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Featured in Gaylord Herald Times
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…
‘Local, Local, Local’: How a Small Newspaper Survives
This is another road report on the state of local journalism, which is more and more important, and more and more imperiled.
It is important because so much of the future of American economic, cultural, and civic life is now being devised and determined at the local or state level.
The Gift of a Public Library
A legacy that continues.
Flying Down East
Headed back to Eastport
The Power of a Community College
Last week I reported on a conference of community-college leaders that Deb Fallows and I attended in Michigan, and about some of the reasons we’ve come to believe that community colleges are…
Interviewed on Arkansas Education Television Network
Barnes and a Conversation with…” in production for more than 20 years, is a cutting-edge current affairs program featuring conversations with a variety of prominent individuals from many interests and…
The Choices Facing Community Colleges
Decisions critical to the future of these institutions so crucial to this economic and political moment
A Public Library of, by, and for the People
A "how to" on staying relevant through invention and reinvention
Featured in Sioux Falls.Business
Sioux Falls.Business reports on the Fallowses recent return visit to the city with an HBO film crew to film a segment of their upcoming documentary on Our Towns. As an…
Referenced in Fair Observer
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…
How a City Talks About Itself: Sioux Falls
In June 2013, my husband, Jim, and I first landed our small, single-engine Cirrus propeller airplane at the main airport, Joe Foss Field, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It was the first…
Featured in The Christian Science Monitor
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…
Recommended Reading by The Presbyterian Outlook
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…
Featured in Nonprofit Quarterly
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…
Featured in the Elk Rapids News
Barb Mosher of the Elk Rapids News features Jim and Deb’s upcoming appearance in Elk Rapids, Michigan, July 25 at 5:30 p.m., sponsored by Green Elk Rapids. Said Royce Ragland,…