Michael Jones Receives Royal Honors
Awarded the 2020 Patron's Medal for his contribution to the development of geospatial information.
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What happens to small companies now?
The path small, locally conscious firms are taking to survive the current economic and public health disaster.
Featured in the Irish Examiner
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…
Will Craft Brewing Survive?
Following up with breweries large and small around the country.
Featured on Original Thinkers
Original Thinkers featured James and Deborah Fallows on their June 29, 2020 episode of “Original Thinkers Presents,” a series of conversations between Original Thinkers’s David Holbrook and past and future…
Featured on CBS This Morning
CBS This Morning featured James Fallows in a June 29, 2020 program segment reporting on the effects of the pandemic on small communities. Fallows, while acknowledging smaller towns may have…
The 3 Weeks That Changed Everything
Imagine if the National Transportation Safety Board investigated America's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Featured in Adirondack Daily Enterprise
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise featured a review of Our Towns in its June 25, 2020 publication. In recommending the book to leaders in four communities in the region who are recipients of…
Featured on Onward On Air with Jake Soberal
In his June 18, 2020 episode, Onward on Air host Jake Soberal spoke with James Fallows, along with Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockon and Joe Barela, Executive Director of the Colorado…
Featured by Chautauqua Institution
James and Deborah Fallows will be featured in the Chautauqua Institution’s June 3, 2020 ‘Watch Party’ at 10:45am EST. Originally presented at Chautauqua on July 4, 2018 as a part…
Featured in the Los Angeles Times
The daily headline newsletter of the June 1, 2020 Los Angeles Times features James Fallows’s recent Atlantic article “Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?” in the “What Our…
Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?
Comparing 2020 to 1968 offers some disquieting lessons for the present.
Featured in The Hill
In his May 27, 2020 editor’s note, The Hill’s Steve Clemons features Deborah Fallows’s recent post about the arts. The write-up accompanies his interview of National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet.…
‘This Is What We Train For’
During our five years of travel around the country, my husband Jim and I often found that artists who revealed the perspectives on their hometowns were the people who stopped us in our tracks.
Featured by University of Salamanca’s ‘Open Universe’
The University of Salamanca’s ‘Open Universe’ featured Deb Fallows’s recent post on how libraries are responding to serve their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. ‘Open Universe‘ is the Blog of the…
The Post-Pandemic Future of Libraries
"I've never been prouder to be a librarian."