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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…

In his September 2, 2019 opinion column, David Roland Finley, president of North Central Michigan College, reports on the Fallowses’ argument that, “Community colleges are the most crucial part of this…

In his July 29, 2019 article, Fair Observer Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh discusses Antoine van Agtmael and Fred Bakker’s 2016 book The Smartest Places on Earth. The authors make the case that many of the…

Editor Mark Sappenfield‘s July 28, 2019 Christian Science Monitor column features Our Towns. The story references the trend among some young people to go back to rural America amid a pursuit…

The Presbyterian Outlook invited a variety of people they admire to share books that made an impression on them and that they think others will find meaningful. Our Towns tops their recommended summer…

Steve Dubb’s July 23, 2019 column in Nonprofit Quarterly highlights Jim and Deb Fallowses’ efforts to illustrate effective economic development activities in Danville, VA. The city’s focus on investing in building…