Why Story Maps Matter
People understand the world through stories. People absorb their stories in ever-expanding ways. Here is a preview of a powerful, emerging form of digital story-telling, which we’ll be using frequently in this space.
Town: Dodge City
21 posts
Looking at Libraries
Continuing the photo essay about public libraries, which showed many examples of children’s rooms and adult spaces, this collection shows some of the multitude of activities happening at public libraries. It also…
The Gift of a Public Library
A legacy that continues.
The Choices Facing Community Colleges
Decisions critical to the future of these institutions so crucial to this economic and political moment
A Post-Election Field Report From America’s Refugees and Immigrants
Words and stories from the towns where the newest Americans live
Why Not Dodge? Why Not Stockton?
I mentioned yesterday that several local initiatives could mean as much to their communities or states as the outcome of most national races. The two historical examples I naturally think of are…
What the Renewable-Energy Economy Looks Like
At its peak, nearly one century ago in 1920, the coal-mining industry employed nearly 800,000 people in the United States. Decade by decade, as America’s population has swelled and its…
Refugees, Immigrants, and the Battle Over Who Is American
Deb Fallows has a new post up, about what’s actually involved in settling immigrants from Syria—or Somalia or Congo or Bhutan—in the American cities that have taken the lead in…
The Generational Difference in Optimism: A Video Look
Older People Moan, Younger People Hope
Is America in a Boiling Fury About Immigration?
Not the America I Have Seen
A Carnegie Legacy in Dodge City
Synergy of arts and civic life in a Kansas town
Dodge City Postcard
Notes from the ground, from the sky, and from the people of Dodge City, Kansas
What’s (Less) the Matter With Kansas
This week’s election news out of Kansas was the defeat in the GOP primaries of some of the hardest-line Tea Party Republicans, at both the Congressional and local- and state-legislative level. The…
Educating Migrant Children in Dodge City
"We're a port of entry 1,000 miles from the border."
A Different Kind of ‘Trump Nation’ Report
Western Kansas, where Deb and I have spent time over the past month, is the heart of Trump Nation in one sense: Trump and the GOP will almost certainly carry…
Dodge City’s New Frontier
A high school in the famed Kansas town is embracing its rapidly changing demographics.