Huffman, AM'94, MBA'03.

March 5, 2009