by MFGgear | Sep 3, 2021 | Manufacture Local
by A close friend of John Gardner’s wrote this The turmoil in Afghanistan this past week has greatly affected me…saddened me. While there have been many large scale disasters and turmoil in decades previous, earthquakes in Japan and Haiti,...
by MFGgear | Mar 6, 2021 | Climate Change, Manufacture Local
by Greg Owens, Co-founder and CEO, Sherrill Manufacturing/Liberty Tabletop There are few if any things that would be considered “pleasant” in a presidential political year but there is at least one thing that is positive. The process heightens awareness of issues...
by MFGgear | Feb 27, 2021 | A Manufacture Local Story™, Manufacture Local
A Manufacture Local Story™ by John Gardner As I meet immigrants I ask them why they came to America and the universal response is “opportunity”. I ask them to specify what “opportunity” America provides that other nations do not; the majority, who...
by MFGgear | Jan 21, 2021 | Manufacture Local
by John Gardner On Dec. 22, 2020 I sent a submission to the Oxford English Dictionary for a “A new word or sense”. That word is STEALTH-SLAVER and/or STEALTH-SLAVERY. Definition: Any individual, collective, corporation or country who surreptitiously benefits from...
by MFGgear | Dec 7, 2020 | Manufacture Local
by Michael Nickle Pearl Harbor Day is the one day per year that I am most consistent in posting to social media. I do it because there is so much to learn from this event that seems to be lost which bothers the Hell out of me. Why did the Japanese attack us? You...
by MFGgear | Dec 3, 2020 | Manufacture Local
by John Gardner Hollywood loves to congratulate itself with endless award ceremonies exalting their creative oblations to the gods of culture. Silicon Valley is fawned over by the media and the idea of unicorns is now sullied by association not with the magical...