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Deborah Fallows
November 13, 2019

Along the way of our reporting for American Futures and Our Towns, I ran into the stories of some remarkable women—living and dead. Eliza Tibbets, who planted the first navel oranges in California; Isabella Greenway,…

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Local Journalism

On the Virtues of Statewide Journalism

James Fallows
November 12, 2019

A few days ago I published an item about a year-old online effort to revive local news coverage in Tennessee, The Daily Memphian. It was part of an ongoing series about efforts to…

Mehmet McMillan, founder of WildPlaces, and Shelley Forbes, of Otis College, at the seedling-shipping ceremony last week.

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Trees

Planting a ‘Trail of Giants’

James Fallows
November 11, 2019

Last month, as part of a “Big Little Ideas” series, I mentioned a surprisingly valuable short-term step that communities can take, on their own, for positive climate effects. That is to start planting…

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Media

Deborah Fallows Featured on The Newsworthy Podcast

Shelli Stockton
November 8, 2019

The Thursday, November 7, 2019 The Newsworthy podcast episode features Deb Fallows speaking on “Why American Workers are Moving to Smaller Cities.” To listen, go to this link and advance…

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Press

Fallowses Keynote at Delaware Community Foundation

Shelli Stockton
November 8, 2019

James and Deborah Fallows presented the Delaware Community Foundation’s Building Opportunity Keynote in Wilmington on Nov. 6. “One of the things that touched us around the country was seeing people who decided to…

Justin Rushing, advertising director of the online news site The Daily Memphian.

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Local Institutions

In Memphis, A Lab Experiment for Local News

James Fallows
November 8, 2019

It’s time for another look at new financial, editorial, and technological models for local journalism. You’ll find previous entries at these links: from Mississippi; from Maine; from Massachusetts; from Southern California and the San Francisco…

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Economic Development

The Gem City Moves Forward

James Fallows
November 5, 2019

This is the first in a series of posts on the city of Dayton, Ohio. I’ve been there three times since August and am about to make another trip. Almost…

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Events

James and Deborah Fallows to Present Delaware Community Foundation Building Opportunity Keynote Nov. 6

Shelli Stockton
November 3, 2019

James and Deborah Fallows will present the 2019 Delaware Community Foundation Building Opportunity keynote address Wednesday, November 6, at the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington. The event also will be…

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Events

James Fallows Featured at CityLab DC

Shelli Stockton
November 3, 2019

James Fallows moderated a discussion at the CityLab DC summit on global cities on October 28, 2019. The discussion, with Sidewalk Labs’ Head of Urban Systems, Rohit Aggarwala, General Manager of LADOT,…

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Press

Referenced in Humanities Magazine

Michelle Ellia
October 29, 2019

In her feature in Humanities, The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Jennifer Howard describes libraries as one of the only, “truly public places left in America.” She…

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Press

Referenced in The Herald Republican

Michelle Ellia
October 29, 2019

Jim and Deb Fallows visited Angola, IN in April of 2019 for a project organized jointly by New America Indianapolis, and Indiana Humanities, as part of their new two-year-long INseparable program intended to foster conversations…

The Shawangunk Journal offices in Ellenville, New York. Backwards sign made by artist Roger Baker.

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Local Journalism

The New Approach to Local Journalism

James Fallows
October 27, 2019

Here’s another installment in the ongoing series on how local news operations, especially newspapers, can devise new ways to stay in business. For previous entries—from Mississippi, from Maine, from Massachusetts, from Southern California and the San…

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HBO Documentary

Featured in The Bulletin

Michelle Ellia
October 24, 2019

The Fallowses have been in Central Oregon filming a segment of their upcoming HBO documentary. Read the article in The Bulletin here.

City of Asylum houses on Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh

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Language

A River of Words in Pittsburgh

Deborah Fallows
October 21, 2019

As we've traveled around the country with our American Futures and Our Towns projects since 2013, my husband, Jim, and I have evolved from being skeptics to evangelists about the impact of public arts on communities.

"Traditionally, white gowns were for girls, blue for boys," Worth Robbins said of Harvard's high-school-graduation ceremony, pictured here in 2016. "For the past six years, seniors have voted to have the gowns distributed randomly. This year the seniors voted to have only blue gowns, a symbol of their propensity for knocking down differences and announcing themselves as a class of innovators and activists."

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Local Journalism

‘We’re Doing It for Love of Community’

James Fallows
October 16, 2019

Do local public-radio stations play an important role? In big cities, from Boston and Washington to San Francisco and L.A.? In small towns, like those across Mississippi or Alaska or…

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Trees

Start Planting Trees

James Fallows
October 13, 2019

Recently Deb Fallows kicked off a series of “Big Little Ideas”—innovations or reforms that could be applied fairly easily at the local level and that might have cumulatively very important effect.…