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Danville Register & Bee correspondent John Crane reported on James and Deborah Fallowses’ appearance before 200-300 community leaders and local officials at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research on…

Ron Leonardi of GoErie.com reported on the Fallowses’ appearance as the closing speaker in the Jefferson Educational Society’s Global Summit X. The Fallowses, he said, found Erie, like many other…

In his column in the November 15, 2018 edition of The Fayette Tribune (WV), Jack Stevenson asserts, “Civic leaders in the community where I live brought in knowledgeable people with…

In his Monday, November 12, 2018 column, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Justin Fox reports on a new park in Tulsa, OK called the Gathering Place, which he sees as an example of…

Tom Hanks spoke with New York Times book critic Parul Sehgal about his short story collection, Uncommon Type: Some Stories as one of two keynote authors at the Portland celebration of…

In his November 6, 2018 opinion column, Jonathan Capehart writes, “Five years ago, James Fallows and his wife Deborah set out on a journey to discover America. The result became…

In his November 6, 2018 opinion column, Noah Smith of Bloomberg News discusses the cash subsidy — $4.5 billion — the state of Wisconsin is paying to Taiwanese electronics manufacturer…

In his article on the Oct. 2018 Broadband Communities Conference, Isfandiyar Shaheen observed five broad themes that support the building of broadband infrastructure in communities. The first, “Broadband is not…

In Craftsmanship Magazine, Barry Yeoman discusses what he calls Durham, NC’s “headline-grabbing renaissance” that includes a former tobacco factory turned apartment complex, a public radio studio, and an artificial river. As…

In his November 1, 2018 column in The Sampson Independent, Jack Stevenson references James and Deborah Fallowses’ writing in Our Towns on the issue of divisiveness. As he quotes, where…

Fort Wayne Magazine Editor John Christensen’s review of Our Towns reports, “The Fallowses’ storytelling skills, combined with their hands-on method of analysis and research, make for a compelling read for anyone…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…