Revitalizing Charleston, West Virginia Brick by Brick
Revitalizing Charleston, West Virginia Brick by Brick
Economic Development
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Learning from Eisenhower (and Lincoln): A Grand Bargain on Transportation
Two Republican presidents—Abraham Lincoln, and Dwight Eisenhower—offered bold new approaches to transportation as part of their national strategy. A proposal
Meet Erie: Part II – Economic Impact
Like many towns and cities, Erie, Pennsylvania long had its identity tied to its industry. The only county of the Keystone State’s 67 located on the Great Lakes watershed –…
Three Guides to the Next America
This note is to kick off a resumed set of chronicles in the “Our Towns” series, after time away for a long Atlantic project on the origins of this era’s public-health and…
A Peach Tree Grows in Charleston, West Virginia
Behind the 4,000-square-foot building in the Elk City neighborhood of Charleston, West Virginia, a shed stood alone outside.
Meet Erie: A rust belt region continues to navigate its renaissance through a pandemic
Local filmmakers take to their streets examines the economic, cultural, and social impacts of Covid-19 during the summer of 2020 through this short film series.
When a Company Invests in an ‘Underdog City’
The story of how a company that started in one of these places is now involving people and businesses in another—and why that matters in the next stage of equitable American recovery.
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.
What Post-pandemic Repair Could Look Like
An update, following a report last month, on plans to repair the damage now being done.
How to Reconnect Rural and Urban America
Some recent items worth noticing
What Happens After the Election
What else is going on in the country, with less than two weeks in this consequential election season?
How a Small Brewery Can Survive COVID-19
A bellwether business category, figuring out how and whether it can survive.
What happens to small companies now?
The path small, locally conscious firms are taking to survive the current economic and public health disaster.
Will Craft Brewing Survive?
Following up with breweries large and small around the country.
A Company That Helps You Find Job B
The tech-training and incubator company Bitwise, based in Fresno in California’s agricultural Central Valley, has been an important test case for the proposition that new, valuable, job-creating and wealth-expanding businesses…
Sparking a Small-Town Business Ecosystem
The national-level response to the coronavirus pandemic descends from tragedy into catastrophe. The black granite slabs of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington display the names of more than 58,000…