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The burnt remains of trees in the hills of Santa Barbara, California, after the Cave Fire in 2019.
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  • Civic Life

A ‘Climate Corps’ of California Volunteers

  • James Fallows
  • September 28, 2020
Designed to address both the causes and the effects of California's exposure to climate change.
People rowing on a river under a bridge with sunlight.
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  • Education

The Sport That’s Like Playing in a Jazz Quartet

  • James Fallows
  • September 8, 2020
"Rowing is a sport, everything else is a game."
Alvin Ross (left) and Arshay Cooper, author of the book ‘A Most Beautiful Thing" row down a river in Chicago.
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  • Education

‘A Most Beautiful Thing’ in a Time of Racial Reckoning

  • James Fallows
  • September 3, 2020
This film's story would be surprising and engrossing at any time, but it has a current power and relevance its producers could not have foreseen when they began making it.
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Announced as Speakers at Cities Rising Summit

  • Michelle Ellia
  • August 23, 2020
Tom Tom Foundation announced James and Deborah Fallows are returning to the Cities Rising Summit for a session on Tuesday, September 29. The Summit is a six-week long series of virtual events exploring…
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Featured in Irish Examiner

  • Michelle Ellia
  • August 23, 2020
The Irish Examiner’s Michael Moynihan applied James and Deborah Fallows’s 11 signs of civic success to Cork in his August 20, 2020 editorial. He ends with the ‘big plans’ sign…
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Fallows to be Featured at Original Thinkers 2020

  • Michelle Ellia
  • August 23, 2020
The Telluride Daily Planet announced James and Deborah Fallows as featured presenters for Original Thinkers’s third annual conference scheduled for October 1 – 4, 2020. 
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Referenced in Akron Beacon Journal

  • Michelle Ellia
  • August 23, 2020
The Akron Beacon Journal’s August 23, 2020 editorial about the University of Akron’s strategy for moving forward references Our Towns’ reference to the importance of a research university in a town’s success.…
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Referenced in Bloomberg News

  • Michelle Ellia
  • August 14, 2020
In his August 14, 2020 column, BNN Bloomberg’s Noah Smith discusses America’s changing urban landscape. He posits that in order to be attractive places to live, suburbs will have to…
Sign that says "Welcome to Lemmon"
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  • Arts

The Artists of Lemmon, South Dakota

  • Deborah Fallows
  • August 13, 2020
The role of the arts in a tiny town with its sights set high
Almanac’s brewery and taphouse in Alameda, California, across the Bay from San Francisco.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

How a Small Brewery Can Survive COVID-19

  • James Fallows
  • August 10, 2020
A bellwether business category, figuring out how and whether it can survive.
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Referenced in Strong Towns

  • Michelle Ellia
  • August 9, 2020
In his August 7, 2020 column, Quint Studer discusses six ways communities can start making changes to attract and retain talent in an increasingly virtual working environment. One method he…
  • Governance

Another Lesson From the Roman Empire

  • James Fallows
  • August 7, 2020
From Sulla to Sullen: What the Fall of the Roman Republic Tells Us About Where Trump Is Taking Us.
Michael Jones, then of Google, speaking at an Atlantic event about the future of mapping several years ago.
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  • Local Journalism

Michael Jones Receives Royal Honors

  • James Fallows
  • August 2, 2020
Awarded the 2020 Patron's Medal for his contribution to the development of geospatial information.
Bent Paddle’s newly distanced outdoor seating.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

What happens to small companies now?

  • James Fallows
  • July 31, 2020
The path small, locally conscious firms are taking to survive the current economic and public health disaster.
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Featured in the Irish Examiner

  • Michelle Ellia
  • July 30, 2020
In his July 30, 2020 column in the Irish Examiner,  Michael Moynihan describes the Sculpture Walk in Sioux Falls, South Dakota noted in Our Towns. He exhorts Cork to create a similar…
A wall that displays shelves of Samuel Adams beer bottles.
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  • Breweries & Distilleries

Will Craft Brewing Survive?

  • James Fallows
  • July 27, 2020
Following up with breweries large and small around the country.

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