Featured in Voices of Monterey Bay
In his column in the not-for-profit bilingual news organization Voices of Monterey Bay, Peter Hiller describes his recent visits to take a fresh look at his local library — visits spurred…
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Featured in the Press Enterprise
In his October 25, 2018 column, Southern California News Group reporter David Allen described the Fallowses keynote at an Ontario, CA economic development conference. “Some towns, in the Rust Belt…
Featured in The Wilson Times
In his October 28, 2018 column, Patrick Woodie, president of the N.C. Rural Center, profiled the Fallowses Our Towns travels and their findings that, “despite the national narrative about economically…
Referenced in Bloomberg Opinion Column
In his October 26, 2018 column, Justin Fox references the recurrent themes in Our Towns, which he listened to on a recent cross-country driving trip (download the audiobook). He found…
Interviewed on What Could Go Right?
In Zachary Karabell’s What Could Go Right? interview today with Jim and Deb he notes,”#SmallTownAmerica has defied national trends – wielding leadership & imagination to revive local communities across the country.…
Event Preview in Erie Reader
In the Erie Reader, Nick Warren previews the upcoming 10th annual Jefferson Education Society Global Summit, which includes David Ignatius, Sebastian Gorka, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill Plante and Ann Compton,…
Featured by BYU Wheatley Institution
In his October 22, 2018 article for the BYU Wheatley Institution, Ronald K. Mitchell likens our current society’s interactions to an out-of-tune band. He sees Our Towns as presenting a…
Point of Reference in Bloomberg Cities
In his October 18, 2018 article, Bloomberg’s James Anderson advances one of the main themes in Our Towns, namely that “so much of our country’s most promising and hopeful innovation…
Point of Reference in The Christian Science Monitor
In his October 15, 2018 column, Editor Mark Sappenfield heralds, “The triumph of gray,” with the thought, based on the Christian Science Monitor’s cover story this week that, “Perhaps the answer to…
Featured in Governing
In his 9-28-18 article in Governing, senior editor Alan Ehrenhalt discusses in the Fallowes’ Our Towns and Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak’s The New Localism that, he maintains, both make…
Highlighted in the Canyon Courier (Colorado)
In Jim Rohrer’s October 12, 2018 column, he highlights Our Towns as, “an uplifting book that left me believing that the American grit, determination and ingenuity of which we have…
Point of Reference in Bloomberg
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith recently discussed the big dividends for American industry that came out of technologies developed with the help of U.S. government-led research efforts from agencies such…
Reviewed in Charleston Gazette-Mail
In his October 9, 2018 Op-Ed, Dan Foster discusses the Fallowses’ visits to more than 40 cities over the course of their four-year journey across the United States, including two…
Reviewed in Arkansas Democrat Gazette
In his Sunday, October 7, 2018 column, Rex Nelson, Senior Editor at the Arkansas Democrat Gazette discusses Jim’s recent lecture, the John Netherland Heiskell Distinguished Lecture for the Central Arkansas…
Featured in Navarre Press
“No one succeeds by trying to be the next Silicon Valley. That was the message of author, journalist and civic advocate James Fallows to a gathering of Pensacola community leaders…
Point of Reference in Bloomberg Opinion Column
In his October 2, 2018 column, Justin Fox discusses why Sioux Falls, SD, despite not following any traditional recipe for civic success, is booming. Its metro-area population has increased 13.5…