The Parks and Recreation Theory of America’s Future
What we discuss at the national level has surprisingly little to do with startup decisions. Some provocative data about where America is growing, and why.
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Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts
“One half dream; one half plan.” That’s how one student described his life at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. Dreaming big at the…
Dadgum! Katy, Bar the Door!
Speaking Your Mind in South Carolina
Smaller-Town Startups: ‘Stopping the Brain Drain’ in SC
'People say, this is my ticket Out.' Then, they want to stay.
America’s Tiniest Engineers: Report From Greenville, South Carolina
It was the monthly “engineering week” when I visited the A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering in Greenville, South Carolina, in January. Volunteers from one of the several local big-name companies in…
In Which I Develop New Respect for the Wedding-Industrial Comple
We know that football players are brave. But spare a thought as well for bride-magazine models.
Welcome to Greenville and ‘The Upstate’
A region that has willed its way to a new economic and civic identity.
Separated at Birth? Greenville, Sioux Falls
Here is Falls Park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, last summer: And here is Falls Park in Greenville, South Carolina, this afternoon: A decade ago, the falls areas in both…