In a small, rural community like Fort Bragg there are always mixed feelings about “big chains” competing with locally-owned and grown businesses. I’m not going to comment either way, except to report that according to Starbucks’ website, the Fort Bragg store is not on the closure list. This, is seems, it good for employment and tax revenues and not seeing another empty store in these hard economic times. Of course, people forget, that often, the so-called chains, are really a collection of stores owned by local folks in each town where the store exists. Closure of any business in a small town can’t be good. Rising tide lifts all boats, as they say.