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What Will Idaho’s Main Streets Look Like Post-Pandemic?

What Will Idaho’s Main Streets Look Like Post-Pandemic?

March 1, 2021

What Will Idaho’s Main Streets Look Like Post-Pandemic?

NFIB Idaho thanks the editors of the Idaho Press for offering State Director Suzanne Budge an opportunity to take a crystal-ball look at the future of our state’s Main Streets.

Writes Budge, “The answer to our question, what will our Main Streets look like in the near future, is another question: Tell me what state and federal policies will be in place once the pandemic has passed that will either welcome or prohibit new small-business openings, small-business reopenings, and small-business continuations for those that weathered the storm?”

Read the rest of the guest editorial here.

Photo courtesy of Tamanoeconomica via Wikipedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lower_Main_Street_Commercial_Historic_District_(Boise,_Idaho).jpg

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