Building Your Future in Indiana
This spring, Deb Fallows and I made a trip through Indiana for a series of events and meetings co-organized by New America Indianapolis and Indiana Humanities. We were in Muncie, Fort Wayne,…
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A Big Little Idea From Nashville
During our travels visiting towns and cities across the country for American Futures and now Our Towns, Jim Fallows (my husband) and I have encountered story after story of short, sweet initiatives…
Fallowses to be Featured at Original Minds Festival
James and Deborah Fallows will headline Show 9 – The Character of Our Country at the Original Thinkers Festival in Telluride, CO on Sunday, October 6, 2019. The festival melds speakers,…
Fallowses Featured in Roanoke Times Editorial
The Roanoke Times‘ September 19, 2019 editorial discusses Danville, Virginia’s comeback, as highlighted recently by the Fallowses. The article describes the city’s transformation from “a Southern mill town without any…
‘Lessons From Danville’
This summer, Deb Fallows and I visited the southern-Virginia town of Danville, and the surrounding rural areas of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and the adjoining Caswell County, North Carolina. In its…
There’s Hope for Local Journalism
Everyone knows that local newspapers are in trouble. That’s why Deb Fallows and I have been chronicling examples of smaller papers that have bucked the economic trend—in Mississippi, in coastal Maine, in rural…
The Library That’s Also an Art Gallery
A "hub of Winston-Salem in touch with the people."
Fallowses to Deliver 2019 Building Opportunity Keynote
Jim and Deb Fallows will deliver the Delaware Community Foundation’s annual Building Opportunity Keynote on Wednesday, November 6, 2019. The annual presentation, which seeks to elevate big ideas and inspire conversations…
Featured in the Holland Sentinel
In his September 8, 2019 column in the Holland Sentinel, Douglas Brouwer writes about the positive changes he’s seen since his return to Holland, MI in the last year. The…
Fallowses Featured at Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors
James and Deborah Fallows are featured speakers at this weekend’s Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors in Downtown Winston-Salem, NC. The session, Saturday, Sepbember 7, 1:15 – 2:00pm in Mountcastle…
The Surprising Rural Health-Care Legacy of the ’60s
Eastport Grapples with Health-Care
Featured in Gaylord Herald Times
In his September 2, 2019 opinion column, David Roland Finley, president of North Central Michigan College, reports on the Fallowses’ argument that, “Community colleges are the most crucial part of this…
‘Local, Local, Local’: How a Small Newspaper Survives
This is another road report on the state of local journalism, which is more and more important, and more and more imperiled.
It is important because so much of the future of American economic, cultural, and civic life is now being devised and determined at the local or state level.
The Gift of a Public Library
A legacy that continues.
Flying Down East
Headed back to Eastport
The Power of a Community College
Last week I reported on a conference of community-college leaders that Deb Fallows and I attended in Michigan, and about some of the reasons we’ve come to believe that community colleges are…