Michelle Ellia

In the March 3, 2020 Governing magazine, Alex Marshall, Urban Affairs/Infrastructure columnist referenced James and Deborah Fallows’s inclusion of Duluth in Our Towns as among America’s prosperous, smaller cities flying under the…

Seth Slabaugh’s February 7, 2020 column in the Muncie, IN Star Press discusses Muncie Community Schools’ dual language program and its potential affect on the anti-immigrant movement. He references Our Towns and the Fallowses’…

Jim and Deb Fallowses’ Our Towns adventures inspired the Delaware Community Foundation, the University of Delaware’s Partnership for Arts and Culture, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS) and Horn Entrepreneurship in collaboration with Dual…

In his January 6, 2020 opinion column, Troy Media’s Mike Robinson recommends Our Towns to his Canadian audience. He states, “While as a country we lack the scale of populist…

Business Insider’s January 16, 2020 article on how to become a craft brewer referenced Jim and Deb Fallows’ assertion that craft breweries are “arguably the best way to gauge whether…

The Erie Reader’s January 1, 2020 editorial features James and Deborah Fallowses’ coverage of Erie as a pivotal point in the city’s past decade. Their reporting, the editors said, helped a…

Gracy Olmstead of The American Conservative named Our Towns to her list of Best Books of 2019, one of five in her category ‘Books About Place and Community.’ The column was also…

Keith Morton, PhD, a professor in the Department of Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College, recently reviewed Our Towns for the eJournal of Public Affairs. He describes the…

In her feature in Humanities, The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Jennifer Howard describes libraries as one of the only, “truly public places left in America.” She…

Jim and Deb Fallows visited Angola, IN in April of 2019 for a project organized jointly by New America Indianapolis, and Indiana Humanities, as part of their new two-year-long INseparable program intended to foster conversations…

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…

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…