Learning from a Prairie State
Small cities, potentially big lessons. What a state that is home to 800,000 people can demonstrate to the country as a whole.
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Revitalizing Charleston, West Virginia Brick by Brick
Revitalizing Charleston, West Virginia Brick by Brick
‘New Old Ideas’: A Modern CCC
American history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Crises keep cropping up—and so do ideas and solutions. Many innovations from the 1930s have new relevance for the post-pandemic 2020s. Here is an example, and the thinking behind it.
Learning From the New Deal—For the Next Recovery
I was talking with the mayor of a "red state" city about how his community was weathering today's public-health and financial crises.
How to Reconnect Rural and Urban America
Some recent items worth noticing
‘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…
The Surprising Rural Health-Care Legacy of the ’60s
Eastport Grapples with Health-Care
A Rural High School with a 21st Century Outlook
A California school prepares its students for success.