In her March 28, 2020 editorial, Shelley Smith references Our Towns as the inspiration behind the title of her column. “The Fallows visited countless smaller cities and towns where things were by no means perfect, yet where ‘a new America is being built- one that is innovative, compromise-minded, optimistic, and working toward practical solutions to the problems of this age,’ ” she reports. Smith is proposing a “Community Collaborative” to bring the counties and cities in the area together to partner on innovative methods to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger and more united.

Read the editorial here.