REPORTS FROM AMERICA
Parks, Rec & Fun
Welcome Marketplace Listeners, to American Futures
Kicking off a new collaborative project
Economic & Business Development
Welcome to Sioux Falls
A successful, energetic, rough-edged, and therefore typically American town
From the Readers
American Futures: Grand Finale Holland-Palooza
A small arena in which many dramas are being played out.
Economic & Business Development
The Next Lesson From Holland: Why Local Money Matters
In an age of globalized companies and relentless focus on "shareholder value," a reminder of what local ownership can mean.
Education
The Surprising News From One Small Town About Immigration Reform
In a place as unlike Miami, New York, or L.A. as you can imagine, America's unsettled immigration policy has a profound effect.
Parks, Rec & Fun
Today’s Frightening / Inspiring Aerial Videos
How fire-fighting looks from the tanker-pilots' point of view.
Reports From America
Rapid City Report:
What Does Green Mean?
Parks, Rec & Fun
If We’re Talking American Orientalism …
Read the story in The Atlantic here. Etching of the ominous country under discussion, above, by Janet Edwards of Redlands. … as I was doing previously here and here, I thought it would be worth going back to re-read Joan Didion’s 1966 Saturday Evening Post article that so offended my home town back when I was in high school and before Joan […]
Parks, Rec & Fun
A Theory of Mountain Flying
The safety virtues of multi-modal transportation.
Economic & Business Development
The ‘Rapid’ Story:
Trains, Planes, and the Making of a City
From the Readers
Readers on ‘American Orientalism’
Good thing I didn't mention snowmobiles.
Arts
On the ‘Orientalism’ of the Prairie
What happens when the "ordinary objects of our culture" are treated as curiosities.
Leaders & Governance
Notes From the Road: Drought, Politics
Politics as sport spills over into real life.
Parks, Rec & Fun
Life on the Road:
Beef Jerky, Swimming, and a Search for Spiritual Relief
Economic & Business Development
Holland: Where Things Go After the Recycling Bin
Holland makes, the world takes -- and Holland recycles too.
Parks, Rec & Fun
Giant Lawn Machinery Everywhere: This Actually Is a Thing
Industrialization increases productivity. Sort of.