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Michelle Ellia
March 24, 2021

What to Watch’s Phil Nickinson recommended ‘Our Towns’ the HBO documentary, writing, “The film provides an expansive perspective on America that finds unexpected connections between personal stories, community actions, and the…

A row of people sitting at computers in a library.

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Libraries

How Libraries Are Leading the Way to Digital Equity

Deborah Fallows
March 19, 2021

This is a report about how that drama is playing out in one sizable American city, and what its lessons indicate for the country as a whole.

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Press

Recommended by Fodor’s Travel

Michelle Ellia
March 18, 2021

In the Fodor’s Travel March 18, 2021 list of 15 top travel memoirs, Danielle Bauter recommends Our Towns. She writes, “Combining their journalistic experience–James is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and Deborah is a linguist and…

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Events

Announced as Featured Speaker at Bellingham City Club

Michelle Ellia
March 5, 2021

The Bellingham City Club has announced James Fallows as the featured speaker for their March 24, 2021 meeting. The virtual event, titled “Moving Forward with a Divided Electorate” will run…

An early 1900s image of the old Toledo Post Office.

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Entrepreneurs

When a Company Invests in an ‘Underdog City’

James Fallows
February 25, 2021

The story of how a company that started in one of these places is now involving people and businesses in anotherâ€”and why that matters in the next stage of equitable American recovery.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1942.

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Economic Development

Learning From the New Deal—For the Next Recovery

James Fallows
February 22, 2021

I was talking with the mayor of a "red state" city about how his community was weathering today's public-health and financial crises.

Michael Jones leans against a stone wall, smiling slightly, with a mountain behind him.

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Governance

How Michael Jones Changed Our Daily Lives

James Fallows
January 26, 2021

"Everyone is an inventor; you need only ignore limits and preconceptions then ask yourself 'how should it be?' "

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Press

Referenced in PennLive Patriot-News

Michelle Ellia
December 11, 2020

In his December 11, 2020 opinion article, prospective mayoral candidate Dave Schankweiler references Our Towns and the traits identified of successful towns, for which he sees parallels in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania’s capital, he exhorts,…

A woman with a mask on stands in front of a store with "80% off" store closing signs in the window.

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Economic Development

What Post-pandemic Repair Could Look Like

James Fallows
December 11, 2020

An update, following a report last month, on plans to repair the damage now being done.

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Libraries

Why Some Libraries Are Eliminating Fines

Deborah Fallows
December 4, 2020

Are fines consistent with a fundamental mission of libraries: to serve the public with information and knowledge? And to address that mission equitably across the diverse population of rich and poor library users?

An abandoned-looking steel mill on a sunny day.

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Economic Development

How to Reconnect Rural and Urban America

James Fallows
November 23, 2020

Some recent items worth noticing

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Press

Referenced in WGBH News

Michelle Ellia
November 11, 2020

In his November 11, 2020 commentary, Boston PBS media platform GBH’s Dan Kennedy references Jim Fallows’s now four year old prescription for overcoming the anger and divisiveness that had given rise to Donald Trump’s…

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Press

Featured in The Tullahoma News

Michelle Ellia
November 9, 2020

In her November 9, 2020 editorial, Shelley Smith of the The Tullahoma News reflects on Jim and Deb Fallows’s No. 1 sign that communities, large or small, are working well: divisive national politics…

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Featured in the Pensacola News Journal

Michelle Ellia
November 1, 2020

In his October 31, 2020 op-ed in the Pensacola News Journal, Studer Community Institue founder Quint Studer discusses the need for communities to step up, especially during difficult times. He reports on a…

Downtown Akron, from the city’s North Hill neighborhood, over the Little Cuyahoga River Valley. Akron is one of countless cities whose recovery plans have been upended by the pandemic.

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Economic Development

What Happens After the Election

James Fallows
October 21, 2020

What else is going on in the country, with less than two weeks in this consequential election season?

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Press

Featured on LBJ In the Arena

Michelle Ellia
October 19, 2020

James Fallows will appear on The University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs’ weekly lunchtime series “LBJ In the Arena” on Wednesday, October 21, 2020…