From Atlantic magazine: By Richard Florida Most of the commentary on America’s dismal economic outlook tends to focus on national statistics: an unemployment rate of over 9 percent and a flat jobs report for August. But by...
Read MoreIt’s a tale of two cities, and only a short drive is needed to come face-to-face with the telling. In Nashville, the drive takes you to Williamson County, the 11th wealthiest county in the U.S., with a median family income...
Read MoreFrom Places: These are places we Americans know well: suburban and exurban neighborhoods, where gently curving streets are lined with single-family houses with driveways, multi-car garages, front lawns. We have been constructing...
Read MoreFrom Education Week blogs: By Peter DeWitt “Don’t be so busy looking for problems that you forget to notice improvements.” Todd Whitaker. Turn on the television for a moment. Listen carefully to the...
Read MoreWe happened to run across this post from April 30 of last year and thought it’s worth remembering (former Denver Mayor Hickenlooper is now current Colorado Governor Hickenlooper): Smithsonian Travel has written a peaen to...
Read MoreFrom Education Week: By Catharine Hill Our educational system, historically a major engine for equal opportunity and a pathway to the American Dream, is under severe stress. Along with it, the working- and middle-class and...
Read MoreIt’s been said that when the economy sneezes, poor people catch pneumonia. It’s the same diagnosis for a city with a high poverty rate. Memphis may be doing its best to cope with a bad case of walking pneumonia but the...
Read MoreFrom Sustainable Cities Collective: Riding high on the announcement of New York City’s bike-share program just a day earlier, NYC Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan gave the keynote lecture at the...
Read MoreFrom Slate: By Neil deMause|Posted Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011, at 12:30 PM ET In that sense, sports expenditures should be looked at less as new economic activity than as spending that’s cannibalized from elsewhere in the local...
Read MoreFrom Citiwire comes some coverage of our colleague, Carol Coletta’s new initiative: Roberta Brandes Gratz / Sep 24 2011 By God they got it! They finally got it! Bravo to National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco...
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